• United States Code
  • TITLE 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

CHAPTER 26 - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

• § 1251. Congressional declaration of goals and policy.
  • (a) Restoration and maintenance of chemical, physical and biological integrity of Nation's waters; national goals for achievement of objective.
  • (b) Congressional recognition, preservation, and protection of primary responsibilities and rights of States.
  • (c) Congressional policy toward Presidential activities with foreign countries.
  • (d) Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency to administer chapter.
  • (e) Public participation in development, revision, and enforcement of any regulation, etc.
  • (f) Procedures utilized for implementing chapter.
  • (g) Authority of States over water.
• § 1252. Comprehensive programs for water pollution control.
  • (a) Preparation and development.
  • (b) Planning for reservoirs; storage for regulation of streamflow.
  • (c) Basins; grants to State agencies.
• § 1252a. Reservoir projects, water storage; modification; storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality benefits in relation to total project benefits.
• § 1253. Interstate cooperation and uniform laws.
• § 1254. Research, investigations, training, and information.
  • (a) Establishment of national programs; cooperation; investigations; water quality surveillance system; reports.
  • (b) Authorized activities of Administrator.
  • (c) Research and studies on harmful effects of pollutants; cooperation with Secretary of Health and Human Services.
  • (d) Sewage treatment; identification and measurement of effects of pollutants; augmented streamflow.
  • (e) Field laboratory and research facilities.
  • (f) Great Lakes water quality research.
  • (g) Treatment works pilot training programs; employment needs forecasting; training projects and grants; research fellowships; technical training; report to the President and transmittal to Congress.
  • (h) Lake pollution.
  • (i) Oil pollution control studies.
  • (j) Solid waste disposal equipment for vessels.
  • (k) Land acquisition.
  • (l) Collection and dissemination of scientific knowledge on effects and control of pesticides in water.
  • (m) Waste oil disposal study.
  • (n) Comprehensive studies of effects of pollution on estuaries and estuarine zones; reports.
  • (o) Methods of reducing total flow of sewage and unnecessary water consumption; reports.
  • (p) Agricultural pollution.
  • (q) Sewage in rural areas; national clearinghouse for alternative treatment information; clearinghouse on small flows.
  • (r) Research grants to colleges and universities.
  • (s) River Study Centers.
  • (t) Thermal discharges.
  • (u) Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1254a. Research on effects of pollutants.
• § 1255. Grants for research and development.
  • (a) Demonstration projects covering storm waters, advanced waste treatment and water purification methods, and joint treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastes.
  • (b) Demonstration projects for advanced treatment and environmental enhancement techniques to control pollution in river basins.
  • (c) Research and demonstration projects for prevention of water pollution by industry.
  • (d) Accelerated and priority development of waste management and waste treatment methods and identification and measurement methods.
  • (e) Research and demonstration projects covering agricultural pollution and pollution from sewage in rural areas; dissemination of information.
  • (f) Limitations.
  • (g) Maximum grants.
  • (h) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (i) Assistance for research and demonstration projects.
  • (j) Assistance for recycle, reuse, and land treatment projects.
• § 1256. Grants for pollution control programs.
  • (a) Authorization of appropriations for State and interstate programs.
  • (b) Allotments.
  • (c) Maximum annual payments.
  • (d) Limitations.
  • (e) Grants prohibited to States not establishing water quality monitoring procedures or adequate emergency and contingency plans.
  • (f) Conditions.
  • (g) Reallotment of unpaid allotments.
• § 1257. Mine water pollution control demonstrations.
  • (a) Comprehensive approaches to elimination or control of mine water pollution.
  • (b) Consistency of projects with objectives of Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.
  • (c) Watershed selection.
  • (d) Conditions upon Federal participation.
  • (e) Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1257a. State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations.
• § 1258. Pollution control in the Great Lakes.
  • (a) Demonstration projects.
  • (b) Conditions of Federal participation.
  • (c) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (d) Lake Erie demonstration program.
  • (e) Authorization of appropriations for Lake Erie demonstration program.
