H 4620 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE May 9, 1995

Mr. MCHALE, Mr. PICKETT, Mr. SKELTON, Mr.

ROHRABACHER, Mr. COX, Mr. LIVINGSTON, and

Mr. YOUNG of Florida.

H.R. 1458: Mr. HEFNER.

H.R. 1460: Mr. KING, Ms. BROWN of Florida,

Mr. HEFLEY, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MINGE, Mr.

ROYCE, Mr. UNDERWOOD, and Mr. SCHUMER.

H.R. 1468: Mr. HEFNER.

H.R. 1482: Mr. HEFNER.

H.R. 1487: Mr. WELLER, Mr. METCALF, Mr.

ROYCE, and Mr. BONO.

H.R. 1496: Mr. BARTON of Texas.

H.R. 1499: Mr. JACOBS, Mrs. SEASTRAND, Ms.

KAPTUR, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. STUPAK, Mr.

CANADY, Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin, Mr.

UPTON, Ms. LOFGREN, and Mr. NEY.

H.R. 1500: Ms. DELAURO, Mr. DIXON, Ms.

ESHOO, Mr. GORDON, Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts, and Mr. LIPINSKI.

H.R. 1512: Mrs. CHENOWETH.

H.R. 1516: Mr. MINGE and Mr. POSHARD.

H.R. 1522: Mr. STARK and Mr. LEWIS of

Georgia.

H.R. 1523: Mr. STARK and Mr. LEWIS of

Georgia.

H.R. 1524: Mr. STARK and Mr. LEWIS of

Georgia.

H.R. 1525: Mr. STARK and Mr. LEWIS of

Georgia.

H.R. 1533: Mr. BUYER, Mr. QUILLEN, Mr.

SENSENBRENNER, Mr. GEKAS, Mr. GOODLATTE,

Mr. FLANAGAN, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. HANCOCK, Mr.

HILLEARY, Mrs. MYRICK, and Mr. DUNCAN.

H.R. 1547: Mr. OLVER.

H.R. 1555: Mr. DEUTSCH.

H.R. 1559: Mr. BROWN of California, Mr.

FROST, Mr. KLECZKA, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. SMITH

of New Jersey, Mrs. SCHROEDER, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. SPRATT, and Mr. STARK.

H.R. 1560: Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. FROST, Mr.

DELLUMS, Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. MURTHA, and

Mr. SABO.

H.J. Res. 48: Mr. BARTON of Texas.

H.J. Res. 74: Mr. ROYCE and Mr. SOUDER.

H.J. Res. 79: Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. KANJORSKI,

Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. ROEMER, and

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN.

H. Con. Res. 21: Ms. LOWEY and Ms.

LOFGREN.

H. Con. Res. 25: Mr. SHAYS.

H. Con. Res. 35: Mr. MANTON.

H. Con. Res. 42: Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. TRAFICANT, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. KLINK,

Mr. SISISKY, Mr. MEEHAN, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr.

KENNEDY of Massachusetts, Mr. TORRES, and

Mr. BROWN of Ohio.

H. Con. Res. 45: Mr. PASTOR, Mr. EVANS,

Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO ́, Mr. CLINGER, and Mr.

ACKERMAN.

H. Con. Res. 50: Mr. SISISKY, Mr. FRANK of

Massachusetts, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. SCHUMER,

and Mr. MEEHAN.

H. Con. Res. 54: Mr. KLINK.

H. Con. Res. 63: Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr.

SCHUMER, Mr. ZIMMER, and Mr. JONES.

H. Con. Res. 64: Mr. TRAFICANT.

H. Res. 122: Mr. DEFAZIO and Mr. SERRANO.

H. Res. 124: Mr. ANDREWS, Ms. MCKINNEY,

and Mr. TORRES.

H. Res. 138: Mr. SHAYS, Mr. HERGER, Mr.

SMITH of Texas, and Mr. L

fARGENT.

DELETIONS OF SPONSORS FROM

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 4 of rule XXII, sponsors

were deleted from public bills and resolutions as follows:

H.R. 743: Mr. FATTAH.

H.J. Res. 87: Mr. S

fALMON.

PETITIONS, ETC.

Under clause 1 of rule XXII.

20. The SPEAKER presented a petition of

the Alexandria City Council, Alexandria, VA,

relative to welfare reform; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

AMENDMENTS

Undrr clause 6 of rule XXIII, proposed amendments were submitted as

follow:

H.R. 961

OFFERED BY: MR. BACHUS

AMENDMENT NO. 1: Page 146, line 21, after

the period insert the following:

At a minimum, the term ‘small business’

shall include a corporation, partnership, unincorporated business, and sole proprietorship employing 100 or fewer full time employees.

