Stop Delta Tunnels Act

Stop Delta Tunnels Act

This bill prohibits the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from issuing a permit to discharge dredged or fill material into navigable waters for the proposed Delta Conveyance Project in California.

The California Department of Water Resources proposed this project, which involves constructing new State Water Project diversion and conveyance facilities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The proposal includes an underground tunnel to deliver water south of the delta.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8849 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8849

To prohibit the Corps of Engineers from issuing a permit for the Delta 
              Conveyance Project, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2022

Mr. Harder of California (for himself and Mr. Garamendi) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
                           and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Corps of Engineers from issuing a permit for the Delta 
              Conveyance Project, 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 ``Stop Delta Tunnels Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT PERMIT.

    The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
may not issue a permit under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) relating to the Delta Conveyance Project 
referred to in the document published by the California Department of 
Water Resources on January 15, 2020, entitled ``Notice of Preparation 
of Environmental Impact Report for the Delta Conveyance Project''.
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