[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3191 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3191

  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to marine 
                          sanitation devices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 1, 1999

  Mr. Saxton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to marine 
                          sanitation devices.

    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 ``Recreational Waters Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REVISED STANDARDS FOR MARINE SANITATION DEVICES.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall review the 
capabilities of existing marine sanitation technology and publish 
revised standards for marine sanitation devices pursuant to section 
312(c)(1)(A) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1322(c)(1)(A)). The revised standards shall require a baseline effluent 
water quality for fecal coliform of not more than 10 milliliters per 
100 milliliters and shall require a reduction in biological oxygen 
demand of at least 50 percent.

SEC. 3. STATE PROHIBITION.

    Section 312(f)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1322(f)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``After'';
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end of the first 
        sentence the following: ``and the State certifies based on the 
        best data available that effluent from marine sanitation 
        devices is impairing water quality and such a prohibition will 
        result in measurable improvements in water quality''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(B) A prohibition under subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a 
vessel that operates a type I or type II marine sanitation device that 
meets the standards for marine sanitation devices revised pursuant to 
section 2 of the Recreational Waters Protection Act and published under 
subsection (c)(1)(A) after the date of enactment of this 
subparagraph.''.
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