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It amends the Federal Water Pollution Control act, redefining "Waters of the United States" to be pretty much anything that might hold or carry water that would cross state lines or ends up in a sea or ocean. At least that is the way I read it. It already has 24 Senate co-sponsors.
`(25) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters of the United States' means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.'.
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