[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 98 (Friday, June 26, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1596-E1597]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                         HON. DANIEL E. LUNGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 25, 2009

  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the 
Republican Leadership standards on earmarks, I rise today to submit the 
following information regarding an earmark I received as part of the 
Interior-Environment Appropriation.
  The following earmark was requested by my office and is listed for 
funding in this bill:
  City of Galt Wastewater Treatment Plant
  Requesting Member: Daniel E. Lungren
  Bill Number: HR 2996
  Account: EPA/STAG Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Project
  Requesting Agency: City of Galt
  Agency Address: 495 Industrial Drive, Galt, CA 95632
  Amount: $500,000
  Description: The City of Galt is being forced to upgrade their 
existing wastewater treatment facility as a result of increased Federal 
water quality mandates. The new wastewater treatment facility will put 
Galt in to compliance with the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination 
System (NPDES). NPDES is the Federal system for the issuance of permits 
under Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments 
of 1972, and many of the stringent NPDES permit requirements are based 
on National Toxics Rule (NTR). The NTR is an Environmental Protection 
Agency regulation that established numeric water quality criteria for 
priority inorganic pollutants for fourteen States and jurisdictions, 
including California,

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into compliance with Section 303 (c)(2)(b) of the Clean Water Act.
  Federal mandates dictate an increased number of contaminants for 
which the City must treat wastewater. The existing WWTP was not 
designed to meet most of the new standards, and therefore must be 
upgraded. The City is subject to mandatory Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) fines until such time as the project is completed. This 
project will enable the City of Galt to come into compliance with these 
Federal mandates.
  This project represents an appropriate use of taxpayer funds as it 
responds to EPA mandates to improve wastewater treatment, to provide 
mitigation against a wider array of water contaminants, in a community 
acutely impacted by the capital demands of such undertaking.

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