An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 111-463 to define "estuary" under the Clean Water Act to include Great Lakes waters and wetlands that are similar to traditional estuaries covered by the National Estuary Program.

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   Inserted: (i) Great Lakes Estuaries.--Section 320(m) of such Act (as redesignated by subsection (d) of this section) is amended by striking the subsection designation and all that follows through "and those portions of tributaries" and inserting the following:

   Inserted: "(m) Definitions.--In this section, the terms 'estuary' and 'estuarine zone' have the meanings such terms have in section 104(n)(4), except that--

   Inserted: "(1) the term 'estuary' also includes near coastal waters and other bodies of water within the Great Lakes that are similar in form and function to the waters described in the definition of 'estuary' contained in section 104(n)(4); and

   Inserted: "(2) the term 'estuarine zone' also includes--

   Inserted: "(A) waters within the Great Lakes described in paragraph (1) and transitional areas from such waters that are similar in form and function to the transitional areas described in the definition of 'estuarine zone' contained in section 104(n)(4);

   Inserted: "(B) associated aquatic ecosystems; and

   Inserted: "(C) those portions of tributaries".

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   Page 15, after line 8, add the following:

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