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Alternative waste treatment methods. Publication in Federal Register. Secondary treatment information.

Publication in Federal Register. Pretreatment standards guidelines, publication.

PUBLIC LAW 92-500-OCT. 18, 1972

[86 STAT.

result ill the elimination or reduction of the discharge of pollutants to implement standards of performance under section 306 of this Act* Such information shall include technical and other data, including costs, as are available on alternative methods of elimination or reduction of the discharge of pollutants. Such information, and revisions thereof, shall be published in the Federal Register and otherwise shall be made available to the public. Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, shall publish within sixty days after enactment of this title (and from time to time thereafter) information, in terms of amounts of constituents and chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of pollutants, on the degree of effluent reduction attainable through the application of secondary treatment. "(2) The Administrator, after consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, shall publish within nine months after the date of enactment of this title (and from time to time thereafter) information on alternative waste treatment management techniques and systems available to implement section 201 of this Act. "(e) The Administrator, after consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, shall issue to appropriate Federal agencies, the States, water pollution control agencies, and agencies designated under section 208 of this Act, within one year after the effective date of this subsection (and from time to time thereafter) information including (1) guidelines for identifying and evaluating the nature and extent of nonpoint sources of pollutants, and (2) processes, pi-ocedures, and methods to control pollution resulting from— " (A) agricultural and silvicultural activities, including runoff from fields and crop and forest lands; " (B) mining activities, including rmioff and siltation from new, currently operating, and asbandoned surface and underground mines; " (C) all construction activity, including runoff from the facilities resulting from such construction; " (D) the disposal of pollutants in wells or in subsurface excavations; " (E) salt water intrusion resulting from reductions of fresh water ilow from any cause, including extraction of ground water, irria:ation, obstruction, and diversion; and " (F) changes in the movement, flow, or circulation of any navigable waters or ground waters, including changes caused by the oonstruction of (Tarns, levees, channels, causeways, or flow diversion facilities. Such information and revisions thereof shall be published in the Federal Register and otherwise made available to the public. " (f)(1) For the purpose of assisting States in carrying out programs under section 402 of this Act, the Administrator s h d l publish, within one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this title, and review at leas t annually thereafter and, if appropriate, revise guidelines for pretreatment of pollutants which he determines are not susceptible to treatment by publicly owned treatment works. Guidelines under this subsection shall be established to control and prevent the discharge into the navigable waters, the contiguous zone, or the ocean (either directly or through publicly owned treatment works) of any pollutant which interferes with, passes through, or otherwise is incompatible with such works.
 * '(d)(1) The Administrator, after consultation with appropriate

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