[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3601 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3601

   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the 
    Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a 
     discharge permit that modifies the total suspended solids and 
biochemical oxygen demand requirements with respect to the discharge of 
    waste water effluent into the ocean from certain publicly owned 
 treatment works if a water reclamation program is being implemented, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 20, 1993

Ms. Schenk introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
 the Committees on Public Works and Transportation and Merchant Marine 
                             and Fisheries

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the 
    Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a 
     discharge permit that modifies the total suspended solids and 
biochemical oxygen demand requirements with respect to the discharge of 
    waste water effluent into the ocean from certain publicly owned 
 treatment works if a water reclamation program is being implemented, 
                        and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. MODIFIED PERMIT REQUIREMENT.

    Section 301 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1311) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Modified Permit Requirement Relating to Pollution Prevention 
for the Marine Environment Through Water Reclamation.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Administrator, with the concurrence 
        of the affected State, shall issue a permit under section 402 
        that modifies the requirements of subsection (b)(1)(B) with 
        respect to the total suspended solids and biochemical oxygen 
        demand in the effluent discharged from a publicly owned 
        treatment works into open coastal marine waters if the 
        applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Administrator 
        that--
                    ``(A) the effluent discharge is at a depth that 
                exceeds 300 feet and meets all other requirements of 
                this Act with regard to impact on the marine 
                environment;
                    ``(B) the effluent has received chemically enhanced 
                primary treatment and meets all State requirements; and
                    ``(C) the applicant is implementing a water 
                reclamation and reuse program that will--
                            ``(i) result in a steady reduction in the 
                        equivalent concentration of total suspended 
                        solids discharged into the marine environment; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) be cost effective and not result in 
                        sewer and water rates in the affected service 
                        area that are more than 2.0 percent of the 
                        median family income in such area.
            ``(2) Definition.--For the purposes of this subsection, the 
        term `equivalent concentration of total suspended solids' means 
        the total suspended solids discharged divided by the total 
        outflows from the treatment works, including beneficially 
        reused water, as expressed in milligrams per liter.''.

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