S.Amdt. 2348

SA 2348. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to

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amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title III, insert the
following:

SEC. 320. PARTICIPATION IN POLLUTANT BANKING AND WATER
QUALITY TRADING PROGRAMS.

(a) Authority to Participate.--The Secretary of a military
department, and the Secretary of Defense with respect to
matters concerning a Defense Agency, when engaged in an
authorized activity that may or will result in the discharge
of pollutants, may make payments to a pollutant banking
program or water quality trading program approved in
accordance with the Water Quality Trading Policy dated
January 13, 2003, set forth by the Office of Water of the
Environmental Protection Agency, or any successor
administrative guidance or regulation.
(b) Treatment of Payments.--Payments made under subsection
(a) to a pollutant banking program or water quality trading
program may be treated as eligible project costs for military
construction.
(c) Discharge of Pollutants Defined.--In this section, the
term ``discharge of pollutants'' has the meaning given that
term in section 502(12) of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(12)) (commonly referred to as the
``Clean Water Act'').
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