[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2952 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2952

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for a Great 
           Lakes pollution prevention demonstration program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

  Mr. Kaptur introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for a Great 
           Lakes pollution prevention demonstration program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. GREAT LAKES POLLUTION PREVENTION.

    Section 118 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1268) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and (h) as 
        subsections (g), (h), and (i) respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f) Pollution Prevention Demonstration Program.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--The Administrator, in coordination 
        with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and 
        Technology and appropriate officials of the Great Lakes States, 
        shall establish a multimedia Great Lakes pollution prevention 
        demonstration program to increase the use of modernizing 
        industrial source reduction practices (as defined in section 
        6603(5) of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
        13102(5)) through demonstrations in the Great Lakes region.
            ``(2) Registry of technologies.--The Administrator, in 
        consultation with the appropriate officials of State technical 
        assistance offices and the Director of the National Institute 
        of Standards and Technology, shall maintain a registry of 
        modernizing toxic use and waste reduction technologies 
        requiring demonstration.
            ``(3) Participation.--Any person with a permit to discharge 
        into waters of the Great Lakes system under section 402 may 
        participate in the demonstration program through--
                    ``(A) the institution of a source reduction 
                practice from the registry developed under paragraph 
                (2); or
                    ``(B) the institution of any other innovative 
                source reduction practice that the Administrator 
                determines--
                            ``(i) has the potential to significantly 
                        reduce pollutant discharges to water and other 
                        environmental media without significantly 
                        increasing pollutant discharges to any 
                        environmental medium; and
                            ``(ii) should be demonstrated.
            ``(4) Requirements.--Any participant in the demonstration 
        program--
                    ``(A) shall be exempt from the requirement under 
                section 308 to pay a fee for the development of revised 
                effluent guidelines; and
                    ``(B) may be granted an additional year to comply 
                with any new or revised effluent standards issued under 
                this Act if, in the judgment of the Administrator, the 
                extension is necessary and appropriate.
            ``(5) Pollution prevention extension service.--The 
        Administrator, in cooperation with the Director of the National 
        Institute of Standards and Technology and appropriate officials 
        of State technical assistance offices, shall establish a 
        pollution prevention extension service to provide an active 
        outreach effort to advise, inform, and encourage pollution 
        prevention by industrial discharges to the Great Lakes System.
            ``(6) Pollution prevention clearinghouse.--
                    ``(A) Establishment.--The Administrator shall 
                establish a Great Lakes pollution prevention 
                clearinghouse.
                    ``(B) Use.--The clearinghouse shall utilize the 
                results of--
                            ``(i) research from the Environmental 
                        Protection Agency Risk Reduction Engineering 
                        Laboratory; and
                            ``(ii) demonstrations conducted pursuant to 
                        this subsection;
                to provide information to municipal and industrial 
                dischargers and sources of nonpoint pollution within 
                the Great Lakes region on source reduction methods, 
                measures, techniques, and technologies.
                    ``(C) Cooperation with canada.--The Administrator 
                shall, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate 
                with appropriate officials of the Government of Canada 
                with respect to the collection and dissemination of 
                information pursuant to this section.
            ``(7) Pollution prevention for cities program.--
                    ``(A) Application for technical assistance.-- A 
                municipality located within the Great Lakes basin 
                boundaries may apply for technical and financial 
                assistance from the Administrator to implement source 
                reduction of toxic pollutants in urban runoff, 
                wastewater, and stormwater.
                    ``(B) Eligibility.--To be eligible for assistance 
                under this paragraph, a municipality shall apply to the 
                Administrator with a statement--
                            ``(i) stating pollutant reduction goals; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) documenting stakeholder interest in 
                        implementing voluntary pollutant reduction 
                        measures.
                    ``(C) Assistance.--The Administrator shall, for 
                each municipality with an approved application 
                statement--
                            ``(i) provide technical assistance in the 
                        development of a municipal source reduction 
                        action plan; and
                            ``(ii) authorize the expenditure of State 
                        revolving fund moneys pursuant to title VI for 
                        the implementation of an approved source 
                        reduction plan.''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FROM STATE REVOLVING LOAN FUND PROGRAM.

    Sections 601(a) and 603(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1381(a) and 1383(c)) are each amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of clause (2);
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end of the first 
        sentence the following: ``, and (4) for carrying out the 
        activities related to the Great Lakes described in section 
        118(f), including implementing a source reduction action plan 
        that has been approved by the Administrator pursuant to section 
        118(f)(7)''.

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