In the nature of a substitute.

SA 1694. Mr. SCHUMER (for Mr. Rubio) proposed an amendment to the
bill S. 50, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to give
priority consideration to selecting Pensacola and Perdido Bays as an
estuary of national significance, and for other purposes; as follows:

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Pensacola and Perdido Bays
Estuary of National Significance Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. PENSACOLA AND PERDIDO BAYS.

Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``and
Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington'' and inserting
``Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington; and Pensacola
and Perdido Bays, Florida''.

SEC. 3. INELIGIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND
2025.

With respect to the amendment made by section 2, the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not
use for the implementation of that amendment, including, with
respect to Pensacola and Perdido Bays, Florida, convening a
management conference, developing or carrying out a
comprehensive conservation and management plan, or providing
grants under section 320 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330)--
(1) any amounts appropriated to carry out the national
estuary program under that section for fiscal year 2024; or
(2) unless the total amount appropriated to carry out that
program for fiscal year 2025 is at least $850,000 more than
the total amount appropriated to carry out that program for
fiscal year 2023, any amounts appropriated to carry out that
program for fiscal year 2025.

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