H.R. 3898 · 119th Congress · Environmental protection
PERMIT Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Dec 11, 2025
Roll call ↗221
205
Passed the House.
Passed the House on December 11, 2025.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
- IntroducedJun 11, 2025
- CommitteeJul 2, 2025
- Passed HouseDec 11, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 8
- all Republicans
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksHouse Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Lobbying
- At least 108
- organizations named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it does
Rewrites a broad set of Clean Water Act permitting rules under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act across 25 substantive sections.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, December 11, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
Rewrites a broad set of Clean Water Act permitting rules under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act across 25 substantive sections. It requires water-quality standards, criteria, and technology determinations to weigh the cost and commercial availability in the United States of the treatment technologies that compliance would require. It overhauls the section 401 state water-quality certification process, tying certification decisions only to compliance with sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307, setting a one-year decision window and a 90-day deadline for the certifying authority to identify needed materials, and adding an expedited judicial-review track for energy infrastructure and FERC-related certifications. It extends NPDES permit terms from five years to ten years and section 404 general permits from five to ten years. It exempts from permitting the discharge of pesticides authorized under FIFRA and agricultural stormwater that flows in direct response to precipitation. It narrows 'navigable waters' to exclude groundwater, ephemeral features that flow only after precipitation, waste-treatment system components, and certain prior-converted cropland. It deems discharges of dredged or fill material into less than 3 acres of navigable waters a minimal adverse environmental effect, ratifies the Michigan, New Jersey, and Florida section 404 permit programs and bars EPA from withdrawing their approval without an Act of Congress, revises compensatory-mitigation rules, and directs backlog reduction and a state-led water-quality pilot. A final section authorizes the International Boundary and Water Commission to accept Federal and non-Federal funds for wastewater treatment, water conservation, and flood control works along the United States-Mexico border.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 108 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 444 quarterly reports filed by 18 lobbying firms and by 61 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: National Hydropower Association; California Association of Sanitation Agencies; Airports Council International -- North America; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA); American Society of Civil Engineers. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 103 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.