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Columbia River Clean-Up Act of 2025

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Columbia River Basin Restoration program, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 23, 2025

Latest action (Jul 23, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Referred to
Environment and Public Works Committee
Policy area
Environmental Protection
Issues
Climate & Energy

Summary

This bill would extend the authorization for the Columbia River Basin Restoration program, which was set to expire after 2021, through fiscal years 2026 to 2030 under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 23, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. · senate
  2. Jul 23, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 4675 — Columbia River Clean-Up Act · Introduced Jul 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 88%
  • S 2388 — Water Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • S 252 — Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2001 · Introduced Feb 28, 2002 · Cong. 107 76%
  • S 2421 — CLEAR Waters Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • S 795 — Farmers Freedom Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • S 2272 — Tribal Access to Clean Water Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 23, 2025

Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Wyden, and Mrs. Murray) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

A BILL

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Columbia River Basin Restoration program, 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 “Columbia River Clean-Up Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN RESTORATION.

Section 123(d)(6) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1275(d)(6)) is amended by striking “2020 and 2021” and inserting “2026 through 2030”. <all>

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