S 234 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015

Introduced Jan 22, 2015 Originated Senate Sponsor David Vitter R-LA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jan 22, 2015 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.

  1. IntroducedJan 22, 2015
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015

This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define the period of time in which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to restrict or deny a permit for the discharge of dredged or fill materials into navigable waters as the period that:

  • begins on the date that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes a notice for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at specified disposal sites, and
  • ends on the date that the Army Corps issues the permit.

The EPA must make all the information and data that it reviewed in making a determination publicly available.

The EPA's authority to withdraw a specification of a defined area as a disposal site for the discharge of dredged or fill materials is eliminated.

Any previous action by the EPA that occurred outside of this period to deny or restrict a permit or to prohibit the specification of any defined area as a disposal site is nullified.

Cosponsors 9

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2015 to Jan 27, 2015, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-GADavid PerdueOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-NVDean HellerOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-IDJames E. RischOriginalJan 22, 2015
I-WVJoe Manchin IIIOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-WYJohn BarrassoOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-WYMichael B. EnziOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-IDMike CrapoOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-KYMitch McConnellOriginalJan 22, 2015
R-OKJames LankfordJan 27, 2015

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jan 22, 2015Introduced in Senate
  2. Jan 22, 2015Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Related bills 1

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

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 54Regulatory Fairness Act of 2015Identical billJan 7, 2015

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jan 22, 2015Introduced in Senate

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