Maintaining Cooperative Permitting Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2030 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2030 To ensure that certain permit approvals by the Environmental Protection Agency have the force and effect of law, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 11, 2025 Mr. Bean of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To ensure that certain permit approvals by the Environmental Protection Agency have the force and effect of law, 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 ``Maintaining Cooperative Permitting Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. STATE DISCHARGE OF DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL PROGRAMS. (a) Withdrawal of Approval Without Congressional Authorization Prohibited.-- (1) In general.--The permit programs described in paragraph (2) are ratified, approved, and of full force and effect, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (referred to in this section as the ``Administrator'') may not withdraw the approval of those permit programs, including through the process described in section 404(i) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(i)), unless the withdrawal is expressly authorized by an Act of Congress enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Permit programs described.--The permit programs referred to in paragraph (1) are the following State permit programs for the discharge of dredged or fill material approved under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344): (A) The program of the State of Michigan, approved in the notice of the Environmental Protection Agen