Bill Details
HR.1311 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Introduced Date
2025-02-13
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
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This bill would stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from issuing a key federal permit for the Delta Conveyance Project, a proposed water tunnel in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In simple terms, it would block the federal government from approving this project through the Clean Water Act permit process, which could prevent the project from moving forward at the federal level.
- The bill applies to a permit under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which covers the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters and wetlands.
- The project named in the bill is the Delta Conveyance Project described in the Corps’ December 2022 draft environmental impact statement.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1311 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1311
To prohibit the Corps of Engineers from issuing a permit for the Delta
Conveyance Project.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Harder of California (for himself, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Garamendi, Mr.
Thompson of California, and Mr. DeSaulnier) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure
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A BILL
To prohibit the Corps of Engineers from issuing a permit for the Delta
Conveyance Project.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Stop the Delta Tunnel Act''.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT PERMIT.
The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers,
may not issue a permit under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) relating to the Delta Conveyance Project
described in the document published by the Corps of Engineers entitled
``Delta Conveyance Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement'' and
dated December 2022.
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