The bill, titled the “Maintaining Cooperative Permitting Act of 2024,” aims to ensure that certain state permit programs approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for discharging dredged or fill material cannot have their approvals withdrawn without specific...
Simple Explanation
The bill is about making sure that the states of Michigan, New Jersey, and Florida can keep their special permissions from the Environmental Protection Agency to manage some water-related activities by themselves. This means the EPA can't take away these permissions easily, unless Congress says so with a new law.