[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 12, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S2367]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1694. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Rubio) proposed an amendment to the 
bill S. 50, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to give 
priority consideration to selecting Pensacola and Perdido Bays as an 
estuary of national significance, and for other purposes; as follows:

        Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Pensacola and Perdido Bays 
     Estuary of National Significance Act of 2024''.

     SEC. 2. PENSACOLA AND PERDIDO BAYS.

       Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
     Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``and 
     Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington'' and inserting 
     ``Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington; and Pensacola 
     and Perdido Bays, Florida''.

     SEC. 3. INELIGIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 
                   2025.

       With respect to the amendment made by section 2, the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not 
     use for the implementation of that amendment, including, with 
     respect to Pensacola and Perdido Bays, Florida, convening a 
     management conference, developing or carrying out a 
     comprehensive conservation and management plan, or providing 
     grants under section 320 of the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330)--
       (1) any amounts appropriated to carry out the national 
     estuary program under that section for fiscal year 2024; or
       (2) unless the total amount appropriated to carry out that 
     program for fiscal year 2025 is at least $850,000 more than 
     the total amount appropriated to carry out that program for 
     fiscal year 2023, any amounts appropriated to carry out that 
     program for fiscal year 2025.

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