Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2013

Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace a requirement that a permit be obtained for any discharge of dredged or fill material into the navigable waters incidental to any activity having as its purpose bringing an area of such waters into a use to which it was not previously subject and where the flow or circulation of such waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters may be reduced with a requirement that a permit be obtained for any such discharge that is not currently exempted from permit requirements.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2581 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2581

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to permit 
               requirements for dredged or fill material.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2013

   Mr. Hurt (for himself, Mr. Costa, and Mr. Michaud) 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 with respect to permit 
               requirements for dredged or fill material.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preserving Rural Resources Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. PERMITS FOR DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL.

    Section 404(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1344(f)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Except as provided in 
        paragraph (2) of this subsection, the discharge'' and inserting 
        ``The discharge''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``having as its purpose 
        bringing an area of the navigable waters into a use to which it 
        was not previously subject, where the flow or circulation of 
        navigable waters may be impaired or the reach of such waters be 
        reduced,'' and inserting ``having as its purpose bringing an 
        area into a use not described in paragraph (1)''.
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