EPA Fair Play Act

EPA Fair Play Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to remove the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification, or restrict the use, of an area as a disposal site for discharges of dredged or fill materials into waters of the United States once the Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for the discharge.

Makes this Act effective as of October 18, 1972.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 830 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 830

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify and confirm 
    the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to deny or 
 restrict the use of defined areas as disposal sites for the discharge 
                      of dredged or fill material.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 25, 2013

 Mr. Manchin (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Hoeven, 
  Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Portman, and Mr. Vitter) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify and confirm 
    the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to deny or 
 restrict the use of defined areas as disposal sites for the discharge 
                      of 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 ``EPA Fair Play Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMITS FOR DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL.

    (a) In General.--Section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(c)) is amended in the first sentence by 
striking ``The Administrator'' and inserting ``Until such time as a 
permit under this section has been issued by the Secretary, the 
Administrator''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) takes 
effect on October 18, 1972.
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