• § 1259. Training grants and contracts.
• § 1260. Applications; allocation.
• § 1261. Scholarships.
• § 1262. Definitions and authorizations.
• § 1263. Alaska village demonstration projects.
  • (a) Central community facilities for safe water; elimination or control of pollution.
  • (b) Utilization of personnel and facilities of Department of Health and Human Services.
  • (c) Omitted.
  • (d) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (e) Study to develop comprehensive program for achieving sanitation services; report to Congress.
  • (f) Technical, financial, and management assistance.
  • (g) ''Village'' and ''sanitation services'' defined.
• § 1263a. Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages.
  • (a) In general.
  • (b) Federal share.
  • (c) Administrative expenses.
  • (d) Consultation with State of Alaska.
  • (e) Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1264. Omitted.
• § 1265. In-place toxic pollutants.
• § 1266. Hudson River reclamation demonstration project.
• § 1267. Chesapeake Bay.
  • (a) Office.
  • (b) Interstate development plan grants.
  • (c) Reports.
  • (d) Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1268. Great Lakes.
  • (a) Findings, purpose, and definitions.
  • (b) Great Lakes National Program Office.
  • (c) Great Lakes management.
  • (d) Great Lakes research.
  • (e) Research and management coordination.
  • (f) Interagency cooperation.
  • (g) Relationship to existing Federal and State laws and international treaties.
  • (h) Authorizations of Great Lakes appropriations.
• § 1269. Long Island Sound.
  • (a) Office of Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study.
  • (b) Administration and staffing of Office.
  • (c) Duties of Office.
  • (d) Grants.
  • (e) Authorizations.
• § 1270. Lake Champlain Management Conference.
  • (a) Establishment.
  • (b) Membership.
  • (c) Technical Advisory Committee.
  • (d) Research program.
  • (e) Pollution prevention, control, and restoration plan.
  • (f) Grant assistance.
  • (g) ''Lake Champlain drainage basin'' defined.
  • (h) Statutory interpretation.
  • (i) Authorization.
• § 1271. Sediment survey and monitoring.
  • (a) Survey.
  • (b) Monitoring.
• § 1272. Environmental dredging.
  • (a) Operation and maintenance of navigation projects.
  • (b) Nonproject specific.
  • (c) Joint plan requirement.
  • (d) Disposal costs.
  • (e) Limitation on statutory construction.
  • (f) Priority work.

• § 1281. Congressional declaration of purpose.
  • (a) Development and implementation of waste treatment management plans and practices.
  • (b) Application of technology: confined disposal of pollutants; consideration of advanced techniques.
  • (c) Waste treatment management area and scope.
  • (d) Waste treatment management construction of revenue producing facilities.
  • (e) Waste treatment management integration of facilities.
  • (f) Waste treatment management ''open space'' and recreational considerations.
  • (g) Grants to construct publicly owned treatment works.
  • (h) Grants to construct privately owned treatment works.
  • (i) Waste treatment management methods, processes, and techniques to reduce energy requirements.
  • (j) Grants for treatment works utilizing processes and techniques of guidelines under section
  1314(d)(3) of this title.
  • (k) Limitation on use of grants for publicly owned treatment works.
  • (l) Grants for facility plans, or plans, specifications, and estimates for proposed project for construction of treatment works; limitations, allotments, advances, etc.
  • (m) Grants for State of California projects.
  • (n) Water quality problems; funds, scope, etc.
  • (o) Capital financing plan.
  • (p) Time limit on resolving certain disputes.
• § 1281a. Total treatment system funding.
• § 1281b. Availability of Farmers Home Administration funds for non-Federal share.
• § 1282. Federal share.
  • (a) Amount of grants for treatment works.
  • (b) Amount of grants for construction of treatment works not commenced prior to July 1, 1971.
  • (c) Availability of sums allotted to Puerto Rico.
• § 1283. Plans, specifications, estimates, and payments.
  • (a) Submission; contractual nature of approval by Administrator; agreement on eligible costs; single grant.
  • (b) Periodic payments.
  • (c) Final payments.
