Political Quotes

“in closing, H.R. 3898 is critical to achieving more efficient, predictable, and useful permitting for many important projects by streamlining and improving the Clean Water Act's permitting process. As has been stated, H.R. 3898 will support everyday Americans in every district across this Nation by making commonsense reforms to the Clean Water Act, unleashing America's ability to increase transparency in the development of water quality standards. It also directs the Corps to eliminate the backlog of outstanding section 404 permit applications and jurisdictional determinations, eliminates duplicative, unnecessary permitting processes for areas such as pesticide in aerial fire retardant use, and so much more. The bottom line is, we cannot effectively build roads, bridges, pipelines, ports, dams, levies, airports, homes, farms, and many, many other important infrastructure projects. This bill is a product of hard work by many members of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.”