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Clean Water Issues in the 107th Congress (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Jan. 9, 2003
Report Number IB10069
Authors Claudia Copeland, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Key water quality issues that faced the 107th Congress included: actions to implement existing provisions of the Clean Water Act (CWA), whether additional steps are necessary to achieve overall goals of the Act, and the appropriate federal role in guiding and paying for clean water activities. Legislative prospects for comprehensively amending the Act have for some time stalled over whether and exactly how to change the law. In the second session of the 107th Congress, House and Senate committees approved legislation to reauthorize water infrastructure funding programs, but no further action occurred. Congress did pass a bill with funding to clean up contaminated sediments in the Great Lakes (H.R. 1070, P.L. 107-303).