H.R. 961

OFFERED BY: MR. BACHUS

AMENDMENT NO. 2: Page 213, after line 5, insert the following:

SEC. 507. FEDERAL POWER ACT PART I

PROJECTS.

Section 511(a) (33 U.S.C. 1371(a)) is amended

by striking ‘‘, or (3)’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘; (3) applying to hydropower

projects within the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or its

successors under the authority of part I of

the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791 et seq.);

except that water quality certification, unless waived or denied, shall be issued for such

projects under section 401 and the water

quality conditions in those certifications

shall become conditions on project licenses

and except that any water quality certification conditions or denial issued under section 401 shall be limited to consideration of

narrative and numeric water quality criteria

adopted in water quality standards under

section 303 and such conditions shall not regulate, or such denial be based on, water use

or water quantities; or (4)’’.

Renumber subsequent sections of the bill

and conform the table of contents of the bill

accordingly.

H.R. 961

OFFERED BY: MR. BOEHLERT

AMENDMENT NO. 3: Page 239, strike line 3

and all that follows through line 22 on page

322 and insert the following:

TITLE VIII—WETLANDS CONSERVATION

AND MANAGEMENT

SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE.

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Wetlands

and Watershed Management Act of 1995’’.

SEC. 802. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds and declares

the following:

(1) Wetlands perform a number of valuable

functions needed to restore and maintain the

chemical, physical, and biological integrity

of the Nation’s waters, including—

(A) reducing pollutants (including nutrients, sediment, and toxics) from nonpoint

and point sources;

(B) storing, conveying, and purifying flood

and storm waters;

(C) reducing both bank erosion and wave

and storm damage to adjacent lands and

trapping sediment from upland sources;

(D) providing habitat and food sources for

a broad range of commercial and recreational fish, shellfish, and migratory wildlife species (including waterfowl and endangered species); and

(E) providing a broad range of recreational

values for canoeing, boating, birding, and nature study and observation.

(2) Original wetlands in the contiguous

United States have been reduced by an estimated 50 percent and continue to disappear

at a rate of 200,000 to 300,000 acres a year.

Many of these original wetlands have also

been altered or partially degraded, reducing

their ecological value.

(3) Wetlands are highly sensitive to

changes in water regimes and are, therefore,

susceptible to degradation by fills, drainage,

grading, water extractions, and other activities within their watersheds which affect the

quantity, quality, and flow of surface and

ground waters. Protection and management

of wetlands, therefore, should be integrated

with management of water systems on a watershed basis. A watershed protection and

management perspective is also needed to

understand and reverse the gradual, continued destruction of wetlands that occurs due

to cumulative impacts.

(4) Wetlands constitute an estimated 5 percent of the Nation’s surface area. Because

much of this land is in private ownership

wetlands protection and management strategies must take into consideration private

property rights and the need for economic

development and growth. This can be best

accomplished in the context of a cooperative

and coordinated Federal, State, and local

strategy for data gathering, planning, management, and restoration with an emphasis

on advance planning of wetlands in watershed contexts.

(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act

are—

(1) to help create a coordinated national

wetland management effort with efficient

use of scarce Federal, State, and local financial and manpower resources to protect wetland functions and values and reduce natural

hazard losses;

(2) to help reverse the trend of wetland loss

in a fair, efficient, and cost-effective manner;

(3) to reduce inconsistencies and duplication in Federal, State, and local wetland

management efforts and encourage integrated permitting at the Federal, State, and

local levels;

(4) to increase technical assistance, cooperative training, and educational opportunities

for States, local governments, and private

landowners;

(5) to help integrate wetland protection

and management with other water resource

management programs on a watershed basis

such as flood control, storm water management, allocation of water supply, protection

of fish and wildlife, and point and nonpoint

source pollution control;

(6) to increase regionalization of wetland

delineation and management policies within

a framework of national policies through advance planning of wetland areas, programmatic general permits and other approaches and the tailoring of policies to ecosystem and land use needs to reflect significant watershed variance in wetland resources;

(7) to address the cumulative loss of wetland resources;

(8) to increase the certainty and predictability of planning and regulatory policies

for private landowners;

(9) to help achieve no overall net loss and

net gain of the remaining wetland base of

the United States through watershed-based

restoration strategies involving all levels of

government;

(10) to restore and create wetlands in order

to increase the quality and quantity of the

wetland resources and by so doing to restore

and maintain the quality and quantity of the

waters of the United States; and

(11) to provide mechanisms for joint State,

Federal, and local development and testing

of approaches to better protect wetland resources such as mitigation banking.

SEC. 803. STATE, LOCAL, AND LANDOWNER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATIVE TRAINING.

(a) STATE AND LOCAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Upon request, the Administrator, or

the Secretary of the Army, as appropriate,

shall provide technical assistance to State

and local governments in the development

and implementation of State and local government permitting programs under sections