33 U.S.C. § 1375 — Reports to Congress; detailed estimates and comprehensive study on costs; State estimates

(a) Chapter progress. Within 90 days after each congressional session begins, the Administrator must report, in addition to other required reports, on steps toward this chapter's objective, including: (1) progress and problems with comprehensive, areawide, basin, and section 1313(e) plans; (2) Federal and grant- or contract-supported water-pollution^* research, experiments, studies, and results; (3) progress and problems developing effluent limits and control techniques; (4) State^* program status, including progress against State plans for developing and enforcing water-quality requirements; (5) enforcement actions pending or completed during the prior year; (6) State, interstate, and local programs established or assisted under this chapter; (7) the section 1290 survey results; (8) activities and recommendations under sections 1259–1261; and (9) Water Pollution Control Advisory Board reports and recommendations. (b) Cost estimates. (1) Working with States and their relevant agencies, the Administrator must make: (A) a detailed estimate of carrying out this chapter; (B) a biennially revised estimate of construction costs for all needed publicly owned treatment works^* nationally and in each State; (C) a comprehensive study of how treatment-facility costs affect government units; and (D) a comprehensive analysis of national needs and costs for treating municipal, industrial, and other effluent to meet chapter or State-law water-quality goals. The Administrator must submit the estimates and study to Congress by February 10 of each odd-numbered year. If a State supplies a cost estimate, the Administrator must give Congress a copy with the detailed estimate. (2) Despite that deadline, the Administrator had to submit a preliminary paragraph (1)(B) estimate by September 3, 1974. Each State had to prepare its estimate using survey form EPA-1, O.M.B. No. 158-R0017, distributed by January 31, 1974. The estimate had to include costs for section 1281(g)(2)(A), section 1313 standards, and all section 1292(2) treatment works, including eligible collection systems, infiltration or inflow corrections, combined-sewer corrections, and stormwater treatment. (c) Combined sewer overflows. By October 1, 1978, the Administrator had to report to Congress on their status in municipal treatment works, including: (1) funded projects; (2) State-by-State needs in 1977 priority lists; (3) years each municipality^* would need, assuming $5 billion annually for construction grants; (4) representative comparisons of pollutant^* discharges from overflows and treated effluent; (5) available technologies; and (6) legislative recommendations, including whether to create a separate authorization and grant program. (d) Coordinated planning. Working with the listed State and Federal agencies, the Administrator had to report within two years after December 27, 1977, with legislative recommendations for requiring coordination of water-supply and wastewater-control plans as a condition of treatment-works construction grants. The report could be submitted only after an opportunity for public hearings. (e) State revolving funds. (1) By February 10, 1990, the Administrator had to report on the financial condition and operation of State water-pollution-control revolving funds, working with the States and relevant agencies. (2) The report also had to include: (A) facilities in significant noncompliance; (B) construction costs to bring them into compliance; (C) available financing sources, including funds available through September 30, 1999, from those revolving funds; (D) fund operations, loan portfolios, and loan terms; (E) effects on user charges compared with section 1287 appropriations; and (F) operation and maintenance efficiency of works built with revolving-fund help compared with works built with section 1281 help.