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Clean Water Act:
A Summary of the Law
Updated January 24, 2002
Claudia Copeland
Specialist in Environmental Policy
Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress

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Clean Water Act: A Summary of the Law
Summary
The principal law governing pollution of the nation’s surface waters is the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or Clean Water Act. Originally enacted in
1948, it was totally revised by amendments in 1972 that gave the Act its current
shape. The 1972 legislation spelled out ambitious programs for water quality
improvement that have since been expanded and are still being implemented by
industries and municipalities.
This report presents a summary of the law, describing the essence of the statute
without discussing its implementation. Other CRS products do discuss
implementation. For example, see CRS Issue Brief IB89102, Implementing the Clean
Water Act, and numerous CRS products cited in that issue brief.
The Clean Water Act consists of two major parts, one being the provisions which
authorize federal financial assistance for municipal sewage treatment plant
construction. The other is the regulatory requirements that apply to industrial and
municipal dischargers. The Act has been termed a technology-forcing statute because
of the rigorous demands placed on those who are regulated by it to achieve higher and
higher levels of pollution abatement under deadlines specified in the law. Early on,
emphasis was on controlling discharges of conventional pollutants (e.g., suspended
solids or bacteria that are biodegradable and occur naturally in the aquatic
environment), while control of toxic pollutant discharges has been a key focus of
water quality programs more recently.
Prior to 1987, programs were primarily directed at point source pollution, wastes
discharged from discrete sources such as pipes and outfalls. Amendments in that year
authorized measures to address nonpoint source pollution (stormwater runoff from
farm lands, forests, construction sites, and urban areas), now estimated to represent
more than 50% of the nation’s remaining water pollution problems.
Under this Act, federal jurisdiction is broad, particularly regarding establishment
of national standards or effluent limitations. Certain responsibilities are delegated to
the states, and the Act embodies a philosophy of federal-state partnership in which the
federal government sets the agenda and standards for pollution abatement, while
states carry out day-to-day activities of implementation and enforcement.
To achieve its objectives, the Act embodies the concept that all discharges into
the nation’s waters are unlawful, unless specifically authorized by a permit, which is
the Act’s principal enforcement tool. The law has civil, criminal, and administrative
enforcement provisions and also permits citizen suit enforcement.
Financial assistance for constructing municipal sewage treatment plants and
certain other types of water quality improvements projects is authorized under title
VI. It authorizes grants to capitalize State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds,
or loan programs. States contribute matching funds, and under the revolving loan
fund concept, monies used for wastewater treatment construction will be repaid to a
state, to be available for future construction in other communities.

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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Federal and State Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Titles II and VI — Municipal Wastewater Treatment Construction . . . . . . 5
Permits, Regulations, and Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Selected References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
List of Tables
Table 1. Clean Water Act and Major Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Table 2. Major U.S. Code Sections of the Clean Water Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Clean Water Act: A Summary of the Law
Introduction
The principal law governing pollution of the nation’s surface waters is the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or Clean Water Act. Originally enacted in
1948, it was totally revised by amendments in 1972 that gave the Act its current
shape. The 1972 legislation spelled out ambitious programs for water quality
improvement that have since been expanded and are still being implemented by
industries and municipalities. Congress made certain fine-tuning amendments in 1977,
revised portions of the law in 1981, and enacted further amendments in 1987.
This report presents a summary of the law, describing the essence of the statute.
It is an excerpt from a larger document, CRS Report RL30798, Environmental
Protection Laws: Summaries of Statutes Administered by the Environmental
Protection Agency. Many details and secondary provisions are omitted here, and
even some major components are only briefly mentioned. Further, this report
describes the statute without discussing its implementation. Other CRS products are
more current and discuss implementation concerns. For example, see CRS Issue Brief
IB89102, Implementing the Clean Water Act. Table 1 shows the original enactment
and subsequent major amendments. Table 2, at the end of this report, cites the major
U.S. Code sections of the codified statute.
