Number: RL33465
Title: Clean Water Act: A Review of  Issues in the 109th Congress
Authors: Claudia Copeland, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: Before adjourning sine die in December 2006, Congress passed legislation to reauthorize the Clean Water Act's Lake Pontchartrain Basin program (H.R. 6121). President Bush signed this bill into law on December 12 (P.L. 109-392). House and Senate committees reported several other bills near the end of the 109th Congress, but none of these was enacted. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reported H.R. 4126, to reauthorize the act's Chesapeake Bay program. Two other bills reported by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee dealt with security of wastewater treatment facilities (S. 2781), and incentives to promote remediation of inactive and abandoned hardrock mines (S. 1848).
Pages: 18
Date: January 4, 2007