Clean Water Protection Act

The Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 1310) was a bill introduced in the 111th United States Congress via the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. It proposed to redefine "fill material" to not include mining "waste" under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

It was introduced by Frank Pallone and Chris Shays in the 110th Congress, and almost identical bills had been introduced in previous years. As of July 2009, H.R.1310 had 154 co-sponsors.[1] Environmental groups such as Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Sierra Club supported the legislation because of their stance against mountaintop removal mining. It would also have affected situations similar to the Kensington Mine operation near Juneau, Alaska where a mine was permitted to discharge mining waste into a small lake as "fill."[2]

Congress Short title Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status
107th Congress Clean Water Protection Act H.R. 4683 June 8, 2002 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 36 Died in committee
108th Congress H.R. 738 February 12, 2003 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 64 Died in committee
109th Congress H.R. 2719 May 26, 2005 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 76 Died in committee
110th Congress H.R. 2169 May 3, 2007 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 152 Died in committee
111th Congress H.R. 1310 March 4, 2009 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 172 Died in committee
112th Congress H.R. 1375 April 5, 2011 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 131 Died in committee
113th Congress H.R. 1837 May 6, 2013 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 94 Died in committee
114th Congress H.R. 6411 November 30, 2016 Frank Pallone

(D-NJ)

 0 Died in committee

See also

References
  1. U.S. Library of Congress. "H.R. 1310." Archived 2014-10-15 at the Wayback Machine List of cosponsors. THOMAS (Legislative reference database). Accessed 2009-07-21.
  2. U.S. Supreme Court. Coeur Alaska, Inc v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, et al. 557 U.S. ___ (2009). Decided 2009-06-22. Slip Opinion No. 07-984.
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