H.R. 3898
PERMIT Act
Official summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service.
Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act or the PERMIT Act
This bill limits the scope of the Clean Water Act by redefining navigable waters to exclude (1) waste treatment systems, (2) ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation, (3) prior converted cropland, (4) groundwater, or (5) any other features determined to be excluded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Text of the bill
(a) Short title. This Act may be cited as the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act or the PERMIT Act.
(b) Table of contents. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Water quality standards attainability. Sec. 3. Water quality criteria development and transparency. Sec. 4. Water quality technology availability. Sec. 5. Improving water quality certifications and American energy infrastructure. Sec. 6. Clarifying Federal general permits. Sec. 7. NPDES permit terms. Sec. 8. Confidence in clean water permits. Sec. 9. Forest protection and wildland firefighter safety. Sec. 10. Agricultural stormwater discharge. Sec. 11. Reducing regulatory burdens. Sec. 12. Reducing permitting uncertainty. Sec. 13. Nationwide permitting improvement. Sec. 14. Deadline for request for submission of additional information for permit programs for dredged or fill material. Sec. 15. Judicial review timeline clarity. Sec. 16. Maintaining cooperative permitting. Sec. 17. Restoring federalism in clean water permitting. Sec. 18. Revision of framework for compensatory mitigation. Sec. 19. Jurisdictional determination backlog reduction. Sec. 20. Definition of navigable waters. Sec. 21. Applicability of Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule. Sec. 22. Coordination with Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council. Sec. 23. Sense of Congress on Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Sec. 24. Identification and permitting for water recharge on certain Federal lands. Sec. 25. State-led permitting efficiency and water quality pilot. Sec. 26. International Boundary and Water Commission authority.