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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.

1245297600 2009-06-18 Wed Jan 06 07:23:50 -0600 2010 introduced 56623 'act':4 'clean':1 'water':2 'restor':3 71990 false short introduced 56623 'act':10 'bill':2 'unit':17,23 'amend':4 'feder':6 'state':18,24 'water':7,20 'pollut':8 'clarifi':12 'control':9 'jurisdict':14 71342 false official calendar 56623 1245297600 Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0500 2009 200018 Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. F000061 1953-03-02 3909 506 Hart Senate Office Building http://feingold.senate.gov/contact_opinion.html 202-224-2725 Russell 'd':4 'wi':5 'sen':1 'russel':2,6,8 'feingold':3,7,9 M 300042 Feingold Russell_Feingold D. Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI] 1471 N00000036 16377 Democrat 202-224-5323 Jewish WI Russell Feingold 5.38686131386861 http://feingold.senate.gov SenRussFeingold calendar 56623 1245297600 Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0500 2009 200018 Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. action 56623 1238644800 Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0500 2009 190601 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. action 56623 1238644800 Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0500 2009 190600 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4317-4318) introduced 56623 1238644800 Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0500 2009 190599