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(B) by adding at the end the following:

‘‘The notice under paragraph (1)(A) need set

forth only violations which have been specifically identified in the discharge monitoring reports of the alleged violator. An action by a State under subsection (a)(1) may

be brought at any time. No judicial action by

the Administrator or a State shall bar an action for the same violation under subsection

(a)(1) unless the action is by the Administrator and meets the requirements of this

paragrah. No administrative action by the

Administrator or a State shall bar a pending

action commenced after February 4, 1987, for

the same violation under subsection (a)(1)

unless the action by the Administrator or a

State meets the requirements of section

309(g)(6) of this Act.’’.

(4) CONSENT JUDGMENTS.—Section 505(c)(3)

is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Consent judgments entered under

this section may provide that the civil penalties included in the consent judgment be

used for carrying out mitigation projects in

accordance with section 309(d).’’.

(5) PRETREATMENT REQUIREMENTS.—Section

505(f)(4) is amended by striking ‘‘or

pretreatment standards’’ and inserting ‘‘or

pretreatment standard or requirement described in section 307(d)’’.

(6) EFFLUENT STANDARD DEFINITION.—Section 505(f)(6) is amended by inserting ‘‘narrative or mathematical’’ before ‘‘condition’’.

(7) DEFINITION OF CITIZEN.—Section 505(g) is

amended to read as follows:

‘‘(g) CITIZEN DEFINED.—For purposes of this

section, the term ‘citizen’ means a person or

persons having an interest (including a recreational, aesthetic, environmental, health,

or economic interest) which is, has been, or

may be adversely affected and includes a person who uses or enjoys the waters into which

the discharge flows (either directly or

through a publicly owned treatment works),

who uses or enjoys aquatic resources or nearby lands associated with the waters, or who

would use or enjoy the waters, aquatic resources, or nearby lands if they were less

polluted.’’.

(8) OFFERS OF JUDGMENT.—Section 505 is

further amended by adding at the end the

following:

‘‘(i) APPLICABILITY OF OFFERS OF JUDGMENT.—Offers of judgment pursuant to Rule

68 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

shall not be applicable to actions brought

under subsection (a)(1) of this section.’’.

(j) ISSUANCE OF SUBPOENAS.—Section

509(a)(1) (33 U.S.C. 1369(a)(1)) is amended by

striking ‘‘obtaining information under section 305 of this Act, or carrying out section

507(e) of this Act,’’ and inserting ‘‘carrying

out this Act,’’.

(k) JUDICIAL REVIEW OF EPA ACTIONS.—

Section 509(b)(1) (33 U.S.C. 1369(b)(1)) is

amended—

(1) by inserting after the comma at the end

of clause (D) ‘‘including a decision to deny a

petition by interested person to veto an individual permit issued by a State,’’;

(2) by inserting after the comma at the end

of clause (E) ‘‘including a decision not to include any pollutant in such effluent limitation or other limitation if the Administrator

has or is made aware of information indicating that such pollutant is present in any

discharge subject to such limitation,’’; and

(3) by striking ‘‘and (G)’’ and inserting the

following: ‘‘(G) in issuing or approving any

water quality standard under section 303(c)

or 303(d), (H) in issuing any water quality

criterion under section 304(a), including a decision not to address any effect of the pollutant subject to such criterion if the Administrator has or is made aware of information

indicating that such effect may occur, and

(J)’’.

(l) NATIONAL CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Title V (33 U.S.C. 1361–

1377) is amended by redesignating section 519

as section 522 and by inserting after section

518 the following new section:

‘‘SEC. 519. NATIONAL CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND.

‘‘(a) CREATION OF TRUST FUND.—There is

established in the Treasury of the United

States a trust fund to be known as the ‘Clean

Water Trust Fund’.

‘‘(b) TRANSFERS TO TRUST FUND.—There

are hereby appropriated to the Clean Water

Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the penalties collected under section 309 of this Act

and the penalties collected under section

505(a) of this Act (excluding any amounts ordered to be used to carry out mitigation

projects under section 309 or 505(a), as the

case may be).

‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST FUND.—The

Administrator shall administer the Clean

Water Trust Fund. The Administrator may

use moneys in the Fund to carry out inspections and enforcement activities pursuant to

this Act. In addition, the Administrator may

make such amounts of money in the Fund as

the Administrator determines appropriate

available to carry out title VI of this Act.’’.

(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO STATE REVOLVING FUND PROGRAM.—Section 607 (33

U.S.C. 1387) is amended—

(A) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before

‘‘There is’’; and

(B) by adding at the end the following:

‘‘(b) TREATMENT OF TRANSFERS FROM

CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND.—For purposes of

this title, amounts made available from the

Clean Water Trust Fund under section 519 of

this Act to carry out this title shall be treated as funds authorized to be appropriated to

carry out this title and as funds made available under this title.’’.

(m) APPLICABILITY.—Sections 101(h),

309(g)(6)(A), 505(a)(1), 505(b), 505(g), and 505(i)

of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,

as inserted or amended by this section, shall

be applicable to all cases pending under such

Act on the date of the enactment of this Act

and all cases brought on or after such date of

enactment relating to violations which occurred before such date of amendment.

Redesignate subsequent subsections of section 313 of the bill accordingly.

Page 81, line 4, strike ‘‘(h)’’ and insert

‘‘(k)’’.

Page 131, line 5, strike ‘‘(r)’’ and insert

‘‘(u)’’.

Page 188, line 21 strike ‘‘(s)’’ and insert

‘‘(v)’’.

Page 192, line 6, strike ‘‘(t)’’ and insert

‘‘(w)’’.

Page 216, line 11, strike ‘‘by’’ and all that

follows through ‘‘518’’ on line 13 and insert

‘‘by inserting after section 519’’.

Page 216, line 14, strike ‘‘519’’ and insert

‘‘520’’.

Page 217, line 7, strike ‘‘before’’ and all

that follows through the comma on line 8

and insert ‘‘after section 520’’.

Page 217, line 9, strike ‘‘520’’ and insert

‘‘521’’.

Page 321, line 3, strike ‘‘(8)’’ and insert

‘‘(7)’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 106 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 299

T64.24 [Roll No. 324]

AYES—106

Ackerman

Andrews

Becerra

Beilenson

Berman

Bonior

Borski

Brown (CA)

Brown (OH)

Bryant (TX)

Clay

Clayton

Clyburn

Coleman

Conyers

Coyne

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Dixon

Doggett

Durbin

Engel

Eshoo

Evans

Fields (LA)

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Forbes

Ford

Fox

Frank (MA)

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Gibbons

Gonzalez

Green

Gutierrez

Hastings (FL)

Hinchey

Jackson-Lee

Johnson, E. B.

Johnston

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kildee

Lantos

Lewis (GA)

Lofgren

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Markey

Martinez

McDermott

McHale

McKinney

Menendez

Mineta

Moran

Nadler

Oberstar

Olver

Owens

Pallone

Payne (NJ)

Pelosi

Rahall

Reynolds

Rivers

Roukema

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sanders

Saxton

Schroeder

Scott

Serrano

Shays

Slaughter

Smith (NJ)

Stark

Stokes

Studds

Thompson

Thornton

Torricelli

Towns

Tucker

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

NOES—299

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Bass

Bateman

Bentsen

Bereuter

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Brewster

Browder

Brown (FL)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clement

Clinger

Coble

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Cooley

Costello

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeLay

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dingell

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Edwards

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Ensign

Everett

Ewing

Farr

Fawell

Fazio

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Fowler

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Goss

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (OH)

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Hefner

Heineman

Herger

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Horn

Hostettler

Houghton

Hoyer

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Istook

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kanjorski

Kasich

Kelly

Kennelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Klink

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaFalce

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Laughlin

Lazio

Leach

Levin

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Lipinski

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

Lucas

Manton

Manzullo

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHugh

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

McNulty

Meehan

Metcalf

Meyers

Mfume

Mica

Miller (FL)

Minge

Molinari

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moorhead

Morella

Murtha

Myers

Myrick

Neal

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Obey

Orton

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Paxon

Payne (VA)

Peterson (MN)

