H.R. 7194: Regulatory Certainty for Navigable Waters Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-11-29 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

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Where it came from: introduced 2018-11-29 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Regulatory Certainty for Navigable Waters Act

Plain summary

Regulatory Certainty for Navigable Waters Act This bill describes which bodies of water fall under federal jurisdiction and the scope of the Clean Water Act. Specifically, the bill: (1) repeals the Environmental Protection Agency's 2015 Clean Water Rule (commonly known as the Waters of the United States or WOTUS rule), (2) defines navigable waters, and (3) establishes a process for reviewing determinations that water bodies are navigable waters.

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Official text

Regulatory Certainty for Navigable Waters Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Sponsor: Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] · 1 cosponsors

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Jurisdiction: The area or the matters a government or court has authority over.
Rulemaking: The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr7194.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>

Record fed-us-cong115-hr7194 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115