[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5421 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5421

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from taking certain actions that would allow a publicly-owned treatment 
  works to divert flows to bypass a portion of its treatment facility.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 20, 2004

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from taking certain actions that would allow a publicly-owned treatment 
  works to divert flows to bypass a portion of its treatment facility.

    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 ``Save Our Waters From Sewage Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SEWAGE DUMPING.

    In administering the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination 
System permit program under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall not promulgate any regulations or issue any guidance 
documents that would authorize a publicly-owned treatment works to 
divert flows to bypass a portion of its treatment facility unless the 
bypass is unavoidable to prevent loss of life, personal injury, or 
severe property damage.
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