Maintaining Cooperative Permitting Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Mar 13, 2025
What it does
The Maintaining Cooperative Permitting Act of 2025 would ratify and protect from withdrawal the EPA-approved state permit programs for discharging dredged or fill material in Michigan, New Jersey, and Florida, preventing the EPA Administrator from revoking these programs without explicit congressional authorization. It also establishes a 90-day transition period during which both the Secretary of the Army and Florida may issue permits under Florida’s program, and requires the EPA to recognize and notify about comparable state programs, triggering a suspension of federal permit issuance by the Army Corps of Engineers when a state begins administering such a program. Finally, the bill…
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