  • (d) Projects eligible.
  • (e) Technical and legal assistance in administration and enforcement of contracts; intervention in civil actions.
  • (f) Design/build projects.
• § 1284. Limitations and conditions.
  • (a) Determinations by Administrator.
  • (b) Additional determinations; issuance of guidelines; approval by Administrator; system of charges.
  • (c) Applicability of reserve capacity restrictions to primary, secondary, or advanced waste treatment facilities or related interceptors.
  • (d) Engineering requirements; certification by owner and operator; contractual assurances, etc.
• § 1285. Allotment of grant funds.
  • (a) Funds for fiscal years during period June 30,
  1972, and September 30, 1977; determination of amount.
  • (b) Availability and use of funds allotted for fiscal years during period June 30, 1972, and September 30, 1977; reallotment.
  • (c) Funds for fiscal years during period October 1,
  1977, and September 30, 1981; funds for fiscal years 1982 to 1990; determination of amount.
  • (d) Availability and use of funds; reallotment.
  • (e) Minimum allotment; additional appropriations; ratio of amount available.
  • (f) Omitted.
  • (g) Reservation of funds; State management assistance.
  • (h) Alternate systems for small communities.
  • (i) Set-aside for innovative and alternative projects.
  • (j) Water quality management plan; reservation of funds for nonpoint source management.
  • (k) New York City Convention Center.
  • (l) Marine estuary reservation.
  • (m) Discretionary deposits into State water pollution control revolving funds.
• § 1286. Reimbursement and advanced construction.
  • (a) Publicly owned treatment works construction initiated after June 30, 1966, but before July
  1, 1973; reimbursement formula.
  • (b) Publicly owned treatment works construction initiated between June 30, 1956, and June 30,
  1966; reimbursement formula.
  • (c) Application for reimbursement.
  • (d) Allocation of funds.
  • (e) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (f) Additional funds.
• § 1287. Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1288. Areawide waste treatment management.
  • (a) Identification and designation of areas having substantial water quality control problems.
  • (b) Planning process.
  • (c) Regional operating agencies.
  • (d) Conformity of works with area plan.
  • (e) Permits not to conflict with approved plans.
  • (f) Grants.
  • (g) Technical assistance by Administrator.
  • (h) Technical assistance by Secretary of the Army.
  • (i) State best management practices program.
  • (j) Agricultural cost sharing.
• § 1289. Basin planning.
  • (a) Preparation of Level B plans.
  • (b) Reporting requirements.
  • (c) Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1290. Annual survey.
• § 1291. Sewage collection systems.
  • (a) Existing and new systems.
  • (b) Use of population density as test.
  • (c) Pollutant discharges from separate storm sewer systems.
• § 1292. Definitions.
• § 1293. Loan guarantees.
  • (a) State or local obligations issued exclusively to Federal Financing Bank for publicly owned treatment works; determination of eligibility of project by Administrator.
  • (b) Conditions for issuance.
  • (c) Fees for application investigation and issuance of commitment guarantee.
  • (d) Commitment for repayment.
• § 1293a. Contained spoil disposal facilities.
  • (a) Construction, operation, and maintenance; period; conditions; requirements.
  • (b) Time for establishment; consideration of area needs; requirements.
  • (c) Written agreement requirement; terms of agreement.
  • (d) Waiver of construction costs contribution from non-Federal interests; findings of participation in waste treatment facilities for general geographical area and compliance with water quality standards; waiver of payments in event of written agreement before occurrence of findings.
  • (e) Federal payment of costs for disposal of dredged spoil from project.
  • (f) Title to lands, easements, and rights-of-way; retention by non-Federal interests; conveyance of facilities; agreement of transferee.
  • (g) Federal licenses or permits; charges; remission of charge.
  • (h) Provisions applicable to Great Lakes and their connecting channels.
  • (i) Research, study, and experimentation program relating to dredged spoil extended to navigable waters, etc.; cooperative program; scope of program; utilization of facilities and personnel of Federal agency.
  • (j) Period for depositing dredged materials.
