HR 3898
PERMIT Act
Summary
Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act or the PERMIT Act This bill limits the scope of the Clean Water Act by redefining navigable waters to exclude (1) waste treatment systems, (2) ephemeral features that flow only in direct response to precipitation, (3) prior converted cropland, (4) groundwater, or (5) any other features determined to be excluded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Mike Collins [R-GA-10]
- Cosponsors
- 8
- Policy area
- Environmental Protection
- Introduced
- 2025-06-11
- Latest action
- 2025-12-15: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committee referrals
- Environment and Public Works Committee: Senate · Referred To · 2025-12-15
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Unknown · 2025-12-11
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Unknown · 2025-12-11
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Reported By · 2025-07-02
- Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: House · Markup By · 2025-06-25
Recent actions
- 2025-12-15: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- 2025-12-11: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-12-11: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 221 - 205 (Roll no. 330).
- 2025-12-11: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 221 - 205 (Roll no. 330).
- 2025-12-11: On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 210 - 216 (Roll no. 329).