S. 272: EPA Fair Play Act
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S. 272: EPA Fair Play Act
112th Congress · introduced 2011-02-03 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-02-03 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
EPA Fair Play Act
Plain summary
EPA Fair Play Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to remove the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit the specification of any defined area as a disposal site for discharges of materials into waters of the United States, or to restrict the use of any defined area for specification as a disposal site, once the Secretary of the Army has issued a permit for dredged or fill material. Makes this Act effective as of October 18, 1972.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] · 8 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), John Boozman (R-AR), John Hoeven (R-ND)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s272.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s272 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112