  • (k) Study and monitoring program.
• § 1294. Public information and education on recycling and reuse of wastewater, use of land treatment, and reduction of wastewater volume.
• § 1295. Requirements for American materials.
• § 1296. Determination of priority of projects.
• § 1297. Guidelines for cost-effectiveness analysis.
• § 1298. Cost effectiveness.
  • (a) Congressional statement of policy.
  • (b) Determination by Administrator as prerequisite to approval of grant.
  • (c) Value engineering review.
  • (d) Projects affected.
• § 1299. State certification of projects.

• § 1311. Effluent limitations.
  • (a) Illegality of pollutant discharges except in compliance with law.
  • (b) Timetable for achievement of objectives.
  • (c) Modification of timetable.
  • (d) Review and revision of effluent limitations.
  • (e) All point discharge source application of effluent limitations.
  • (f) Illegality of discharge of radiological, chemical, or biological warfare agents, high-level radioactive waste, or medical waste.
  • (g) Modifications for certain nonconventional pollutants.
  • (h) Modification of secondary treatment requirements.
  • (i) Municipal time extensions.
  • (j) Modification procedures.
  • (k) Innovative technology.
  • (l) Toxic pollutants.
  • (m) Modification of effluent limitation requirements for point sources.
  • (n) Fundamentally different factors.
  • (o) Application fees.
  • (p) Modified permit for coal remining operations.
• § 1312. Water quality related effluent limitations.
  • (a) Establishment.
  • (b) Modifications of effluent limitations.
  • (c) Delay in application of other limitations.
• § 1313. Water quality standards and implementation plans.
  • (a) Existing water quality standards.
  • (b) Proposed regulations.
  • (c) Review; revised standards; publication.
  • (d) Identification of areas with insufficient controls; maximum daily load; certain effluent limitations revision.
  • (e) Continuing planning process.
  • (f) Earlier compliance.
  • (g) Heat standards.
  • (h) Thermal water quality standards.
• § 1313a. Revised water quality standards.
• § 1314. Information and guidelines
  • (a) Criteria development and publication.
  • (b) Effluent limitation guidelines.
  • (c) Pollution discharge elimination procedures.
  • (d) Secondary treatment information; alternative waste treatment management techniques; innovative and alternative wastewater treatment processes; facilities deemed equivalent of secondary treatment.
  • (e) Best management practices for industry.
  • (f) Identification and evaluation of nonpoint sources of pollution; processes, procedures, and methods to control pollution.
  • (g) Guidelines for pretreatment of pollutants.
  • (h) Test procedures guidelines.
  • (i) Guidelines for monitoring, reporting, enforcement, funding, personnel, and manpower.
  • (j) Lake restoration guidance manual.
  • (k) Agreements with Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, and the Interior to provide maximum utilization of programs to achieve and maintain water quality; transfer of funds; authorization of appropriations.
  • (l) Individual control strategies for toxic pollutants.
  • (m) Schedule for review of guidelines.
• § 1315. State reports on water quality; transmittal to Congress.
• § 1316. National standards of performance.
  • (a) Definitions.
  • (b) Categories of sources; Federal standards of performance for new sources.
  • (c) State enforcement of standards of performance.
  • (d) Protection from more stringent standards.
  • (e) Illegality of operation of new sources in violation of applicable standards of performance.
• § 1317. Toxic and pretreatment effluent standards.
  • (a) Toxic pollutant list; revision; hearing; promulgation of standards; effective date; consultation.
  • (b) Pretreatment standards; hearing; promulgation; compliance period; revision; application to State and local laws.
  • (c) New sources of pollutants into publicly owned treatment works.
  • (d) Operation in violation of standards unlawful.
  • (e) Compliance date extension for innovative pretreatment systems.
• § 1318. Records and reports; inspections.
  • (a) Maintenance; monitoring equipment; entry; access to information.
  • (b) Availability to public; trade secrets exception; penalty for disclosure of confidential information.
  • (c) Application of State law.
  • (d) Access by Congress.
• § 1319. Enforcement.
  • (a) State enforcement; compliance orders.
