Possible amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act: hearings before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, February 23; August 2; September 20, 22; October 18, 19, 20; November 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 1983

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Page 1239 - ( 1 ) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985 ; " (2) it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides frr recreation in and on the water...
Page 1346 - I certify under penalty of law that I have personally examined and am familiar with the Information submitted in this demonstration and all attached documents, and that, based on my Inquiry of those Individuals Immediately responsible for obtaining the Information, I believe that the submitted Information is true, accurate, and complete. I am aware that there are significant penalties for submitting false Information. Including the possibility of fine and Imprisonment.
Page 1371 - ... except that if the conviction is for a violation committed after a first conviction of such person...
Page 1367 - Point source means any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, landfill leachate collection system, vessel or other floating craft from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
Page 1367 - pollutant' means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water. This term does not mean (A) 'sewage from vessels...
Page 2265 - Act means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, which impounds or diverts water, and which (1) is twenty-five feet or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or watercourse measured at the downstream toe of the barrier, or from the lowest elevation of the outside limit of the barrier, if it is not across a stream channel or watercourse, to the maximum water storage elevation or (2) has an impounding capacity at maximum water storage elevation of fifty acre-feet or more.
Page 1674 - (3) The Administrator may, as to any permit application, waive paragraph (2) of this subsection. "(e) In accordance with guidelines promulgated pursuant to subsection (h) (2) of section 304 of this Act, the Administrator is authorized to waive the requirements of subsection (d) of this section at the time he approves a program pursuant to subsection...
Page 2258 - Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and the Council of State Governments...
Page 1674 - State with a program approved pursuant to subsection (h)(2)(A) of this section. The Administrator may distinguish among classes, types, and sizes within any category of discharges.
Page 1637 - ... it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water be achieved by July 1, 1983; (3) it is the national policy that the discharge of toxic pollutants in toxic amounts be prohibited...

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