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The '''Clean Water Protection Act''' ({{USBill|111|H.R.|1310}}) was a [[Bill (proposed law)|bill]] introduced in the [[111th United States Congress]] via the [[United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment|House of Representatives Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment]], of the [[United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure|Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]]. It proposed to redefine "fill material" to not include mining "waste" under the [[Federal Water Pollution Control Act]].

It was introduced by [[Frank Pallone]] and [[Chris Shays]] in the [[110th Congress]], and almost identical bills had been introduced in previous years. As of July 2009, H.R.1310 had 154 co-sponsors.<ref>U.S. Library of Congress. [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01310:@@@P "H.R. 1310."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015160739/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR01310:@@@P |date=2014-10-15 }} List of cosponsors. [[THOMAS]] (Legislative reference database). Accessed 2009-07-21.</ref>  Environmental groups such as [[Appalachian Voices]], [[Kentuckians for the Commonwealth]] and [[Sierra Club]] supported the legislation because of their stance against [[mountaintop removal mining]].  It would also have affected situations similar to the [[Juneau_mining_district#Kensington_.26_Jualin_mines_.28under_development.29|Kensington Mine]] operation near [[Juneau, Alaska]] where a mine was permitted to discharge mining waste into a small lake as "fill."<ref>U.S. Supreme Court. [https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/08pdf/07-984.pdf ''Coeur Alaska, Inc v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, et al.''] 557 U.S. ___ (2009). Decided 2009-06-22. Slip Opinion No. 07-984.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
!Congress
!Short title
!Bill number(s)
!Date introduced
!Sponsor(s)
!# of cosponsors
!Latest status
|-
|[[107th United States Congress|107th Congress]]
|rowspan=8|Clean Water Protection Act
|{{USBill|107|HR|4683}}
|June 8, 2002
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|36
|Died in committee
|-
|[[108th United States Congress|108th Congress]]
|{{USBill|108|HR|738}}
|February 12, 2003
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|64
|Died in committee
|-
|[[109th United States Congress|109th Congress]]
|{{USBill|109|HR|2719}}
|May 26, 2005
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|76
|Died in committee
|-
|[[110th United States Congress|110th Congress]]
|{{USBill|110|HR|2169}}
|May 3, 2007
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|152
|Died in committee
|-
|[[111th United States Congress|111th Congress]]
|{{USBill|111|HR|1310}}
|March 4, 2009
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|172
|Died in committee
|-
|[[112th United States Congress|112th Congress]]
|{{USBill|112|HR|1375}}
|April 5, 2011
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|131
|Died in committee
|-
|[[113th United States Congress|113th Congress]]
|{{USBill|113|HR|1837}}
|May 6, 2013
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|94
|Died in committee
|-
|[[114th United States Congress|114th Congress]]
|{{USBill|114|HR|6411}}
|November 30, 2016
|[[Frank Pallone]]
(D-NJ)
|0
|Died in committee
|}

== See also ==
*[[Clean Water Act]]
*[[Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1310: Text of H.R.1310 in Library of Congress Reference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015160749/http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1310: |date=2014-10-15 }}

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