Table 1. Clean Water Act and Major Amendments
(codified generally as 33 U.S.C. 1251-1387)
Year
Act
Public Law
1948
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
P.L. 80-845
(Act of June 30, 1948)
1956
Water Pollution Control Act of 1956
P.L. 84-660
(Act of July 9, 1956)
1961
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
P.L. 87-88
Amendments
1965
Water Quality Act of 1965
P.L. 89-234
1966
Clean Water Restoration Act
P.L. 89-753
1970
Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970
P.L. 91-224, Part I
1972
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
P.L. 92-500
Amendments
1977
Clean Water Act of 1977
P.L. 95-217
1981
Municipal Wastewater Treatment
P.L. 97-117
Construction Grants Amendments
1987
Water Quality Act of 1987
P.L. 100-4

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Authorizations for appropriations to support the law generally expired at the end
of fiscal year 1990 (Sept. 30, 1990). Programs did not lapse, however, and Congress
has continued to appropriate funds to carry out the Act. Since the 1987 amendments,
although Congress has enacted several bills that reauthorize and modify a number of
individual provisions in the law, none comprehensively addressed major programs or
requirements.
Background
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the first comprehensive
statement of federal interest in clean water programs, and it specifically provided state
and local governments with technical assistance funds to address water pollution
problems, including research. Water pollution was viewed as primarily a state and
local problem, hence, there were no federally required goals, objectives, limits, or
even guidelines. When it came to enforcement, federal involvement was strictly
limited to matters involving interstate waters and only with the consent of the state
in which the pollution originated.
During the latter half of the 1950s and well into the 1960s, water pollution
control programs were shaped by four laws which amended the 1948 statute. They
dealt largely with federal assistance to municipal dischargers and with federal
enforcement programs for all dischargers. During this period, the federal role and
federal jurisdiction were gradually extended to include navigable intrastate, as well as
interstate, waters. Water quality standards became a feature of the law in 1965,
requiring states to set standards for interstate waters that would be used to determine
actual pollution levels and control requirements. By the late 1960s, there was a
widespread perception that existing enforcement procedures were too time-
consuming and that the water quality standards approach was flawed because of
difficulties in linking a particular discharger to violations of stream quality standards.
Additionally, there was mounting frustration over the slow pace of pollution cleanup
efforts and a suspicion that control technologies were being developed but not applied
to the problems. These perceptions and frustrations, along with increased public
interest in environmental protection, set the stage for the 1972 amendments.
The 1972 statute did not continue the basic components of previous laws as
much as it set up new ones. It set optimistic and ambitious goals, required all
municipal and industrial wastewater to be treated before being discharged into
waterways, increased federal assistance for municipal treatment plant construction,
strengthened and streamlined enforcement, and expanded the federal role while
retaining the responsibility of states for day-to-day implementation of the law.
The 1972 legislation declared as its objective the restoration and maintenance of
the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation’s waters. Two goals also
were established: zero discharge of pollutants by 1985 and, as an interim goal and
where possible, water quality that is both “fishable” and “swimmable” by mid-1983.
While those dates have passed, the goals remain, and efforts to attain them continue.

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Overview
The Clean Water Act (CWA) today consists of two major parts, one being the title
II and title VI provisions which authorize federal financial assistance for municipal
sewage treatment plant construction. The other is the regulatory requirements, found
throughout the Act, that apply to industrial and municipal dischargers.
The Act has been termed a technology-forcing statute because of the rigorous
demands placed on those who are regulated by it to achieve higher and higher levels
of pollution abatement. Industries were given until July 1, 1977, to install “best
practicable control technology” (BPT) to clean up waste discharges. Municipal
wastewater treatment plants were required to meet an equivalent goal, termed
“secondary treatment,” by that date. (Municipalities unable to achieve secondary
treatment by that date were allowed to apply for case-by-case extensions up to July
1, 1988. According to EPA, 86% of all cities met the 1988 deadline; the remainder
were put under judicial or administrative schedules requiring compliance as soon as
possible. However, many cities, especially smaller ones, continue to make
investments in building or upgrading facilities needed to achieve secondary treatment.)
Cities that discharge wastes into marine waters were eligible for case-by-case waivers
of the secondary treatment requirement, where sufficient showing could be made that
natural factors provide significant elimination of traditional forms of pollution and that
both balanced populations of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and water quality standards
would be protected.
The primary focus of BPT was on controlling discharges of conventional
pollutants, such as suspended solids, biochemical oxygen demanding materials, fecal
coliform and bacteria, and pH. These pollutants are substances which are
biodegradable (i.e., bacteria can break them down), occur naturally in the aquatic
environment, and deplete the dissolved oxygen concentration in water which is
necessary for fish and other aquatic life.