  • (b) Civil actions.
  • (c) Criminal penalties.
  • (d) Civil penalties; factors considered in determining amount.
  • (e) State liability for judgments and expenses.
  • (f) Wrongful introduction of pollutant into treatment works.
  • (g) Administrative penalties.
• § 1320. International pollution abatement.
  • (a) Hearing; participation by foreign nations.
  • (b) Functions and responsibilities of Administrator not affected.
  • (c) Hearing board; composition; findings of fact; recommendations; implementation of board's decision.
  • (d) Report by alleged polluter.
  • (e) Compensation of board members.
  • (f) Enforcement proceedings.
• § 1321. Oil and hazardous substance liability.
  • (a) Definitions.
  • (b) Congressional declaration of policy against discharges of oil or hazardous substances; designation of hazardous substances; study of higher standard of care incentives and report to Congress; liability; penalties; civil actions: penalty limitations, separate offenses, jurisdiction, mitigation of damages and costs, recovery of removal costs, alternative remedies, and withholding clearance of vessels.
  • (c) Federal removal authority.
  • (d) National Contingency Plan.
  • (e) Civil enforcement.
  • (f) Liability for actual costs of removal.
  • (g) Third party liability.
  • (h) Rights against third parties who caused or contributed to discharge.
  • (i) Recovery of removal costs.
  • (j) National Response System.
  • (k) Repealed.
  • (l) Administration.
  • (m) Administrative provisions.
  • (n) Jurisdiction.
  • (o) Obligation for damages unaffected; local authority not preempted; existing Federal authority not modified or affected.
  • (p) Repealed.
  • (q) Establishment of maximum limit of liability with respect to onshore or offshore facilities.
  • (r) Liability limitations not to limit liability under other legislation.
  • (s) Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
• § 1322. Marine sanitation devices.
  • (a) Definitions.
  • (b) Federal standards of performance.
  • (c) Initial standards; effective dates; revision; waiver.
  • (d) Vessels owned and operated by the United States.
  • (e) Pre-promulgation consultation.
  • (f) Regulation by States or political subdivisions thereof; complete prohibition upon discharge of sewage.
  • (g) Sales limited to certified devices; certification of test device; recordkeeping; reports.
  • (h) Sale and resale of properly equipped vessels; operability of certified marine sanitation devices.
  • (i) Jurisdiction to restrain violations; contempts.
  • (j) Penalties.
  • (k) Enforcement authority.
  • (l) Boarding and inspection of vessels; execution of warrants and other process.
  • (m) Enforcement in United States possessions.
  • (n) Uniform national discharge standards for vessels of Armed Forces.
• § 1323. Federal facilities pollution control.
• § 1324. Clean lakes.
  • (a) Establishment and scope of program.
  • (b) Financial assistance to States.
  • (c) Maximum amount of grant; authorization of appropriations.
  • (d) Demonstration program.
• § 1325. National Study Commission.
  • (a) Establishment.
  • (b) Membership; chairman.
  • (c) Contract authority.
  • (d) Cooperation of departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of executive branch.
  • (e) Report to Congress.
  • (f) Compensation and allowances.
  • (g) Appointment of personnel.
  • (h) Authorization of appropriation.
• § 1326. Thermal discharges.
  • (a) Effluent limitations that will assure protection and propagation of balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife.
  • (b) Cooling water intake structures.
  • (c) Period of protection from more stringent effluent limitations following discharge point source modification commenced after October 18, 1972.
• § 1327. Omitted.
• § 1328. Aquaculture.
  • (a) Authority to permit discharge of specific pollutants.
  • (b) Procedures and guidelines.
  • (c) State administration.
• § 1329. Nonpoint source management programs.
  • (a) State assessment reports.
  • (b) State management programs.
  • (c) Administrative provisions.
  • (d) Approval or disapproval of reports and management programs.
  • (e) Local management programs; technical assistance.
  • (f) Technical assistance for States.
  • (g) Interstate management conference.
  • (h) Grant program.
  • (i) Grants for protecting groundwater quality.
