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 304(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1314(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting the commercial availability in the United States of the technology (including whether the technology has been demonstrated at an applicable scale), before and such other factors;
(2) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting the commercial availability in the United States of the technology (including whether the technology has been demonstrated at an applicable scale), before and such other factors; and
(3) in paragraph (4)(B), by inserting the commercial availability in the United States of the technology (including whether the technology has been demonstrated at an applicable scale), before and such other factors.