I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6745 
To prohibit implementation of a rule defining ‘‘waters of the United States’’ 
under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 8, 2020 
Mr. DEFAZIO (for himself and Mrs. NAPOLITANO) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infra-
structure 
A BILL 
To prohibit implementation of a rule defining ‘‘waters of 
the United States’’ under the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act, 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 ‘‘Clean Water for All 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are to— 
(1) reaffirm Congress’ commitment to ‘‘restore 
and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological 
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integrity of the Nation’s waters’’, as enacted 
through the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
Amendments of 1972, more commonly known as the 
Clean Water Act, by a 10-to-1 margin over the veto 
of President Richard M. Nixon; 
(2) overturn the Trump administration’s Dirty 
Water Rule, which eliminates Clean Water Act pro-
tections for countless rivers, streams, lakes, and wet-
lands that have been protected by the Clean Water 
Act for decades under regulations established by the 
Corps of Engineers under the Reagan administra-
tion in 1986, and implemented by Republican and 
Democratic administrations alike; and 
(3) restore bipartisan Clean Water Act protec-
tions over the Nation’s network of streams, lakes, 
rivers, and wetlands that are necessary for sus-
taining life, are critical to the economic and environ-
mental health of the Nation, and are essential for 
the well-being of farmers, small businesses, commu-
nities, and the Nation’s way of life. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Access to clean water is a fundamental 
right; it is necessary to sustain life and the economic 
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and environmental health and well-being of cities, 
towns, and communities. 
(2) Americans rely on the Nation’s network of 
streams and rivers, and the bodies of water into 
which they flow, for human and environmental 
health, as well as the economic health of cities, 
towns, and communities. 
(3) This network of streams and rivers, includ-
ing the intermittent and ephemeral streams that 
constitute more than two-thirds of all streams in the 
conterminous United States, feed the public drinking 
water systems of approximately 117 million Ameri-
cans. 
(4) The Environmental Protection Agency’s 
own comprehensive review of peer-reviewed scientific 
publications stated that ‘‘the scientific literature un-
equivocally demonstrates that streams, individually 
or cumulatively, exert a strong influence on the in-
tegrity of downstream waters’’ and that the connec-
tions between streams and downstream waters are 
critical to the health of downstream waters, includ-
ing where the upstream waters serve as the primary 
source of water for the downstream waters, and the 
myriad other chemical, physical, and biological con-
nections. 
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