Clean Water Protection Act

The Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 1310) was a bill introduced in the 111th United States Congress via the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. It proposed 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 July 2009, H.R.1310 had 154 co-sponsors. Environmental groups such as Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Sierra Club supported the legislation because of their stance against mountaintop removal mining. It would also have affected situations similar to the Kensington Mine operation near Juneau, Alaska where a mine was permitted to discharge mining waste into a small lake as "fill."

Congress	Short title	Bill number(s)	Date introduced	Sponsor(s)	# of cosponsors	Latest status
107th Congress	Clean Water Protection Act	H.R. 4683	June 8, 2002	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	36	Died in committee
108th Congress		H.R. 738	February 12, 2003	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	64	Died in committee
109th Congress		H.R. 2719	May 26, 2005	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	76	Died in committee
110th Congress		H.R. 2169	May 3, 2007	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	152	Died in committee
111th Congress		H.R. 1310	March 4, 2009	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	172	Died in committee
112th Congress		H.R. 1375	April 5, 2011	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	131	Died in committee
113th Congress		H.R. 1837	May 6, 2013	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	94	Died in committee
114th Congress		H.R. 6411	November 30, 2016	Frank Pallone (D-NJ)	0	Died in committee

See also

• Clean Water Act
• Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council

External links

• Text of H.R.1310 in Library of Congress Reference Archived 2014-10-15 at the Wayback Machine