  • (j) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (k) Consistency of other programs and projects with management programs.
  • (l) Collection of information.
  • (m) Reports of Administrator.
  • (n) Set aside for administrative personnel.
• § 1330. National estuary program.
  • (a) Management conference.
  • (b) Purposes of conference.
  • (c) Members of conference.
  • (d) Utilization of existing data.
  • (e) Period of conference.
  • (f) Approval and implementation of plans.
  • (g) Grants.
  • (h) Grant reporting.
  • (i) Authorization of appropriations.
  • (j) Research.
  • (k) Definitions.

• § 1341. Certification.
  • (a) Compliance with applicable requirements; application; procedures; license suspension.
  • (b) Compliance with other provisions of law setting applicable water quality requirements.
  • (c) Authority of Secretary of the Army to permit use of spoil disposal areas by Federal licensees or permittees.
  • (d) Limitations and monitoring requirements of certification.
• § 1342. National pollutant discharge elimination system.
  • (a) Permits for discharge of pollutants.
  • (b) State permit programs.
  • (c) Suspension of Federal program upon submission of State program; withdrawal of approval of State program; return of State program to Administrator.
  • (d) Notification of Administrator.
  • (e) Waiver of notification requirement.
  • (f) Point source categories.
  • (g) Other regulations for safe transportation, handling, carriage, storage, and stowage of pollutants.
  • (h) Violation of permit conditions; restriction or prohibition upon introduction of pollutant by source not previously utilizing treatment works.
  • (i) Federal enforcement not limited.
  • (j) Public information.
  • (k) Compliance with permits.
  • (l) Limitation on permit requirement.
  • (m) Additional pretreatment of conventional pollutants not required.
  • (n) Partial permit program.
  • (o) Anti-backsliding.
  • (p) Municipal and industrial stormwater discharges.
• § 1343. Ocean discharge criteria.
  • (a) Issuance of permits.
  • (b) Waiver.
  • (c) Guidelines for determining degradation of waters.
• § 1344. Permits for dredged or fill material.
  • (a) Discharge into navigable waters at specified disposal sites.
  • (b) Specification for disposal sites.
  • (c) Denial or restriction of use of defined areas as disposal sites.
  • (d) ''Secretary'' defined.
  • (e) General permits on State, regional, or nationwide basis.
  • (f) Non-prohibited discharge of dredged or fill material.
  • (g) State administration.
  • (h) Determination of State's authority to issue permits under State program; approval; notification; transfers to State program.
  • (i) Withdrawal of approval.
  • (j) Copies of applications for State permits and proposed general permits to be transmitted to Administrator.
  • (k) Waiver.
  • (l) Categories of discharges not subject to requirements.
  • (m) Comments on permit applications or proposed general permits by Secretary of the Interior acting through Director of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • (n) Enforcement authority not limited.
  • (o) Public availability of permits and permit applications.
  • (p) Compliance.
  • (q) Minimization of duplication, needless paperwork, and delays in issuance; agreements.
  • (r) Federal projects specifically authorized by Congress.
  • (s) Violation of permits.
  • (t) Navigable waters within State jurisdiction.
• § 1345. Disposal or use of sewage sludge.
  • (a) Permit.
  • (b) Issuance of permit; regulations.
  • (c) State permit program.
  • (d) Regulations.
  • (e) Manner of sludge disposal.
  • (f) Implementation of regulations.
  • (g) Studies and projects.

• § 1361. Administration.
  • (a) Authority of Administrator to prescribe regulations.
  • (b) Utilization of other agency officers and employees.
  • (c) Recordkeeping.
  • (d) Audit.
  • (e) Awards for outstanding technological achievement or innovative processes, methods, or devices in waste treatment and pollution abatement programs.
  • (f) Detail of Environmental Protection Agency personnel to State water pollution control agencies.
• § 1362. Definitions.
• § 1363. Water Pollution Control Advisory Board.
  • (a) Establishment; composition; terms of office.
  • (b) Functions.
  • (c) Clerical and technical assistance.
