HR 5194
107th Congress
House
Environmental Protection
Constitutional law
International Affairs
Lakes
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation
Rivers
Territorial waters
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Wetland conservation
Wetlands
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2002
Introduced: July 24, 2002
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 26, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Jul 24, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jul 24, 2002
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to replace the term "navigable waters," throughout the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Committees of jurisdiction
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