Petri
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Pickett

Pombo

Pomeroy

Porter

Portman

Poshard

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Ramstad

Reed

Regula

Riggs

Roberts

Roemer

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roth

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Sawyer

Scarborough

Schaefer

Schiff

Seastrand

Sensenbrenner

Shadegg

Shaw

Shuster

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skeen

Skelton

Smith (MI)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Spratt

Stearns

Stenholm

Stockman

Stump

Stupak

Talent

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thomas

Thornberry

Thurman

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Traficant

Upton

Volkmer

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Whitfield

Wicker

Williams

Wilson

Wise

Wolf

Young (AK)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—29

Abercrombie

Barton

Bono

Boucher

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Dicks

Dunn

Fattah

Frisa

Hancock

Kleczka

Martini

Meek

Miller (CA)

Mink

Moakley

Nussle

Ortiz

Pastor

Peterson (FL)

Rangel

Richardson

Rogers

Schumer

Tanner

Torres

Watts (OK)

Young (FL)

So the amendment was not agreed to.

After some further time,

T64.25 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. VISCLOSKY:

Page 82, after line 21, insert the following:

(c) NATIONAL CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND.—

Section 309 (33 U.S.C. 1319) is further amended by adding at the end the following:

‘‘(i) NATIONAL CLEAN WATER TRUST FUND.—

‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established

in the Treasury a National Clean Water

Trust Fund (hereinafter in this subsection

referred to as the ‘Fund’) consisting of

amounts transferred to the Fund under paragraph (2) and amounts credited to the Fund

under paragraph (3).

‘‘(2) TRANSFER OF AMOUNTS.—For fiscal

year 1996, and each fiscal year thereafter, the

Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer, to

the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts, to the fund an amount determined by the Secretary to be equal to the

total amount deposited in the general fund

of the Treasury in the preceding fiscal year

from fines, penalties, and other moneys obtained through enforcement actions conducted pursuant to this section and section

505(a)(1), including moneys obtained under

consent decrees and excluding any amounts

ordered to be used to carry out mitigation

projects under this section or section 505(a),

as the case may be.

‘‘(3) INVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest in interest-bearing obligations of the United States

such portion of the Fund as is not, in the

Secretary’s judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such obligations shall be

acquired and sold and interest on, and the

proceeds from the dale or redemption of,

such obligations shall be credited to the

Fund in accordance with the requirements of

section 9602 of the Internal Revenue Code of

1986.

‘‘(4) USE OF AMOUNTS FOR REMEDIAL

PROJECTS.—Amounts in the Fund shall be

available, as provided in appropriations Acts,

to the Administrator to carry out projects to

restore and recover waters of the United

States from damages resulting from violations of this Act which are subject to enforcement actions under this section and

similar damages resulting from the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the

United States.

‘‘(5) SELECTION OF PROJECTS.—

‘‘(A) PRIORITY.—In selecting projects to

carry out under this subsection, the Administrator shall give priority to a project to restore and recover waters of the United

States from damages described in paragraph

(4), if an enforcement action conducted pursuant to this section or section 505(a)(1)

against such violation, or another violation

in the same administrative region of the Environmental Protection Agency as such violation, resulted in amounts being deposited

in the general fund of the Treasury.

‘‘(B) CONSULTATION WITH STATES.—In selecting projects to carry out under this section, the Administrator shall consult with

States in which the Administrator is considering carrying out a project.

‘‘(C) ALLOCATION OF AMOUNTS.—In determining an amount to allocate to carry out a

project to restore and recover waters of the

United States from damages described in

paragraph (4), the Administrator shall, in

the case of a priority project under subparagraph (A), take into account the total

amount deposited in the general fund of the

Treasury as a result of enforcement actions

conducted with respect to such violation

pursuant to this section or section 505(a)(1).

‘‘(6) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Administrator

may carry out a project under this subsection either directly or by making grants

to, or entering into contracts with, the Secretary of the Army or any other public or

private entity.

‘‘(7) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1

year after the date of the enactment of this

subsection, and every 2 years thereafter, the

Administrator shall transmit to Congress a

report on implementation of this subsection.’’.

