SEWAGE DISPOSAL

Bills and resolutions

Appropriations: authorize for sewer overflow control grants (see S. 936), S4963 [30AP]

BLM: convey certain land to Deschutes County, OR (see S. 1140), S5819 [21MY]

Colorado: provide environmental assistance to communities for water supply and treatment projects (see H.R. 1000), H1247 [11FE]

EPA: assist planning and construction of treatment works to intercept, transport, or treat municipal and sanitary sewer overflows, and update guidance used to implement certain clean water programs (see S. 854), S4573 [22AP]

Federal Water Pollution Control Act: reauthorize the sewer overflow control grants program (see H.R. 895), H1043 [4FE]

Food: amend inspection laws to notify consumers of products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on sewage sludge-treated land (see H.R. 185), H34 [6JA]

Great Lakes: establish deadline for restricting sewage dumping and fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges into the Great Lakes (see H.R. 54), H30 [6JA]

Public utilities: enhance security of U.S. public water systems (see H.R. 3258), H8409 [20JY]

———enhance security of wastewater treatment works (see H.R. 2883), H6902 [16JN]

———ensure that publicly owned treatment plants monitor for and report sewer overflows (see H.R. 753), H778 [28JA]

Ships and vessels: establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels (see S. 1820), S10635 [21OC] (see H.R. 3888), H11580 [21OC]

Taxation: provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for facilities for the furnishing of water and sewage facilities (see H.R. 537), H325 [14JA]

Water: improve water and wastewater infrastructure (see S. 1005), S5281 [7MY]

Water pollution: ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of raw sewage (see S. 937), S4963 [30AP]

Letters

Manhattan, KS, Konza waterline extension project funding: Donald E. Gibbons, EPA, H7404 [25JN]

Rebuttal to report on economic stimulus projects relative to characterization of Talking Water Gardens wastewater treatment and water reuse project: Sharon Konopa, Mayor of Albany, OR, E3044 [17DE]

Transportation, water, and sewer system projects funding: Americans for Transportation Mobility (organization), S1381 [3FE]

———Jeffrey D. Shoaf, Associated General Contractors of America, S1381 [3FE]

Remarks in House

Baytown, TX: Central District Wastewater Treatment Plant rehabilitation funding, H12066 [29OC], E1609 [26JN]

Bolton & Menk, Inc.: American Council of Engineering Companies Engineering Excellence Award recipient, E1009 [29AP]

Climate: reduce global warming by addressing methane gas that escapes from municipal solid waste landfills, E547 [4MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program funding, H7807 [8JY]

Manhattan, KS: Konza waterline extension project funding, H7404 [25JN]

Oregon: rebuttal to report on economic stimulus projects relative to characterization of Talking Water Gardens wastewater treatment and water reuse project, E3044 [17DE]

Public utilities: enhance security of U.S. public water systems, H12417 [5NO]

———enhance security of wastewater treatment works, H12419, H12422 [5NO]

Veolia Environmental Services (business): tribute to Port Arthur, TX, facility for sucessful destruction of deadly nerve agent VX, E659 [12MR]

Water: improve water and wastewater infrastructure, H7394 [25JN]

———require water treatment works be certified by a system operator that both water and energy conservation are components of the fiscal sustainability plan, H3369, H3370 [12MR]

Water pollution: combined sewer and sanitary sewer overflow control grant program funding, H3372-H3374 [12MR], E671 [16MR]

Remarks in Senate

BLM: convey certain land to Deschutes County, OR (S. 1140), S5846 [21MY]

EPA: Clean Water State Revolving Funds program funding, S1799 [6FE]

Infrastructure: transportation, water, and sewer system projects funding, S1374-S1376, S1379-S1384, S1386, S1387, S1394 [3FE]

Ships and vessels: establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels (S. 1820), S10637 [21OC]

Water: improve water and wastewater infrastructure (S. 1005), S9630 [22SE]

Reports filed

Drinking Water System Security Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 3258) (H. Rept. 111-313), H11739 [23OC]

Water Infrastructure Financing Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1005) (S. Rept. 111-47), S7555 [15JY]

Tables

Infrastructure spending and job creation by State, S1375 [3FE]

Texts of

S. 1140, La Pine Land Conveyance Act, S5846 [21MY]

S. 1820, Clean Cruise Ship Act, S10638-S10641 [21OC]