IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 797 
Encouraging the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain and strength-
en requirements under the Clean Water Act and reverse ongoing adminis-
trative actions to weaken this landmark law and protections for United 
States waters. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 14, 2020 
Mrs. DINGELL (for herself, Mr. PAPPAS, Ms. NORTON, Ms. KUSTER of New 
Hampshire, Mr. ROUDA, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. 
ESPAILLAT, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. MOORE, Mr. MORELLE, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 
GARCI´A of Illinois, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. LIPINSKI, Ms. BLUNT ROCH-
ESTER, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CASTEN 
of Illinois, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. 
HAYES, Mr. COHEN, Ms. HAALAND, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. PIN-
GREE, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. CASTOR
of Florida, Ms. 
BROWNLEY of California, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. SOTO, Mr. BLUMENAUER, 
Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. POCAN, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Ms. SLOTKIN, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. CARSON 
of Indiana, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. CASE, Mr. LAR-
SEN of Washington, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. HAS-
TINGS, Mr. NEAL, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. COO-
PER, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. 
STEVENS, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. NADLER, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. 
SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. PRICE of North 
Carolina, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. SIRES, Mr. BROWN of Maryland, Ms. 
WILD, Ms. WEXTON, Mrs. TRAHAN, Ms. MUCARSEL-POWELL, and Ms. 
MENG) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 
RESOLUTION 
Encouraging the Environmental Protection Agency to main-
tain and strengthen requirements under the Clean Water 
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•HRES 797 IH 
Act and reverse ongoing administrative actions to weaken 
this landmark law and protections for United States 
waters. 
Whereas access to clean water is a fundamental human right; 
Whereas the Federal Water Pollution Control Act was en-
acted into law in 1948; 
Whereas the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amend-
ments of 1972 were enacted with bipartisan support and 
significantly reorganized and expanded the law, from 
then on commonly known as the Clean Water Act; 
Whereas the Clean Water Act is one of the most important 
laws in the United States and the Nation’s principal safe-
guard against unregulated pollution or destruction of 
United States surface waters; 
Whereas the Clean Water Act’s objective is to ‘‘restore and 
maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity 
of the Nation’s waters’’, and it declared national goals of 
eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the waters of 
the United States by 1985 and, wherever attainable, en-
suring that waters were fishable and swimmable by 1983; 
Whereas the Clean Water Act provides strong and com-
prehensive requirements for the control of pollutants in 
the Nation’s waters; 
Whereas the Clean Water Act authorizes Federal financial 
assistance for building and upgrading municipal sewage 
treatment plants and other types of water quality im-
provements projects; 
Whereas rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, and other 
waters have enormous public health, community welfare, 
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