I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3897 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to the 
scope of permits, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 11, 2025 
Mr. TAYLOR 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 the scope of permits, 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 ‘‘Confidence in Clean 
Water Permits Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CONFIDENCE IN CLEAN WATER PERMITS. 
(a) COMPLIANCE WITH PERMITS.—Section 402(k) of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1342(k)) is amended— 
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(1) by striking ‘‘(k) Compliance with’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(k) COMPLIANCE WITH PERMITS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
compliance with’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) SCOPE.—For purposes of paragraph (1), 
compliance with the conditions of a permit issued 
under this section shall be considered compliance 
with respect to a discharge of— 
‘‘(A) any pollutant for which an effluent 
limitation is included in the permit; and 
‘‘(B) any pollutant for which an effluent 
limitation is not included in the permit that 
is— 
‘‘(i) specifically identified as controlled 
or monitored through indicator parameters 
in the permit, the fact sheet for the per-
mit, or the administrative record relating 
to the permit; 
‘‘(ii) specifically identified during the 
permit application process as present in 
discharges to which the permit will apply; 
or 
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‘‘(iii) whether or not specifically iden-
tified in the permit or during the permit 
application process— 
‘‘(I) 
present 
in 
any 
waste 
streams or processes of the point 
source to which the permit applies, 
which waste streams or processes are 
specifically identified during the per-
mit application process; or 
‘‘(II) otherwise within the scope 
of any operations of the point source 
to which the permit applies, which 
scope of operations is specifically iden-
tified during the permit application 
process.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Section 402(l)(3) of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1342(l)(3)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘section 402’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘this section’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘federal’’ and inserting 
‘‘Federal’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (C)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘Section’’ and inserting 
‘‘section’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘402(p)(6)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (p)(6)’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘402(l)(3)(A),’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘subparagraph (A),’’; and 
(D) by striking ‘‘402(l)(3)(A).’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘such subparagraph.’’. 
(c) EXPRESSION OF WATER QUALITY-BASED EFFLU-
ENT LIMITATIONS.—Section 402 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(t) EXPRESSION OF WATER QUALITY-BASED EF-
FLUENT LIMITATIONS.—If the Administrator (or a State, 
in the case of a permit program approved by the Adminis-
trator) determines that a water quality-based limitation 
on a discharge of a pollutant is necessary to include in 
a permit under this section in addition to any appropriate 
technology-based effluent limitations included in such per-
mit, the Administrator (or the State) may include such 
water quality-based limitation in such permit only in the 
form of a limitation that— 
‘‘(1) specifies the pollutant to which it applies; 
and 
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‘‘(2) clearly describes the manner in which com-
pliance with the limitation may be achieved, which 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) a numerical limit on the discharge of 
such pollutant; or 
‘‘(B) a narrative description of required ac-
tions (including any measures or practices re-
quired to be applied).’’. 
Æ 
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