PERMIT Act in plain language
1: Short title
This section would let the Act be called the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act, or the PERMIT Act, for short.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act or the PERMIT Act .
2: Definition of navigable waters
This section would amend the definition of navigable waters in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(7)). It would reorganize the existing definition text under a new heading, In general, without changing that wording, and would add a new list of exclusions after it. Under the new exclusions list, the term navigable waters would not include: waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons designed to meet the requirements of the Act; ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation; prior converted cropland; groundwater; or any other features that the Administrator or the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, determines should be excluded.
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2. Definition of navigable waters Section 502(7) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1362(7) ) is amended— (1) by striking (7) The term and inserting the following: (7) Navigable waters (A) In general The term ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (B) Exclusions The term navigable waters does not include— (i) waste treatment systems, including treatment ponds or lagoons designed to meet the requirements of this Act; (ii) ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation; (iii) prior converted cropland; (iv) groundwater; or (v) any other features determined to be excluded by the Administrator or the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers. .