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1 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. AMENDMENT NO.llll Purpose: To provide a complete substitute. Calendar No.lll IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES th Cong., st Sess. S. To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States. Referred to the Committee on llllllllll and ordered to be printed Ordered to lie on the table and to be printed AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE intended to be proposed by llllllllll Viz: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Clean Water Restoration Act. SEC.. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are () to reaffirm the original intent of Congress in enacting the Federal Water Pollution Control Act

2 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 0 Amendments of (Public Law 00; Stat. ) to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters of the United States; and () to clearly define the waters of the United States that are subject to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( U.S.C. et seq.) as those features that were treated as such on January, 00, pursuant to the final rule (including the preamble to that final rule) published at Fed. Reg. 0 (November, ), as in effect on January, 00. SEC.. FINDING. Section 0 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( U.S.C. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) FINDINGS. Congress finds that () the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. (January, 00) and Rapanos v. United States, U.S. (June, 00), adopted an overly constrained interpretation of the intent of Congress with respect to the scope of jurisdiction of this Act; and

3 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 0 () the intent of Congress is more closely reflected by the regulatory definition of the term waters of the United States under the final rule (including the preamble to that final rule) published at Fed. Reg. 0 (November, ), as in effect on January, 00.. SEC.. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. Section 0 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( U.S.C. ) is amended () by striking paragraph (); () by redesignating paragraphs () through () as paragraphs () through (), respectively; and () by adding at the end the following: () WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES. (A) IN GENERAL. The term waters of the United States means (i) all waters which are currently used, were used in the past, or may be susceptible to use in interstate or foreign commerce, including all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide; (ii) all interstate waters including interstate wetlands;

4 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 0 (iii) all other waters, such as intrastate lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds, the use, degradation, or destruction of which would or could affect interstate or foreign commerce, including any such waters (I) which are or could be used by interstate or foreign travelers for recreational or other purposes; (II) from which fish or shellfish are or could be taken and sold in interstate or foreign commerce; or (III) which are used or could be used for industrial purposes by industries in interstate commerce; (iv) all impoundments of waters otherwise defined as waters of the United States under this definition; (v) tributaries of waters identified in clauses (i) through (iv) of this definition; (vi) the territorial sea; and

5 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 0 (vii) wetlands adjacent to waters (other than waters that are themselves wetlands) identified in clauses (i) through (vi) of this definition. (B) WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEMS. Waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons designed to meet the requirements of this Act (other than cooling ponds as defined in section.(m) of title 0, Code of Federal Regulations, which also meet the criteria of this definition) are not waters of the United States. This exclusion applies only to manmade bodies of water which neither were originally created in waters of the United States (such as disposal area in wetlands) nor resulted from the impoundment of waters of the United States. (C) PRIOR CONVERTED CROPLAND. Waters of the United States do not include prior converted cropland. Notwithstanding the determination of an area s status as prior converted cropland by any other federal agency, for the purposes of this Act, the final authority regarding jurisdiction under this Act remains with the Environmental Protection Agency..

6 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 0 SEC.. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( U.S.C. et seq.) is amended () by striking navigable waters of the United States each place it appears and inserting waters of the United States ; () in section 0(l)() by striking NAVIGABLE WATERS in the heading and inserting WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES ; and () by striking navigable waters each place it appears and inserting waters of the United States. SEC.. SAVINGS CLAUSE. Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) affects the applicability of the following provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: () Section 0(l)() ( U.S.C. (l)()). () Section 0(l)() ( U.S.C. (l)()). () Section 0(f)()(A) ( U.S.C. (f)()(a)). () Section 0(f)()(B) ( U.S.C. (f)()(b)). () Section 0(f)()(C) ( U.S.C. (f)()(c)). () Section 0(f)()(D) ( U.S.C. (f)()(d)).

7 O:\DEC\DEC0.xml DISCUSSION DRAFT S.L.C. 0 () Section 0(f)()(E) ( U.S.C. (f)()(e)). () Section 0(f)()(F) ( U.S.C. (f)()(f)). SEC.. REGULATIONS. Not later than 0 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the Army shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to implement this Act and the amendments made by this Act.

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