1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Clean Water Act of 2023 . 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To reaffirm the commitment of Congress to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s protected water resources. (2) To clearly define the Nation’s protected water resources that are subject to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1252 et seq. ) (commonly known as the Clean Water Act ) based on the best available scientific evidence and decades of partnership between the Federal, State, and Tribal governments to protect water quality. (3) To eliminate the confusion initiated by the Supreme Court’s overly narrow interpretation of the term navigable waters and to reestablish the comprehensive authority necessary to meet the codified objective of the Clean Water Act. (4) To restore a national minimum standard of protection of the Nation’s protected water resources to the fullest extent of the legislative authority of Congress under the Constitution. 3. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Water is a singular and precious resource that sustains all life and is fundamental to civilization’s survival, cultural practices, and indigenous ways of life. (2) Clean and abundant water is important for public health, agriculture, transportation, flood control, energy production, recreation, fishing, and municipal and commercial uses. (3) Rivers, streams, wetlands, and other water bodies are hydrologically connected within their watersheds, and scientific evidence shows that the pollution, impairment, or destruction of a water body in one location may significantly affect the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of other waters. (4) The Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), reduces the protections of the Clean Water Act contrary to, and impairing, the congressional objective of restoring and maintaining the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s protected water resources. (5) The