House Resolution 961 otherwise known as the reauthorized Clean Water Act (CWA).

House Resolution 961 otherwise known as the reauthorized Clean Water Act (CWA), delineates a fundamental shift in federal policy with regard to the delineation and protection of wetland areas.

In 1987 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) called for a gathering of scientists, politicians and private industry leaders to appropriate and discuss the definition of a wetland. although wetland areas have enjoyed near federal protection since the Federal bow Stamp Program in 1934, different agencies had different definitions for what constitutes single and the EPA felt a standard definition was warranted.

Dubbed the National Wetlands Policy Forum, the meeting produc three words which have become, HR 961 notwithstanding, the official federal policy in succession wetlands protection: "no net loss"

Though interpreted in various ways, the no unadulterated loss policy was adopted by means of President George Bush and since on the Clinton Administration. However, if the wetlands provisions of HR 961 are signed