Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act of 2021
This bill revises the National Estuary Program to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to give priority consideration to selecting the Pensacola and Perdido Bays in Florida and Alabama as estuaries of national significance. Under the existing program, the EPA protects and restores the water quality and ecological integrity of estuaries of national significance.
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 2021''.

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 and 
Alabama''.
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Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act of 2021
A bill 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.
Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act of 2021
Sen. Rubio, Marco