Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015
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Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015
This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define the period of time in which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to restrict or deny a permit for the discharge of dredged or fill materials into navigable waters as the period that:
- begins on the date that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes a notice for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at specified disposal sites, and
- ends on the date that the Army Corps issues the permit.
The EPA must make all the information and data that it reviewed in making a determination publicly available.
The EPA's authority to withdraw a specification of a defined area as a disposal site for the discharge of dredged or fill materials is eliminated.
Any previous action by the EPA that occurred outside of this period to deny or restrict a permit or to prohibit the specification of any defined area as a disposal site is nullified.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 234: Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-234/
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