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33 U.S.C. § 1315State reports on water quality

submitted 78 years ago by Pub. L. 92-500 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 344 words · no verdicts yet

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Each State must periodically report on its navigable waters, including water quality, aquatic life, recreation, pollution controls, costs and benefits, achievement dates, and nonpoint sources. The EPA Administrator must send the State reports and an analysis to Congress.

(a) Omitted. (b)(1) Each State must submit to the Administrator by April 1, 1975, update by April 1, 1976, and update every two years after that a report covering the preceding year. It must include: (A) the quality of all navigable waters, with seasonal, tidal, and other needed variations, compared with the chapter’s water-quality objective and the quality in subparagraph (B); (B) how much those waters protect and support a balanced population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife and allow recreation in and on the water; (C) how much pollutant elimination and the required water quality have been or will be achieved under this chapter, what more action is needed, and which waters need it; (D) estimates of (i) environmental impact, (ii) economic and social costs to achieve the objective, (iii) economic and social benefits, and (iv) the date of achievement; and (E) the nature and extent of nonpoint pollution sources, programs needed to control each category, and estimated program costs. (2) The Administrator must send the State reports, with an analysis, to Congress by October 1, 1975 and October 1, 1976, and every two years after that.
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(a)

Omitted.

(b)
(1)

Each State shall prepare and submit to the Administrator by April 1, 1975, and shall bring up to date by April 1, 1976, and biennially thereafter, a report which shall include—

(A)

a description of the water quality of all navigable waters in such State during the preceding year, with appropriate supplemental descriptions as shall be required to take into account seasonal, tidal, and other variations, correlated with the quality of water required by the objective of this chapter (as identified by the Administrator pursuant to criteria published under section 1314(a) of this title) and the water quality described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph;

(B)

an analysis of the extent to which all navigable waters of such State provide for the protection and propagation of a balanced population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife, and allow recreational activities in and on the water;

(C)

an analysis of the extent to which the elimination of the discharge of pollutants and a level of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of a balanced population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife and allows recreational activities in and on the water, have been or will be achieved by the requirements of this chapter, together with recommendations as to additional action necessary to achieve such objectives and for what waters such additional action is necessary;

(D)

an estimate of (i) the environmental impact, (ii) the economic and social costs necessary to achieve the objective of this chapter in such State, (iii) the economic and social benefits of such achievement, and (iv) an estimate of the date of such achievement; and

(E)

a description of the nature and extent of nonpoint sources of pollutants, and recommendations as to the programs which must be undertaken to control each category of such sources, including an estimate of the costs of implementing such programs.

(2)

The Administrator shall transmit such State reports, together with an analysis thereof, to Congress on or before October 1, 1975, and October 1, 1976, and biennially thereafter.

Source credit: (June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title III, § 305, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 853; amended Pub. L. 95–217, § 52, Dec. 27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1589.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Pub. L. 92-500 · 86 Stat. 853
  • 1977Amended · Pub. L. 95-217 · 91 Stat. 1589

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