To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to disapprove a permit after it has been issued by the Secretary of the Army under section 404 of such Act.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 524.

• CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 524, a bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to disapprove a permit after it has been issued by the Secretary of the Army” on April 18, 2014. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on April 9, 2014”.
  Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 18, 2014 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  cboCostEstimates

  CBO publication

  https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45284

  CBO publication date

  April 18, 2014

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 524, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/524

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b83681346540dc1836ee6720bdb027b3a11f90844aeb9ed7af01917aefdadb8

• PORKER links to the estimate and does not repeat its dollar figures. Each estimate is for the version of the bill its description names; the bill may have changed since.

• Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 113-485 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on June 20, 2014.
  Source: Congress.gov, reported June 20, 2014 ↗

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  committeeReports

  Report API records

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/113/HRPT/485

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 524, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/524

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b83681346540dc1836ee6720bdb027b3a11f90844aeb9ed7af01917aefdadb8

  A committee report is the committee’s own explanation of the bill. PORKER lists it and links to it; reading it is up to you.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. McKINLEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H414):
  According to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution: The Congress shall have power to enact this legislation to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated April 7, 2025 ↗

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  Statement length

  221 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 524, 113th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/113/hr/524

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  April 7, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 23, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  2b83681346540dc1836ee6720bdb027b3a11f90844aeb9ed7af01917aefdadb8

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

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