The Act required greater pollutant cleanup than BPT by no later than March 31,
1989, generally demanding that industry use the “best available technology” (BAT)
that is economically achievable. BAT level controls generally focus on toxic
substances. Compliance extensions of as long as 2 years are available for industrial
sources utilizing innovative or alternative technology. Failure to meet statutory
deadlines could lead to enforcement action.
The Act utilizes both water quality standards and technology-based effluent
limitations to protect water quality. Technology-based effluent limitations are specific
numerical limitations established by EPA and placed on certain pollutants from certain
sources. They are applied to industrial and municipal sources through numerical
effluent limitations in discharge permits (see discussion of Permits, Regulation, and
Enforcement, below). Water quality standards are standards for the overall quality
of water. They consist of the designated beneficial use or uses of a waterbody
(recreation, water supply, industrial, or other), plus a numerical or narrative statement
identifying maximum concentrations of various pollutants which would not interfere
with the designated use. The Act requires each state to establish water quality
standards for all bodies of water in the state. These standards serve as the backup to
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controls are needed to achieve the overall goals of the Act. In waters where industrial
and municipal sources have achieved technology-based effluent limitations, yet water
quality standards have not been met, dischargers may be required to meet additional
pollution control requirements.
Control of toxic pollutant discharges has been a key focus of water quality
programs. In addition to the BPT and BAT national standards, states are required to
implement control strategies for waters expected to remain polluted by toxic
chemicals even after industrial dischargers have installed the best available cleanup
technologies required under the law. Development of management programs for
these post-BAT pollutant problems was a prominent element in the 1987 amendments
and is a key continuing aspect of CWA implementation.
Prior to the 1987 amendments, programs in the Clean Water Act were primarily
directed at point source pollution, wastes discharged from discrete and identifiable
sources, such as pipes and other outfalls. In contrast, except for general planning
activities, little attention had been given to nonpoint source pollution (stormwater
runoff from agricultural lands, forests, construction sites, and urban areas), despite
estimates that it represents more than 50% of the nation’s remaining water pollution
problems. As it travels across land surface towards rivers and streams, rainfall and
snowmelt runoff picks up pollutants, including sediments, toxic materials, and
conventional wastes (e.g., nutrients) that can degrade water quality.
The 1987 amendments authorized measures to address such pollution by
directing states to develop and implement nonpoint pollution management programs
(section 319 of the Act). States were encouraged to pursue groundwater protection
activities as part of their overall nonpoint pollution control efforts. Federal financial
assistance was authorized to support demonstration projects and actual control
activities. These grants may cover up to 60% of program implementation costs.
While the Act imposes great technological demands, it also recognizes the need
for comprehensive research on water quality problems. This is provided throughout
the statute, on topics including pollution in the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay,
in-place toxic pollutants in harbors and navigable waterways, and water pollution
resulting from mine drainage. The Act also provides support to train personnel who
operate and maintain wastewater treatment facilities.
Federal and State Responsibilities. Under this Act, federal jurisdiction
is broad, particularly regarding establishment of national standards or effluent
limitations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues regulations
containing the BPT and BAT effluent standards applicable to categories of industrial
sources (such as iron and steel manufacturing, organic chemical manufacturing,
petroleum refining, and others). Certain responsibilities are delegated to the states,
and this Act, like other environmental laws, embodies a philosophy of federal-state
partnership in which the federal government sets the agenda and standards for
pollution abatement, while states carry out day-to-day activities of implementation
and enforcement. Delegated responsibilities under the Act include authority for
qualified states to issue discharge permits to industries and municipalities and to
enforce permits. (As of January 2002, 45 states had been delegated responsibility for
this permit program; EPA issues discharge permits in the remaining states.)

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In addition, as noted above, states are responsible for establishing water quality
standards.
Titles II and VI — Municipal Wastewater Treatment
Construction
Federal law has authorized grants for planning, design, and construction of
municipal sewage treatment facilities since 1956 (Act of July 9, 1956, or P.L.
