To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to keeping the Federal Water Pollution Control Act focused on protection of water quality, to establish bright lines for Federal jurisdiction, and to create clear and unambiguous exemptions for features that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, claim they are not seeking to regulate.

SA 755. Ms. STABENOW proposed an amendment to the concurrent
resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional budget for
the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE
PROTECTION OF CLEAN WATER USING SCIENTIFIC
STANDARDS WHILE MAINTAINING THE TRADITIONAL
ROLE OF AGRICULTURE.

The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to protecting watersheds, including the Great Lakes,
Chesapeake Bay, the Mississippi River system, the Colorado
River system, or other sources of drinking water of the
United States, which may include clarifying the scope of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.)
to provide certainty for landowners or rural communities, or
preserving existing exemptions for agriculture, ranching, or
forestry, or to rely on the scientific evidence of impacts on
water quality of different types of water bodies by the
amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.
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