Federal water pollution control act amendments of 1977: hearing before the Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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achieve Act's additional Administrator Agency agricultural amendments American Petroleum Institute application areas ARGO MERCHANT carcinogenic Chairman chemical Committee compliance comply Congress control technology Corps of Engineers costs Court of Appeals deadline economic effects effluent limitations electric ent limitations environment EPA's established facilities Federal Water Pollution Florida funds FWPCA goals Harney County implementation industrial dischargers irrigation return flow issued Jorling July June 28 legislation levels liability MACDONALD major ment million municipal navigable waters noncompliance nonpoint NPDES permits NRDC oil spill percent plants point source Pollution Control Act POTW pretreatment program pretreatment standards problems production promulgation proposed recommendation regulations regulatory Report response result Salt River Project Section 404 Senator ANDERSON Senator MUSKIE Settlement Agreement sludge source performance standards specific statement steel industry STROHBEHN Subcommittee substances tion toxic pollutants treatment utility Water Pollution Control water quality standards wetlands wildlife
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Page 444 - That no additive shall be deemed to be safe If it Is found to Induce cancer when Ingested by man or animal or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal...
Page 207 - ... means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy...
Page 397 - A Legislative History of the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, Together with a Section-by-Section Index.
Page 90 - (1) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985; "(2) it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water...
Page 479 - It is the national policy that to the maximum extent possible the procedures utilized for implementing this Act shall encourage the drastic minimization of paperwork and interagency decision procedures, and the best use of available manpower and funds, so as to prevent needless duplication and unnecessary delays at all levels of government.
Page 251 - The preceding sentence shall apply (A) to any requirement whether substantive or procedural (including any recordkeeping or reporting requirement, any requirement respecting permits and any other requirement, whatsoever), (B) to the exercise of any Federal, State, or local administrative authority, and (C) to any process and sanction, whether enforced in Federal, State, or local courts or in any other manner.
Page 472 - States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Page 178 - ... and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will...
Page 281 - Congress redefine the goal of the elimination of discharge of pollutants by 1985 to stress conservation and reuse of resources while striving to achieve the objective of restoring and maintaining ". . . the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters.
Page 148 - ... remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities ; and any works, including site acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment process or is used for ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment. "(B) In addition to the definition contained in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, 'treatment works...