Clean Water Justice Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6616 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6616

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase certain 
                criminal fines, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2025

 Ms. Barragan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase certain 
                criminal fines, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Clean Water Justice Act''.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTIES.

    Section 309(c)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1319(c)(2)) is amended, in the matter following subparagraph 
(B)--
            (1) by striking ``$5,000'' and inserting ``$25,000 (subject 
        to adjustments under this paragraph)'';
            (2) by striking ``$50,000'' and inserting ``$250,000 
        (subject to adjustments under this paragraph)'';
            (3) by striking ``$100,000'' and inserting ``$500,000 
        (subject to adjustments under this paragraph)''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following: ``The Administrator 
        shall annually adjust the maximum penalties under this 
        paragraph by the percentage (if any) by which the Consumer 
        Price Index for all-urban consumers published by the Department 
        of Labor for the month of October preceding the date of the 
        adjustment exceeds such Consumer Price Index for the month of 
        October in the preceding year, and shall publish each such 
        adjustment in the Federal Register. An adjustment shall apply 
        only with regard to a violation committed after the date of 
        such publication.''.
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