S. 50
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four
An Act
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency to give priority consideration to selecting
Pensacola and Perdido Bays as an estuary of national significance, 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 ‘‘Pensacola and Perdido Bays
Estuary of National Significance Act of 2024’’.
SEC. 2. PENSACOLA AND PERDIDO BAYS.
Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘and Lower
Columbia River, Oregon and Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘Lower
Columbia River, Oregon and Washington; and Pensacola and
Perdido Bays, Florida’’.
SEC. 3. INELIGIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND
2025.
With respect to the amendment made by section 2, the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not use for
the implementation of that amendment, including, with respect
to Pensacola and Perdido Bays, Florida, convening a management
conference, developing or carrying out a comprehensive conservation
and management plan, or providing grants under section 320 of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330)—
(1) any amounts appropriated to carry out the national
estuary program under that section for fiscal year 2024; or S. 50—2
(2) unless the total amount appropriated to carry out that
program for fiscal year 2025 is at least $850,000 more than
the total amount appropriated to carry out that program for
fiscal year 2023, any amounts appropriated to carry out that
program for fiscal year 2025.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.