[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[S. 50 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        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 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
        (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.