Bill108th CongressFiled Feb 27, 2003Environmental Protection
S. 473
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Feb 27, 2003)
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to replace the term "navigable waters," throughout the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.
What just happenedFeb 27, 2003
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2928-2929)
Who’s behind it
Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI](D-WI)Sponsor
16 cosponsors15 D1 I
16cosponsors1committees3actions2related bills16subjects
- Introduced in SenateFeb 27, 2003
- Feb 27, 2003IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2928-2929)
Environment and Public Works Committee - Feb 27, 2003IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2927-2928)
- Feb 27, 2003IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate