Title: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the ability of a State to administer a permit program under that Act, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill allows a state department of transportation that has assumed the environmental review responsibilities of the federal Department of Transportation under the surface transportation project delivery program to apply to the Environmental Protection Agency to administer, for highway projects, an individual and general permit program for discharging dredge and fill material into navigable waters.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1050 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1050

   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the 
 ability of a State to administer a permit program under that Act, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 4, 2019

  Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Cruz, Ms. Murkowski, and 
 Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the 
 ability of a State to administer a permit program under that Act, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STATE ADMINISTRATION OF CERTAIN PERMITS UNDER FEDERAL WATER 
              POLLUTION CONTROL ACT.

    Section 404(g) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1344(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), in the second sentence, by striking 
        ``In addition, such State'' and inserting the following:
                    ``(B) Requirement.--In submitting a proposal to the 
                Administrator under subparagraph (A), the State'';
            (2) by striking the subsection designation and all that 
        follows through ``The Governor'' in the first sentence of 
        paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
    ``(g) State Administration.--
            ``(1) State permit program.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Governor''; and
            (3) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Applications by certain state departments of 
                transportation.--
                            ``(i) In general.--A State department of 
                        transportation that has assumed the 
                        responsibilities of the Secretary of 
                        Transportation under the National Environmental 
                        Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
                        under the surface transportation project 
                        delivery program under section 327 of title 23, 
                        United States Code, may apply to the 
                        Administrator to administer an individual and 
                        general permit program under subparagraph (A) 
                        with respect to highway projects subject to 
                        that assumption of responsibility.
                            ``(ii) Treatment.--For the purpose of this 
                        subsection, a reference to a State shall be 
                        deemed to include a State department of 
                        transportation described in clause (i).''.
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