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Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003

Introduced: February 27, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Feb 27, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2928-2929)
Feb 27, 2003
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2927-2928)
Feb 27, 2003
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003 - 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 February 27, 2003

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2928-2929)

 Related & companion bills 2
  • HR 4843 Related bill Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction Act of 2004
  • HR 962 Identical bill Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 4
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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Mar 4, 2004
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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Nov 6, 2003
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Reed, Jack
Rhode Island · Sep 4, 2003
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Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Apr 29, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 473: Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-473/
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"S. 473: Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-473/.
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S. 473, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-473/.
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