Clean Water Protection Act
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The Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 1310) is a bill introduced in the 111th United States Congress via the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, a subcommittee of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. It proposes 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 April 2009, H.R.1310 had 137 co-sponsors.[1] Several environmental groups such as Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Sierra Club, as well as many others, supported the legislation primarily as an effort to curb Mountaintop removal mining[2] [3]. It would also affect situations similar to the Kensington Mine operation near Juneau where a mine will be permitted to discharge mining waste into a small lake as "fill.[4]