• § 1364. Emergency powers.
  • (a) Emergency powers.
  • (b) Repealed.
• § 1365. Citizen suits.
  • (a) Authorization; jurisdiction.
  • (b) Notice.
  • (c) Venue; intervention by Administrator; United States interests protected.
  • (d) Litigation costs.
  • (e) Statutory or common law rights not restricted.
  • (f) Effluent standard or limitation.
  • (g) ''Citizen'' defined.
  • (h) Civil action by State Governors.
• § 1366. Appearance.
• § 1367. Employee protection.
  • (a) Discrimination against persons filing, instituting, or testifying in proceedings under this chapter prohibited.
  • (b) Application for review; investigation; hearing; review.
  • (c) Costs and expenses.
  • (d) Deliberate violations by employee acting without direction from his employer or his agent.
  • (e) Investigations of employment reductions.
• § 1368. Federal procurement.
  • (a) Contracts with violators prohibited.
  • (b) Notification of agencies.
  • (c) Omitted.
  • (d) Exemptions.
  • (e) Annual report to Congress.
  • (f) Contractor certification or contract clause in acquisition of commercial items.
• § 1369. Administrative procedure and judicial review.
  • (a) Subpenas.
  • (b) Review of Administrator's actions; selection of court; fees.
  • (c) Additional evidence.
• § 1370. State authority.
• § 1371. Authority under other laws and regulations.
  • (a) Impairment of authority or functions of officials and agencies; treaty provisions.
  • (b) Discharges of pollutants into navigable waters.
  • (c) Action of the Administrator deemed major Federal action; construction of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
  • (d) Consideration of international water pollution control agreements.
• § 1372. Labor standards.
• § 1373. Public health agency coordination.
• § 1374. Effluent Standards and Water Quality Information Advisory Committee.
  • (a) Establishment; membership; term.
  • (b) Action on proposed regulations.
  • (c) Secretary; legal counsel; compensation.
  • (d) Quorum; special panel.
  • (e) Rules.
• § 1375. Reports to Congress.
  • (a) Implementation of chapter objectives; status and progress of programs.
  • (b) Detailed estimates and comprehensive study on costs; State estimates, survey form.
  • (c) Status of combined sewer overflows in municipal treatment works operations.
  • (d) Legislative recommendations on program requiring coordination between water supply and wastewater control plans as condition for construction grants; public hearing.
  • (e) State revolving fund report.
• § 1376. Authorization of appropriations.
• § 1377. Indian tribes.
  • (a) Policy.
  • (b) Assessment of sewage treatment needs; report.
  • (c) Reservation of funds.
  • (d) Cooperative agreements.
  • (e) Treatment as States.
  • (f) Grants for nonpoint source programs.
  • (g) Alaska native organizations.
  • (h) Definitions.

• § 1381. Grants to States for establishment of revolving funds.
  • (a) General authority.
  • (b) Schedule of grant payments.
• § 1382. Capitalization grant agreements.
  • (a) General rule.
  • (b) Specific requirements.
• § 1383. Water pollution control revolving loan funds.
  • (a) Requirements for obligation of grant funds.
  • (b) Administration.
  • (c) Projects eligible for assistance.
  • (d) Types of assistance.
  • (e) Limitation to prevent double benefits.
  • (f) Consistency with planning requirements.
  • (g) Priority list requirement.
  • (h) Eligibility of non-Federal share of construction grant projects.
• § 1384. Allotment of funds.
  • (a) Formula.
  • (b) Reservation of funds for planning.
  • (c) Allotment period.
• § 1385. Corrective action.
  • (a) Notification of noncompliance.
  • (b) Withholding of payments.
  • (c) Reallotment of withheld payments.
• § 1386. Audits, reports, and fiscal controls; intended use plan.
  • (a) Fiscal control and auditing procedures.
  • (b) Annual Federal audits.
  • (c) Intended use plan.
  • (d) Annual report.
  • (e) Annual Federal oversight review.
  • (f) Applicability of subchapter II provisions.
• § 1387. Authorization of appropriations.