HR 3935 — Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act

Summary

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to define the specific time period during which the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator may prohibit or restrict the use of areas as disposal sites for dredged or fill material.
Specifies that this period of prohibition or restriction begins when an applicant submits all required information to complete a permit application and ends when the permit is issued.
Applies to permit applications submitted under Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act after the date of enactment of this Act.

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Sponsor (1)

Rep. Stauber, Pete (R-MN) [#8]

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Pete Stauber’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

Employer not reported $92,343
KING CAPITAL CORPORATION $13,200
STRATA PRODUCTION COMPANY $9,100
ARVIG ENTERPRISES $8,871
HUBBARD BROADCASTING INC $8,641

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Actions (3)

Jun 13, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. · house
Jun 11, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. · house
Jun 11, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)

Introduced in House · Jun 11, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 11, 2025

Mr. Stauber introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

A BILL

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to the period during which areas may be prohibited from being specified as disposal sites for dredged or fill material, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act”.

SEC. 2. REDUCING PERMITTING UNCERTAINTY.

(a) In General.—Section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(c)) is amended—

(1) by striking “(c) The Administrator” and inserting the following:

“(c) Specification or Use of Defined Area.—

“(1) In general.—The Administrator”;

(2) in paragraph (1), as so designated, by inserting “during the period described in paragraph (2) and” before “after notice and opportunity for public hearings”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(2) Period of prohibition.—The period during which the Administrator may prohibit the specification (including the withdrawal of specification) of any defined area as a disposal site, or deny or restrict the use of any defined area for specification (including the withdrawal of specification) as a disposal site, under paragraph (1) shall—

“(A) begin on the date on which an applicant submits all the information required to complete an application for a permit under this section; and

“(B) end on the date on which the Secretary issues the permit.”.

(b) Applicability.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to a permit application submitted under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) after the date of enactment of this Act. <all>

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