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S. 2779 (97th)
A bill to specify that the release of water from dams is not the discharge of water pollution.
Introduced
27 July 1982
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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14 January 2025
Summary
Amends the Clean Water Act to declare that "discharge of a pollutant or pollutants" does not include controlled or uncontrolled flows of water through, over, or around dams with water quality effects resulting solely from impoundment or from the method of release.
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Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 27 July 1982
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2779
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/97/s/2779