[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4226 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4226

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 1994

Mr. Machtley 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 provide for a 
      national estuary 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. NATIONAL ESTUARY POLLUTION PREVENTION.

    Section 320 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1330) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (k) as subsection (l); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (j) the following:
    ``(k) 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 those States which have 
        any portion of an estuary for which a conservation and 
        management plan has been approved under this section located in 
        their boundaries, shall establish a multimedia national estuary 
        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 such 
        estuaries.
            ``(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 issued under 
        section 402 to discharge into an estuary for which a 
        conservation and management plan has been approved under this 
        section may participate in the demonstration program through--
                    ``(A) the institution of a source reduction 
                practice from the registry developed under paragraph 
                (2) if the conservation and management plan identified 
                the source to be reduced as a problem; 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 
                section 301(b) of 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 estuaries for which 
        conservation and management plans have been approved under this 
        section.
            ``(6) Pollution prevention clearinghouse.--
                    ``(A) Establishment.--The Administrator shall 
                establish a national estuary 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 estuaries referred to in subsection (a)(2)(B) on 
                source reduction methods, measures, techniques, and 
                technologies.
            ``(7) Pollution prevention for cities program.--
                    ``(A) Application for technical assistance.--A 
                municipality located within the watershed of an estuary 
                for which a conservation and management plan has been 
                approved under this section may apply for technical and 
                financial assistance from the Administrator for the 
                purposes of--
                            ``(i) implementing source reduction of 
                        toxic pollutants in urban runoff, wastewater, 
                        and stormwater and to address any problem 
                        resulting from failure of an underground septic 
                        system; or
                            ``(ii) studying the impacts of separating 
                        combined sanitary/stormwater systems in 
                        municipalities which have combined systems.
                    ``(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); and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end of the first 
        sentence the following: ``, and (4) notwithstanding section 
        602(b)(5) of this Act, for carrying out activities relating to 
        estuaries under section 320(k), including implementing a source 
        reduction action plan that has been approved by the 
        Administrator pursuant to section 320(k)(7)''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 607 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1387) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``sums'';
            (2) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4);
            (3) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(6) such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year 
        beginning after September 30, 1994.''.

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