Flood Control Facility Maintenance Clarification Act

Flood Control Facility Maintenance Clarification Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to: (1) include the removal of sediment, debris, and vegetation as "maintenance" of a currently serviceable structure for which the discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters at specified disposal sites is not prohibited; and (2) include a channel or basin as such a structure.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1296 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1296

     To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify a 
 maintenance exemption regarding the removal of sediment, debris, and 
                  vegetation from certain structures.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2013

 Mr. Gary G. Miller of California (for himself, Mr. Costa, Mr. Denham, 
and Mr. Rohrabacher) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify a 
 maintenance exemption regarding the removal of sediment, debris, and 
                  vegetation from certain structures.

    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 ``Flood Control Facility Maintenance 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMITS FOR DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL.

    Section 404(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (42 
U.S.C. 1344(f)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B) by inserting ``channels, basins,'' 
        after ``such as''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the term 
        `maintenance' includes the removal of sediment, debris, and 
        vegetation from structures described in that paragraph.''.
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