S 830 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

EPA Fair Play Act

Introduced Apr 25, 2013 Originated Senate Sponsor Joe Manchin III I-WV

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 25, 2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedApr 25, 2013
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

EPA Fair Play Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to remove the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification, or restrict the use, of an area as a disposal site for discharges of dredged or fill materials into waters of the United States once the Army Corps of Engineers has issued a permit for the discharge.

Makes this Act effective as of October 18, 1972.

Cosponsors 6

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Apr 25, 2013.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-LA	David Vitter	Original	Apr 25, 2013
D-WV	John D. Rockefeller IV	Original	Apr 25, 2013
R-ND	John Hoeven	Original	Apr 25, 2013
R-AK	Lisa Murkowski	Original	Apr 25, 2013
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu	Original	Apr 25, 2013
R-OH	Rob Portman	Original	Apr 25, 2013

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 25, 2013Introduced in Senate
Apr 25, 2013Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 524	To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to disapprove a permit after it has been issued by the Secretary of the Army under section 404 of such Ac	Related bill	Jun 20, 2014
S 2156	Regulatory Fairness Act of 2014	Related bill	Mar 25, 2014

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 25, 2013Introduced in Senate

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.