Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act”.
Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to the period during which areas may be prohibited from being specified as disposal sites for dredged or fill material, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Reducing permitting uncertainty
In general— Section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(c)) is amended—
by striking “(c) The Administrator” and inserting the following:
“(c) Specification or use of defined area
“(1) In general—The Administrator”
in paragraph (1), as so designated, by inserting “during the period described in paragraph (2) and” before “after notice and opportunity for public hearings”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(2) Period of prohibition—The period during which the Administrator may prohibit the specification (including the withdrawal of specification) of any defined area as a disposal site, or deny or restrict the use of any defined area for specification (including the withdrawal of specification) as a disposal site, under paragraph (1) shall—
“(A) begin on the date on which an applicant submits all the information required to complete an application for a permit under this section; and
“(B) end on the date on which the Secretary issues the permit.”
Applicability— The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to a permit application submitted under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) after the date of enactment of this Act.