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approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, right-of-way, 
or other land use or occupancy agreement. 
DEFINITION OF FILL MATERIAL 
SEC. 439. None of the funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act may be used by the Environmental 
Protection Agency to develop, adopt, implement, admin-
ister, or enforce any change to the regulations in effect 
on October 1, 2012, pertaining to the definitions of the 
terms ‘‘fill material’’ or ‘‘discharge of fill material’’ for the 
purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1251, et seq.). 
INVASIVE SPECIES 
SEC. 440. Of the amount appropriated by this Act 
or otherwise made available to the Department of the Inte-
rior and the Forest Service for programs that address or 
include invasive species, not more than 10 percent may 
be used for administrative costs incurred to carry out such 
programs, including costs related to oversight and man-
agement of such programs, recordkeeping, and strategic 
planning. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 441. None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be used to promulgate any rule that 
identifies, lists, or treats any material described in section 
261.4(a)(13), 261.4(a)(14), or 261.6(a)(3)(ii) of title 40, 
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Code of Federal Regulations as hazardous waste under 
subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 
6921 et seq.). 
WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY 
SEC. 442. (a) Section 6103(a) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to 
Washington’s Birthday and inserting the following: 
‘‘Washington’s Birthday, February 22.’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be-
come effective on February 22, 2017. 
WAGE GARNISHMENT 
SEC. 443. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Administrative Wage 
Garnishment’’ published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency in the Federal Register on July 2, 2014 (79 Fed. 
Reg. 37704 et seq.). 
USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 444. (a)(1) None of the funds made available 
by a drinking water treatment revolving loan fund as au-
thorized by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act 
(42 U.S.C. 300j–12) shall be used for a project for the 
construction, alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public 
water system or treatment works unless all of the iron and 
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steel products used in the project are produced in the 
United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, 
pipe clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, rein-
forced precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be incon-
sistent with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products pro-
duced in the United States will increase the cost of 
the overall project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiv-
er under this section, the Administrator shall make avail-
able to the public on an informal basis a copy of the re-
quest and information available to the Administrator con-
cerning the request, and shall allow for informal public 
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input on the request for at least 15 days prior to making 
a finding based on the request. The Administrator shall 
make the request and accompanying information available 
by electronic means, including on the official public Inter-
net Web site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out 
the provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for manage-
ment and oversight of the requirements of this section. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 445. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2015’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 412 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5171 
[Report No. 113–551] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior, environment, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, and 
for other purposes. 
JULY 23, 2014 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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