S 912
109th Congress
Senate
Environmental Protection
Congress
Congressional powers
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
Wetlands
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2005
Introduced: April 27, 2005
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 28, 2006
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1531-1532)
Apr 27, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4400-4401)
Apr 27, 2005
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4399-4400)
Apr 27, 2005
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1531-1532)
Committees of jurisdiction
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