To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Federal responsibility for stormwater pollution.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to provide that reasonable service charges applicable to federal entities for water pollution include the same reasonable fees or assessments for stormwater management applicable to any nongovernmental entity. Provides that such a fee or assessment shall not be considered to be a tax or other levy subject to an assertion of sovereign immunity and may be paid using appropriated funds.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5724 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5724

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Federal 
                responsibility for stormwater pollution.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 13, 2010

   Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Moran of Virginia, and Ms. Giffords) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Federal 
                responsibility for stormwater pollution.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR STORMWATER POLLUTION.

    Section 313 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1323) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Federal Responsibility for Stormwater Pollution.--Reasonable 
service charges described in subsection (a) include reasonable fees or 
assessments made for the purpose of stormwater management in the same 
manner and to the same extent as any nongovernmental entity.
    ``(d) No Treatment as Tax or Levy.--A fee or assessment described 
in this section--
            ``(1) shall not be considered to be a tax or other levy 
        subject to an assertion of sovereign immunity; and
            ``(2) may be paid using appropriated funds.''.
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