‘‘(d) USE OF CIVIL PENALTIES FOR MITIGATION PROJECTS.—

‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 309(d) (33 U.S.C.

1319(d)) is amended by inserting after the

second sentence the following: ‘‘The court

may, in the court’s discretion, order that a

civil penalty be used for carrying out mitigation projects which are consistent with the

purposes of this Act and which enhance the

public health or environment.’’.

‘‘(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section

505(a) (33 U.S.C. 1365(a)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the

last sentence the following: ‘‘, including ordering the use of a civil penalty for carrying

out mitigation projects in accordance with

section 309(d)’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 156 ! negative ....................... Nays ...... 247

T64.26 [Roll No. 325]

AYES—156

Abercrombie

Andrews

Barcia

Becerra

Beilenson

Berman

Boehlert

Bonior

Borski

Brown (CA)

Brown (OH)

Burr

Castle

Clay

Clement

Clyburn

Condit

Conyers

Costello

Coyne

DeFazio

DeLauro

Dellums

Deutsch

Dicks

Dingell

Dixon

Doggett

Dooley

Durbin

Ehlers

Engel

Ensign

Eshoo

Evans

Farr

Fawell

Fazio

Fields (LA)

Filner

Flake

Foglietta

Forbes

Ford

Fox

Frank (MA)

Frost

Furse

Gejdenson

Gephardt

Gibbons

Gilchrest

Gilman

Gonzalez

Gordon

Green

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutierrez

Hall (OH)

Hastings (FL)

Heineman

Hinchey

Horn

Hoyer

Jackson-Lee

Jacobs

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson (SD)

Johnson, E. B.

Kaptur

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kildee

Klink

Lantos

Lewis (GA)

Lincoln

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Lowey

Luther

Maloney

Manton

Markey

Martinez

McDermott

McHale

McKinney

Meehan

Menendez

Metcalf

Mineta

Mink

Moran

Morella

Nadler

Neal

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Owens

Pallone

Payne (NJ)

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (MN)

Pomeroy

Porter

Portman

Poshard

Rahall

Ramstad

Rangel

Reed

Reynolds

Richardson

Roybal-Allard

Rush

Sabo

Sawyer

Saxton

Schroeder

Serrano

Sisisky

Skaggs

Slaughter

Smith (NJ)

Souder

Spratt

Stark

Stokes

Studds

Stupak

Thompson

Torricelli

Towns

Traficant

Tucker

Upton

Velazquez

Vento

Visclosky

Ward

Waters

Watt (NC)

Waxman

Weldon (PA)

Wise

Woolsey

Wyden

Wynn

Yates

Zimmer

NOES—247

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Bass

Bateman

Bentsen

Bereuter

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehner

Bonilla

Brewster

Browder

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Bunning

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clayton

Clinger

Coble

Coburn

Coleman

Collins (GA)

Combest

Cooley

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeLay

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Doolittle

Dornan

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Edwards

Ehrlich

Emerson

English

Everett

Ewing

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Fowler

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Gekas

Geren

Gillmor

Goodlatte

Goodling

Goss

Graham

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hansen

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Hefner

Herger

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hobson

Hoekstra

Hoke

Holden

Hostettler

Houghton

Hunter

Hutchinson

Hyde

Inglis

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kanjorski

Kasich

Kelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Kleczka

Klug

Knollenberg

Kolbe

LaFalce

LaHood

Largent

Latham

LaTourette

Laughlin

Lazio

Leach

Levin

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (KY)

Lightfoot

Linder

Livingston

Lofgren

Longley

Lucas

Manzullo

Martini

Mascara

Matsui

McCarthy

McCollum

McCrery

McDade

McHugh

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

Meyers

Mica

Miller (FL)

Minge

Molinari

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moorhead

Murtha

Myers

Myrick

Nethercutt

Neumann

Ney

Norwood

Nussle

Orton

Oxley

Packard

Parker

Paxon

Petri

Pickett

Pombo

Pryce

Quillen

Quinn

Radanovich

Regula

Riggs

Rivers

Roberts

Roemer

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Rose

Roth

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Scarborough

Schaefer

Schiff