I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4126 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve and 
reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 25, 2005 
Mr. GILCHREST (for himself, Mr. WYNN, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. 
CARDIN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. HOYER, Mrs. 
DRAKE, Mr. BARTLETT
of Maryland, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. 
HOLDEN, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. PLATTS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
TOM DAVIS of Virginia, and Mr. CASTLE) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
improve and reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay program. 
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 ‘‘Chesapeake Bay Res-
toration Enhancement Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 117(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1287(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘and its’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraphs: 
‘‘(7) 
CHESAPEAKE
BAY
WATERSHED.—The 
term ‘Chesapeake Bay watershed’ means the Chesa-
peake Bay and the area consisting of 36 tributary 
basins, within the States of Maryland, Virginia, 
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New 
York and the District of Columbia, through which 
precipitation drains into the Chesapeake Bay. 
‘‘(8) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
ADVISORY
COM-
MITTEE.—The term ‘Local Government Advisory 
Committee’ means the committee of the same name 
formed through the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agree-
ment. The committee may include representative 
members from all jurisdictions within the Chesa-
peake Bay watershed. 
‘‘(9) TRIBUTARY STRATEGY.—The term ‘tribu-
tary strategy’ means one of 36 strategies in the 
Chesapeake Bay watershed that is a State approved, 
river-specific, cleanup plan that provides best man-
agement practice implementation actions that, when 
taken together, will meet the Chesapeake Bay Agree-
ment goal of removing nutrient and sediment im-
pairments from the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal 
tributaries. 
‘‘(10) TRIBUTARY BASIN.—The term ‘tributary 
basin’ means an area of land that drains into any 
one of 36 Chesapeake Bay tributaries or tributary 
segments and that is managed through tributary 
strategies under this Act.’’. 
SEC. 3. IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING GRANTS. 
Section 117(e)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1287(e)(1)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘approved and committed to implement all or substan-
tially all aspects’’ and inserting ‘‘signed all or a significant 
portion’’. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING. 
Section 117 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1287) is amended by striking subsection 
(e)(7) and subsection (f) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(7) REPORTING.—The Administrator shall 
make available to the public on or before January 31 
of each year, a document that lists and describes, in 
the greatest practicable degree of detail, all com-
pleted projects and accomplishments of the previous 
fiscal year funded by the Federal Government, and 
all completed projects and accomplishments of the 
previous fiscal year funded by a State government,