84-660). Congress greatly expanded this grant is program in 1972 in order to assist
cities in meeting the Act’s pollution control requirements. Since that time Congress
has authorized $65 billion and appropriated $73 billion in funds to aid wastewater
treatment plant construction. Grants are allocated among the states according to a
complex statutory formula that combines two factors: state population and an
estimate of municipal sewage treatment funding needs derived from a biennial survey
conducted by EPA and the states. The most recent estimate, completed in 1996,
indicates that $140 billion more would be required to build and upgrade needed
municipal wastewater treatment plants in the United States and for other types of
water quality improvement projects that are eligible for funding under the Act.
Under the title II construction grants program established in 1972, federal grants
were made for several types of projects (such as secondary or more stringent
treatment and associated sewers) based on a priority list established by the states.
Grants were generally available for as much as 55% of total project costs. For
projects using innovative or alternative technology (such as reuse or recycling of
water), as much as 75% federal funding was allowed. Recipients were responsible for
non-federal costs but were not required to repay federal grants.
Policymakers have debated the tension between assisting municipal funding needs,
which remain large, and the impact of aid programs such as the Clean Water Act’s on
federal spending and budget deficits. In the 1987 amendments to the Act, Congress
attempted to deal with that apparent conflict by extending federal aid for wastewater
treatment construction through fiscal year 1994, yet providing a transition towards
full state and local government responsibility for financing after that date. Grants
under the traditional title II program were authorized through fiscal year 1990. Under
title VI of the Act, grants to capitalize State Water Pollution Control Revolving
Funds, or loan programs, were authorized beginning in fiscal year 1989 to replace the
title II grants. States contribute matching funds, and under the revolving loan fund
concept, monies used for wastewater treatment construction will be repaid to a state
fund, to be available for future construction in other communities. All states now
have functioning loan programs, but the shift from federal grants to loans, since fiscal
year 1991, has been easier for some than others. The new financing requirements
have been a problem for cities (especially small towns) that have difficulty repaying
project loans. Statutory authorization for grants to capitalize state loan programs
expired in 1994; however, Congress has continued to provide annual appropriations.
An issue affecting some cities is overflow discharges of inadequately treated wastes
from municipal sewers and how cities will pay for costly remediation projects. In
2000, Congress amended the Act to authorize a $1.5 billion grant program to help
cities reduce these wet weather flows.

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Permits, Regulations, and Enforcement
To achieve its objectives, the Act embodies the concept that all discharges into
the nation’s waters are unlawful, unless specifically authorized by a permit. Thus,
more than 65,000 industrial and municipal dischargers must obtain permits from EPA
(or qualified states) under the Act’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) program (authorized in section 402 of the Act). An NPDES permit
requires the discharger (source) to attain technology-based effluent limits (BPT or
BAT for industry, secondary treatment for municipalities, or more stringent for water
quality protection). Permits specify the control technology applicable to each
pollutant, the effluent limitations a discharger must meet, and the deadline for
compliance. Sources are required to maintain records and to carry out effluent
monitoring activities. Permits are issued for 5-year periods and must be renewed
thereafter to allow continued discharge.
The NPDES permit incorporates numerical effluent limitations issued by EPA.
The initial BPT limitations focused on regulating discharges of conventional
pollutants, such as bacteria and oxygen-consuming materials. The more stringent
BAT limitations emphasize controlling toxic pollutants — heavy metals, pesticides,
and other organic chemicals. In addition to these limitations applicable to categories
of industry, EPA has issued water quality criteria for more than 115 pollutants,
including 65 named classes or categories of toxic chemicals, or “priority pollutants.”
These criteria recommend ambient, or overall, concentration levels for the pollutants
and provide guidance to states for establishing water quality standards that will
achieve the goals of the Act.
A separate type of permit is required to dispose of dredge or fill material in the
nation’s waters, including wetlands. Authorized by section 404 of the Act, this permit
program is administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, subject to and using
EPA’s environmental guidance. Some types of activities are exempt from permit
requirements, including certain farming, ranching, and forestry practices which do not
alter the use or character of the land; some construction and maintenance; and
activities already regulated by states under other provisions of the Act. EPA may
delegate certain section 404 permitting responsibility to qualified states and has done
so twice (Michigan and New Jersey). For some time, the Act’s wetlands permit
program has become one of the most controversial parts of the law. Some who wish
to develop wetlands maintain that federal regulation intrudes on and impedes private
land-use decisions, while environmentalists seek more protection for remaining
wetlands and limits on activities that take place in wetlands.
