U.S. Congress - S.787 Clean Water Restoration Act
S.787 - Clean Water Restoration Act
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Clean Water Restoration Act as introduced.
- Official: A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States. as introduced.
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4/2/2009--Introduced.Clean Water Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters" that are subject to such 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. Declares that nothing in such Act affects the authority of the Secretary of the Army or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provisions of the Clean Water Act related to discharges:(1) composed entirely of return flows from irrigated agriculture;
(2) of stormwater runoff from certain oil, gas, and mining operations composed entirely of flows from precipitation runoff conveyances, which are not contaminated by or in contact with specified materials;
(3) of dredged or fill materials resulting from normal farming, silviculture, and ranching activities, from upland soil and water conservation practices, or from activities with respect to which a state has an approved water quality regulatory program; or
(4) of dredged or fill materials for the maintenance of currently serviceable structures, the construction or maintenance of farm or stock ponds, irrigation ditches and maintenance of drainage ditches, or farm, forest, or temporary roads for moving mining equipment in accordance with best management practices, or the construction of temporary sedimentation basins on construction sites for which discharges do not include placement of fill material into the waters of the United States.
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Congress Wants Your Water and Your Land
...the Marxists in Washington are working up a way to be able to wrest control of that land from you. Allow me to introduce you to S.787: Clean Water Restoration Act; submitted to the U.S Senate in April of this year. This wonderful piece of government f
Updating the Clean Water Act: Potential for broader regulation?
...clean up some of the worst pollution excesses of previous decades (including a river so badly contaminated it caught fire), a bill (S.787) that would broaden its scope has caused worries in the farm community. The sticking point centers on the removal o
Updating the Clean Water Act
...some of the worst pollution excesses of previous decades (including a river so badly contaminated that it caught fire), a bill (S.787) that would broaden its scope has caused worries in the farm community. The sticking point centers on the removal of th
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Why America Will Fail - The Conclusion | RuggedNews.com
S.787 Clean Water Restoration Act : Federal takeover of all water in the US. S.909 Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act : Same as HR1913. S.1261 PASS ID Act : REAL ID under another name. ...
Senator Merkley Responds: Clean Water Restoration Act (S.787)
Dear Jadene, Thank you for contacting me to share your support for the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009 (S.787). You will be pleased to know that I am an original cosponsor of this important legislation. ...
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On the national front the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009, (S. 787) , will treat, as 'waters of the United States', those features that were treated as such pursuant to the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency and the ...
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