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Appendix A: Water Quality Management in the United States: Major Related Legislation
Appendix A: Water Quality Management in the United States: Major Related Legislation
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401, Section 131. Any activities that could impact the navigable waterways, by obstructing excavations, filling navigable waters, discharging of refuse matter, or causing injury to harbor or river improvements or flood control devices required a permit from the Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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It also authorized the federal government for the first time to make loans to municipalities for the construction of sewage treatment facilities, although no actual funds were appropriated (Portney, 1990~. At this time, the responsibility for compliance and enforcement of water pollution control was left entirely to the state and local governments.
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. The requirements of the Clean Water Act signified that the federal government was assuming primary direction of water pollution control for the nation (Portney, 1990~.
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THE CLEAN WATER ACT OF 1977 These 1977 amendments were the first major revision of the CWA of 1972 [Public Law 95-2171. The amendments encouraged states to manage the construction grants program for POTWs under Section 205, as well as the standards and enforcement responsibility of the NPDES permit program under Section 402 (Portney, 1990; WEF and Kovalic, 1993~.
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was to reform the federal construction grant program for municipal wastewater treatment plants, which had been creating major reductions in federal financial assistance to the local governments for the construction of wastewater treatment facilities. The amendments also extended the national deadline for meeting full secondary treatment deadlines to 1988 (Portney, 1990; WEF and Kovalic, 1993~.
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to use funds from state revolving fund loans for statewide NPS management plans, and for programs to protect ground water from NPS pollution as well [Section 3 19~1~] (WEF and Kovalic, 1993~.
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