Nonpoint sources of pollution, which EPA and states believe are responsible for
the majority of water quality impairments in the nation, are not subject to CWA
permits or other regulatory requirements under federal law. They are covered by state
programs for the management of runoff, under section 319 of the Act.
Other EPA regulations under the CWA include guidelines on using and disposing
of sewage sludge and guidelines for discharging pollutants from land-based sources
into the ocean. (A related statute, the Ocean Dumping Act, regulates the intentional
disposal of wastes into ocean waters.) EPA also provides guidance on technologies
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The NPDES permit, containing effluent limitations on what may be discharged
by a source, is the Act’s principal enforcement tool. EPA may issue a compliance
order or bring a civil suit in U.S. district court against persons who violate the terms
of a permit. The penalty for such a violation can be as much as $25,000 per day.
Stiffer penalties are authorized for criminal violations of the Act — for negligent or
knowing violations — of as much as $50,000 per day, 3 years’ imprisonment, or
both. A fine of as much as $250,000, 15 years in prison, or both, is authorized for
‘knowing endangerment’ — violations that knowingly place another person in
imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. Finally, EPA is authorized to
assess civil penalties administratively for certain well-documented violations of the
law. These civil and criminal enforcement provisions are contained in section 309 of
the Act. EPA, working with the Army Corps of Engineers, also has responsibility for
enforcing against entities who engage in activities that destroy or alter wetlands.
While the CWA addresses federal enforcement, the majority of actions taken to
enforce the law are undertaken by states, both because states issue the majority of
permits to dischargers and because the federal government lacks the resources for
day-to-day monitoring and enforcement. Like most other federal environmental laws,
CWA enforcement is shared by EPA and states, with states having primary
responsibility. However, EPA has oversight of state enforcement and retains the right
to bring a direct action where it believes that a state has failed to take timely and
appropriate action or where a state or local agency requests EPA involvement.
Finally, the federal government acts to enforce against criminal violations of the
federal law.
In addition, individuals may bring a citizen suit in U.S. district court against
persons who violate a prescribed effluent standard or limitation. Individuals also may
bring citizen suits against the Administrator of EPA or equivalent state official (where
program responsibility has been delegated to the state) for failure to carry out a
nondiscretionary duty under the Act.
Selected References
Loeb, Penny. Very Troubled Waters. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, vol. 125, no.
12. Sept. 28, 1998. pp. 39, 41-42.
Schneider, Paul. Clear Progress, 25 Years of the Clean Water Act. AUDUBON.
September/October 1997. pp. 36-47, 106-107.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Water. Environmental Indicators
of Water Quality in the United States. EPA 841-R-96-002. June 1996. 30 p.
—— The Quality of Our Nation’s Water: 1998 Report to Congress. Washington,
June 2000. EPA841-R-00-001. 413 p.
U.S. General Accounting Office. Key EPA and State Decisions Limited by
Inconsistent and Incomplete Data. GAO/RCED-00-54. March 2000. 73 p.
—— Water Quality, A Catalog of Related Federal Programs. GAO/RCED-96-
173. 64 p.

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Table 2. Major U.S. Code Sections of the Clean Water Act1
(codified generally as 33 U.S.C. 1251-1387)
