Title: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 and revises the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
Under the existing program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must develop and fund projects to restore the ecological health of the basin, which is located in Louisiana and Mississippi. The bill requires the EPA to review and revise the basin's comprehensive conservation and management plan at least once every five years. In addition, the bill eliminates a statement of the basin's size.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1921 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1921

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
 Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2021

   Mr. Graves of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the 
 Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, 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. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN RESTORATION PROGRAM 
              REAUTHORIZATION.

    (a) Review of Comprehensive Management Plan.--Section 121 of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1273) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and 
                inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) ensure that the comprehensive conservation and 
        management plan approved for the Basin under section 320 is 
        reviewed and revised in accordance with section 320 not less 
        often than once every 5 years, beginning on the date of 
        enactment of this paragraph.''; and
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``recommended by a 
        management conference convened for the Basin under section 
        320'' and inserting ``identified in the comprehensive 
        conservation and management plan approved for the Basin under 
        section 320''.
    (b) Definitions.--Section 121(e)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1273(e)(1)) is amended by striking ``, a 5,000 
square mile''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 121(f) of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1273(f)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2001 through 2012 and 
        the amount appropriated for fiscal year 2009 for each of fiscal 
        years 2013 through 2017'' and inserting ``2022 through 2026''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Administrative expenses.--The Administrator may use 
        for administrative expenses not more than 5 percent of the 
        amounts appropriated to carry out this section.''.
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