S 272
112th Congress
Senate
Environmental Protection
Administrative remedies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Licensing and registrations
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Solid waste and recycling
Water quality
EPA Fair Play Act
Introduced: February 3, 2011
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 3, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Feb 3, 2011
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
EPA Fair Play Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to remove the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification of any defined area as a disposal site for discharges of materials into waters of the United States, or to restrict the use of any defined area for specification as a disposal site, once the Secretary of the Army has issued a permit for dredged or fill material.
Makes this Act effective as of October 18, 1972.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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