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H.R. 5872: New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006

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H.R. 5872: New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006

109th Congress · introduced 2006-07-24 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2006-07-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006

Plain summary

New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006 - Designates the New York/New Jersey Bight as the New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Army, and all states from issuing a permit for ocean dumping, or establishing any new disposal site in the Zone, including under specified provisions of existing law. Terminates all existing disposal site designations, subject to exception. States that the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from a point source constructed or put into use after enactment of this Act is prohibited under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Prohibits permit issuance for such discharge. Prohibits a state or federal permit issued for the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from being renewed, reissued, or modified to allow any increase of discharge capacity of any point source or to contain any effluent limitation less stringent than comparable effluent limitations in the permit. Prohibits the permanent extraction of any nonrenewable natural resource from the Zone for commercial or industrial use, except for the primary purpose of maintaining or establishing navigation channels. Prohibits the creation, licensing, leasing, easement granting, or right-of-way granting of certain facilities involving nonrenewable energy, including deepwater ports and pipelines. Prohibits categorically excluding leases, easements, or rights-of-way for renewable energy facilities from specified provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Prohibits underwater research or exploration in the Zone unless it meets certain requirements.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3] · 9 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong109-hr5872 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109