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 402(l)(3)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342(l)(3)(A)) is amended—
(1) by striking for a discharge from and inserting the following:
for—
(i) a discharge from
(2) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(ii) a discharge resulting from the aerial application of a product used for fire control and suppression purposes that appears on the most current Forest Service Qualified Products List (or any successor list).