I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4044 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
National Estuary Program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 25, 2019 
Mr. MALINOWSKI (for himself, Mrs. FLETCHER, and Mr. GRAVES of Lou-
isiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reau-
thorize the National Estuary Program, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protect and Restore 
America’s Estuaries Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. 
Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘and Peconic Bay, New York’’ and inserting 
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‘‘Peconic Bay, New York; Casco Bay, Maine; Tampa Bay, 
Florida; Coastal Bend, Texas; San Juan Bay, Puerto 
Rico; Tillamook Bay, Oregon; Piscataqua Region, New 
Hampshire; Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Maryland Coastal 
Bays, Maryland; Charlotte Harbor, Florida; Mobile Bay, 
Alabama; Morro Bay, California; and Lower Columbia 
River, Oregon and Washington’’. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES OF CONFERENCE. 
Section 320(b)(4) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(b)(4)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘management plan that rec-
ommends’’ and inserting ‘‘management plan that— 
‘‘(A) recommends’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) addresses the effects of recurring ex-
treme weather events on the estuary, including 
the identification and assessment of vulnerabili-
ties in the estuary and the development and im-
plementation of adaptation strategies; and 
‘‘(C) increases public education and aware-
ness of the ecological health and water quality 
conditions of the estuary;’’. 
SEC. 4. MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE. 
Section 320(c)(5) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(c)(5)) is amended by insert-
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ing ‘‘nonprofit organizations,’’ after ‘‘educational institu-
tions,’’. 
SEC. 5. GRANTS. 
Section 320(g)(4)(C) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)(4)(C)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, emerging,’’ after ‘‘ur-
gent’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘or that relate to coastal 
resiliency’’ after ‘‘coastal areas’’; 
(2) by redesignating clauses (vi) and (vii) as 
clauses (viii) and (ix), respectively, and inserting 
after clause (v) the following: 
‘‘(vi) stormwater runoff; 
‘‘(vii) accelerated land loss;’’; and 
(3) in clause (viii), as so redesignated, by in-
serting ‘‘, extreme weather,’’ after ‘‘sea level rise’’. 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 320(i)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(i)(1)) is amended by striking 
‘‘$26,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 
through 2026’’. 
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