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Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act
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.
Summary
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to limit when the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator can prohibit or restrict the use of areas as disposal sites for dredged or fill material. Under the bill, the Administrator's authority to prohibit such disposal sites is restricted to the period between when an applicant submits a complete permit application and when the permit is issued by the Secretary. Once a permit is issued, the Administrator can no longer prohibit the disposal site. The amendments apply to permit applications submitted after the bill's enactment.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Stauber, Pete [R-MN-8] (R-MN)
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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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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