[118th Congress Public Law 152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 118-152
118th Congress

                                 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. <<NOTE: Dec. 17, 
                           2024 -  [S. 50]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Pensacola and 
Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act of 2024.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 33 USC 1251 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of 
National Significance Act of 2024''.
SEC. 2. <<NOTE: Florida.>> 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. <<NOTE: Time periods.>> INELIGIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO 
                    FISCAL YEARS 2024 AND 2025.

    With respect to the amendment made by section 2, the Administrator 
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

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            (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.

    Approved December 17, 2024.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 50:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):
            Mar. 12, considered and passed Senate.
            Dec. 9, considered and passed House.

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