Bill > HR935

Introduced Session

Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2013 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act [CWA]) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state from requiring a permit under the CWA for a discharge from a point source into navigable waters of a pesticide authorized for sale, distribution, or use under FIFRA, or the residue of such a pesticide, resulting from the application of such pesticide. Exempts from such prohibition the following discharges containing a pesticide or pesticide residue: (1) a discharge resulting from the application of a pesticide in violation of FIFRA that is relevant to protecting water quality, if the discharge would not have occurred but for the violation or the amount of pesticide or pesticide residue contained in the discharge is greater than would have occurred without the violation; (2) stormwater discharges regulated under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES); and (3) discharges regulated under NPDES of manufacturing or industrial effluent or treatment works effluent and discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, including a discharge resulting from ballasting operations or vessel biofouling prevention.

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Bob Gibbs (R)*,  Spencer Bachus (R),  Lou Barletta (R),  Sanford Bishop (D),  Jo Bonner (R),  Bill Cassidy (R),  K. Michael Conaway (R),  Jim Costa (D),  Tom Cotton (R),  Kevin Cramer (R),  Rick Crawford (R),  Ander Crenshaw (R),  Rodney Davis (R),  Jeff Denham (R),  Scott DesJarlais (R),  Renee Ellmers (R),  William Enyart (D),  Chuck Fleischmann (R),  J. Randy Forbes (R),  Cory Gardner (R),  Phil Gingrey (R),  Paul Gosar (R),  Brett Guthrie (R),  Vicky Hartzler (R),  Richard Hudson (R),  Tim Huelskamp (R),  Bill Huizenga (R),  Randy Hultgren (R),  Bill Johnson (R),  Walter Jones (R),  Jack Kingston (R),  Adam Kinzinger (R),  John Kline (R),  Doug LaMalfa (R),  Frank Lucas (R),  Cynthia Lummis (R),  Tom Marino (R),  Michael McCaul (R),  Mike McIntyre (D),  Kristi Noem (R),  Alan Nunnelee (R),  Collin Peterson (D),  Ted Poe (R),  Mike Pompeo (R),  Reid Ribble (R),  Martha Roby (R),  Mike Rogers (R),  Todd Rokita (R),  Matt Salmon (R),  Kurt Schrader (D),  David Schweikert (R),  Austin Scott (R),  Mike Simpson (R),  Adrian Smith (R),  Steve Southerland (R),  Steve Stivers (R),  Steve Stockman (R),  Marlin Stutzman (R),  Mac Thornberry (R),  David Valadao (R),  Greg Walden (R),  Kevin Yoder (R), 

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (on 08/01/2014)