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
Section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) is amended—
(1) in subsection (g)—
(A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
(3) If the Administrator determines that additional information is necessary for the description of a program submitted by a State to be full and complete under paragraph (1), the Administrator shall, not later than 45 days after the date of the receipt of the program and statement submitted by the State under such paragraph, submit to the State a written request for all such information.
; and
(2) in subsection (h)(1), by striking paragraph (1) of this subsection and inserting subsection (g)(1).