Commonsense Permitting for Job Creation Act of 2015

Commonsense Permitting for Job Creation Act of 2015

This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to revise requirements for permit guidelines applicable to the designation of disposal sites for discharges of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States. Those guidelines may not prohibit the designation of a disposal site due to the lack of a final site plan because there is not an identified end user, industry, or industrial classification for the site.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3434 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3434

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to the 
 guidelines for specification of certain disposal sites for dredged or 
                             fill material.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2015

Mr. Hurt of Virginia (for himself, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
 Forbes, Mrs. Comstock, and Mr. Hanna) 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 the 
 guidelines for specification of certain disposal sites 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 ``Commonsense Permitting for Job 
Creation Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. GUIDELINES FOR SPECIFICATION OF CERTAIN DISPOSAL SITES.

    Section 404(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1344(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``Such guidelines may not prohibit the specification of a 
site due to the lack of a final site plan resulting from the lack of an 
identified end user or industry or industrial classification for the 
site when determining whether there is a practicable alternative to a 
proposed discharge that would result in less adverse impact on the 
aquatic ecosystem.''.
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