A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide funds for metropolitan areas which require additional funds for sewage treatment programs.

Summary

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to any municipality or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the construction of publicly owned treatment works. Requires 90 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants each fiscal year to be awarded to those eligible municipalities and intermunicipal or interstate agencies which have demonstrated an ability to utilize grants made under such Act in an effective and timely manner and to award ten percent of such funds to those eligible municipalities and intermunicipal or interstate agencies which are under court orders to complete construction of treatment works.

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Timeline

1. 2 July 1980

   Introduced

   Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 2 July 1980

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 2 July 1980

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Nelson, Gaylord [D-WI] · D · Sponsor
• · ssev00 · Standing

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