[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3022 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3022

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the sale 
of dishwashing detergent in the United States if the detergent contains 
                      a high level of phosphorus.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 15, 2008

  Mr. Levin (for himself and Mr. Voinovich) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the sale 
of dishwashing detergent in the United States if the detergent contains 
                      a high level of phosphorus.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF CERTAIN DISHWASHING DETERGENT.

    Section 303 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1313) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Prohibition on Sale of Certain Dishwashing Detergent.--
Effective beginning July 1, 2010, the Administrator shall prohibit the 
sale of residential dishwashing detergent in the United States if the 
detergent contains phosphorus in any form in excess of 0.5 percent (by 
weight expressed as elemental phosphorus).''.
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