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Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2005

Introduced: March 17, 2005 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Mar 18, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Mar 17, 2005

Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Mar 17, 2005

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2005 - 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 March 18, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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