Stauber Permitting Legislation Passes House

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives passed the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act, a package of permitting bills that includes Congressman Pete Stauber’s (MN-08) legislation to prevent permitting abuses by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Of his legislation’s passage, Congressman Stauber stated, “For too long, the Clean Water Act has been weaponized by radical environmentalists to block permits for critical energy and infrastructure projects. This has come at an incredible cost to the communities we serve, and Congress must act to modernize the Clean Water Act in order to prevent further harm. I am especially proud to see legislation I authored to prevent EPA permitting abuses included in the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act. I look forward to seeing this legislation create more certainty in the permitting process, thus increasing our energy production.”

Stauber’s legislation is called the Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act, and it would prevent the EPA from using its Clean Water Act veto authority to preemptively reject drudge and fill projects that have yet to file an application or retroactively eliminate already permitted projects.