Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3935 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3935

 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.


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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

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                                 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.
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