H.R. 3901

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3901 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3901

To direct the Secretary of the Army to eliminate any backlog of 
applications for permits under section 404 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act or requests for jurisdictional determinations 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 11, 2025

Mr. Hurd of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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A BILL

To direct the Secretary of the Army to eliminate any backlog of 
applications for permits under section 404 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act or requests for jurisdictional determinations 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, and for other purposes.

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 ``Jurisdictional Determination Backlog 
Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF BACKLOG OF APPLICATIONS FOR JURISDICTIONAL 
DETERMINATIONS AND PERMITS.

Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall 
expedite such procedures and reallocate or augment such personnel and 
resources of the Corps of Engineers as the Secretary determines 
necessary to eliminate any backlog existing as June 5, 2025, of--
(1) applications for permits under section 404 of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344); or
(2) requests for jurisdictional determinations under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary.
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