I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3927 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to general 
permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 11, 2025 
Mr. ROUZER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with 
respect to general permits for the discharge of dredged 
or fill material, 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 ‘‘Nationwide Permitting 
Improvement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONWIDE PERMITTING IMPROVEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 404(e) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) is amend-
ed— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘(e)(1) In carrying’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(e) GENERAL PERMITS ON STATE, REGIONAL, OR 
NATIONWIDE BASIS.— 
‘‘(1) PERMITS AUTHORIZED.—In carrying’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(2) No general’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(2) TERM.—No general’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘five years’’ and inserting 
‘‘ten years’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) CONSIDERATIONS.—In determining the en-
vironmental effects of an activity under paragraph 
(1) or (2), the Secretary— 
‘‘(A) shall consider only the effects of any 
discharge of dredged or fill material resulting 
from such activity; and 
‘‘(B) shall consider any effects of a dis-
charge of dredged or fill material into less than 
3 acres of navigable waters to be a minimal ad-
verse environmental effect. 
‘‘(4) NATIONWIDE PERMITS FOR LINEAR INFRA-
STRUCTURE PROJECTS.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of this section, the Secretary 
shall maintain general permits on a nationwide 
basis for linear infrastructure projects that re-
sult in a discharge of dredged or fill material 
into less than 3 acres of navigable waters for 
each single and complete project (as defined in 
section 330.2 of title 33, Code of Federal Regu-
lations (as in effect on the date of enactment of 
this paragraph)). 
‘‘(B) DEFINITION OF LINEAR INFRASTRUC-
TURE PROJECT.—In this paragraph, the term 
‘linear infrastructure project’ means a project 
to carry out any activity required for the con-
struction, expansion, maintenance, modification, 
or removal of infrastructure and associated fa-
cilities for the transmission from a point of ori-
gin to a terminal point of communications or 
electricity, or for the transportation from a 
point of origin to a terminal point of people, 
water, wastewater, carbon dioxide, or fuel or 
hydrocarbons (in the form of a liquid, liques-
cent, gaseous, or slurry substance or supercrit-
ical fluid), including oil and gas pipeline facili-
ties. 
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‘‘(5) REISSUANCE OF NATIONWIDE PERMITS.— 
In determining whether to reissue a general permit 
issued under this subsection on a nationwide basis— 
‘‘(A) no consultation with an applicable 
State pursuant to section 6(a) of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1535(a)) 
is required; 
‘‘(B) no consultation with a Federal agen-
cy pursuant to section 7(a)(2) of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) is required; and 
‘‘(C) the requirements of section 102(2)(C) 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) shall be satisfied 
by preparing an environmental assessment with 
respect to such general permit.’’. 
(b) REGULATORY REVISIONS REQUIRED.—The Sec-
retary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
shall expeditiously revise the regulations applicable to car-
rying out section 404(e) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) in order to streamline the 
processes for issuing general permits under such section 
to promote efficient and consistent implementation of such 
section. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONWIDE PERMIT PRO-
GRAM.—In carrying out section 404(e) of the Federal 
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Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344), including 
in revising regulations under subsection (b) of this section, 
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, may not finalize or implement any modification 
to— 
(1) general condition 15 (relating to single and 
complete projects), as included in the final rule titled 
‘‘Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide Per-
mits’’ and published on January 13, 2021, by the 
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (86 
Fed. Reg. 2868); 
(2) the definition of the term ‘‘single and com-
plete linear project’’, as included in such final rule 
(86 Fed. Reg. 2877); or 
(3) the definition of the term ‘‘single and com-
plete project’’, as included in section 330.2 of title 
33, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the 
date of enactment of this Act). 
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