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

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Release Date Jan. 5, 2001
Report Number RS20770
Report Type Report
Authors Claudia Copeland, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Key water quality issues that may face the 107th Congress include: 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. If clean water issues receive attention in the 107th Congress, consideration of specific issues will depend in part on the CWA policy agenda of the new Bush Administration and on priorities of the key committees that have major jurisdiction over the Act.