[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5176 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5176

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to San Diego 
              ocean discharge and waste water reclamation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 5, 1994

Mr. Filner (for himself, Ms. Schenk, and Mr. Cunningham) 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 relating to San Diego 
              ocean discharge and waste water reclamation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ocean Pollution Reduction Act''.

SEC. 2. SAN DIEGO OCEAN DISCHARGE AND WASTE WATER RECLAMATION.

    Section 301(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1311(j)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A) by inserting before the semicolon 
        at the end the following: ``, and except as provided in 
        paragraph (5)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Extension of application deadline.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In the 180-day period beginning 
                on the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the 
                city of San Diego, California, may apply for a 
                modification pursuant to subsection (h) of the 
                requirements of subsection (b)(1)(B) with respect to 
                biological oxygen demand and total suspended solids in 
                the effluent discharged into marine waters.
                    ``(B) Application.--An application under this 
                paragraph shall include a commitment by the applicant 
                to implement a waste water reclamation program that, at 
                a minimum, will--
                            ``(i) achieve a system capacity of 
                        45,000,000 gallons of reclaimed waste water per 
                        day by January 1, 2010;
                            ``(ii) result in a reduction in the 
                        quantity of suspended solids discharged by the 
                        applicant into the marine environment during 
                        the period of the modification.
                    ``(C) Additional conditions.--The Administrator may 
                not grant a modification pursuant to an application 
                submitted under this paragraph unless the Administrator 
                determines that such modification will result in 
                removal of not less than 58 percent of the biological 
                oxygen demand (on an annual average) and not less than 
                80 percent of total suspended solids (on a monthly 
                average) in the discharge to which the application 
                applies.
                    ``(D) Preliminary decision deadline.--The 
                Administrator shall announce a preliminary decision on 
                an application submitted under this paragraph not later 
                than 1 year after the date the application is 
                submitted.''.
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