Clean Water Act
33 U.S.C.
Section Title
(as amended)
Subchapter I -
Research and Related Programs
1251
Congressional declaration of goals and policy
sec. 101
1252
Comprehensive programs for water pollution
sec. 102
control
1253
Interstate cooperation and uniform laws
sec. 103
1254
Research, investigations, training and
sec. 104
information
1255
Grants for research and development
sec. 105
1256
Grants for pollution control programs
sec. 106
1257
Mine water pollution demonstrations
sec. 107
1258
Pollution control in the Great Lakes
sec. 108
1259
Training grants and contracts
sec. 109
1260
Applications for training grants and contracts;
sec. 110
allocations
1261
Scholarships
sec. 111
1262
Definitions and authorization
sec. 112
1263
Alaska village demonstration project
sec. 113
1265
In-place toxic pollutants
sec. 115
1266
Hudson River reclamation demonstration
sec. 116
project
1267
Chesapeake Bay
sec. 117
1268
Great Lakes
sec. 118
1269
Long Island Sound
sec. 119
1270
Lake Champlain management conference
sec. 120
1271
Sediment survey and monitoring
sec. 121
1272
Environmental dredging
sec. 122
1273
Lake Pontchartrain Basin
sec. 123
1274
Wet weather watershed pilot projects
sec. 124
Subchapter II - Grants for Construction of Treatment Works
1281
Congressional declaration of purpose
sec. 201
1282
Federal share
sec. 202
1283
Plans, specifications, estimates, and payments
sec. 203
1284
Limitations and conditions
sec. 204
1285
Allotment of grant funds
sec. 205
1286
Reimbursement and advanced construction
sec. 206
1287
Authorization of appropriations
sec. 207
1288
Areawide waste treatment management
sec. 208
1289
Basin planning
sec. 209
1290
Annual survey
sec. 210
1291
Sewage collection system
sec. 211
1NOTE: This table shows only the major code sections. For more detail and to determine
when a section was added, the reader should consult the official printed version of the U.S.
Code.

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Clean Water Act
33 U.S.C.
Section Title
(as amended)
1292
Definitions
sec. 212
1293
Loan guarantees
sec. 213
1294
Wastewater recycling and reuse information
sec. 214
and education
1295
Requirements for American materials
sec. 215
1296
Determination of priority
sec. 216
1297
Guidelines for cost-effective analysis
sec. 217
1298
Cost effectiveness
sec. 218
1299
State certification of projects
sec. 219
1300 Pilot program for alternative water source projects sec. 220
1301
Sewer overflow control grants
sec. 221
Subchapter III - Standards and Enforcement
1311
Effluent Limitations
sec. 301
1312
Water quality-related effluent limitations
sec. 302
1313
Water quality standards and implementation
sec. 303
plans
1314
Information and guidelines
sec. 304
1315
State reports on water quality
sec. 305
1316
National standards of performance
sec. 306
1317
Toxic and pretreatment effluent standards
sec. 307
1318
Records and reports, inspections
sec. 308
1319
Enforcement
sec. 309
1320
International pollution abatement
sec. 310
1321
Oil and hazardous substance liability
sec. 311
1322
Marine sanitation devices
sec. 312
1323
Federal facility pollution control
sec. 313
1324
Clean lakes
sec. 314
1325
National study commission
sec. 315
1326
Thermal discharges
sec. 316
1327
Omitted (alternative financing)
sec. 317
1328
Aquaculture
sec. 318
1329
Nonpoint source management program
sec. 319
1330
National estuary study
sec. 320
Subchapter IV - Permits and Licenses
1341
Certification
sec. 401
1342
National pollutant discharge elimination system
sec. 402
1343
Ocean discharge criteria
sec. 403
1344
Permits for dredge and fill materials
sec. 404
1345
Disposal or use of sewage sludge
sec. 405
1346 Coastal recreation water quality monitoring sec. 406
and notification
Subchapter V - General Provisions
1361
Administration
sec. 501
1362
Definitions
sec. 502
1363
Water pollution control advisory board
sec. 503

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Clean Water Act
33 U.S.C.
Section Title
(as amended)
1364
Emergency powers
sec. 504
1365
Citizen suits
sec. 505
1366
Appearance
sec. 506
1367
Employee protection
sec. 507
1368
Federal procurement
sec. 508
1369
Administrative procedure and judicial review
sec. 509
1370
State authority
sec. 510
1371
Authority under other laws and regulations
sec. 511
1372
Labor standards
sec. 513
1373
Public health agency coordination
sec. 514
1374
Effluent standards and water quality
sec. 515
information advisory committee
1375
Reports to Congress
sec. 516
1376
Authorization of appropriations
sec. 517
1377
Indian tribes
sec. 518
Subchapter VI - State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds
1381
Grants to states for establishment of revolving
sec. 601
funds
1382
Capitalization grant agreements
sec. 602
1383
Water pollution control revolving loan funds
sec. 603
1384
Allotment of funds
sec. 604
1385
Corrective actions
sec. 605
1386
Audits, reports, fiscal controls, intended use
sec. 606
plan
1387
Authorization of appropriations
sec. 607

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