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 91 STAT. 1588 Cost analysis.

PUBLIC LAW 95-217—DEC. 27, 1977 applicable to any point source (other than publicly owned treatment works) within such categories or classes. Factors relating to the assessment of best conventional pollutant control technology (including measures and practices) shall include consideration of the reasonableness of the relationship between the costs of attaining a reduction in effluents and the effluent reduction benefits derived, and the comparison of the cost and level of reduction of such pollutants from the discharge from publicly owned treatment works to the cost and level of reduction of such pollutants from a class or category of industrial sources, and shall take into account the age of equipment and facilities involved, the process employed, the engineering aspects of the application of various types of control techniques, process changes, non-water quality environmental impact (including energy requirements), and such other factors as the Administrator deems appropriate.". IDENTinCATION" AND EVALUATION G U m E L I N E S

Consultation. 33 USC 1314.

Ante, p. 1569.

SEC. 49. Subsection (d) of section 304 of the Federal W a t e r Pollution Control Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: " (3) The Administrator, after consultation with a p p r o p r i a t e Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, shall promulgate within one h u n d r e d and eighty days after the date of enactment of this subsection guidelines for identifying and evaluating innovative and alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques referred to in section 201(g)(5) of this Act.". BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR INDUSTRY

33 USC 1314.

Regulations.

Post, p. 1589. 33 USC 1321.

33 USC 1311, 1312, 1316, 1317, 1343. 33 USC 1342. Supra.

SEC. 50. Section 304 of the Federal W a t e r Pollution Control Act is amended by inserting^ immediately after subsection (d) the following new subsection and by redesignating succeeding subsections, including references thereto, accordingly: " (e) The Administrator, after consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, may publish regulations, supplemental to any effluent limitations specified under subsections (b) and (c) of this section for a class or category of point sources, for any specific pollutant which the Administrator is charged with a duty to regulate as a toxic or hazardous pollutant under section 307(a)(1) or 311 of t h i s Act, to control plant site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or waste disposal, and drainage from raw material storage which the Administrator determines are associated with or ancillary to the industrial manufacturing or treatment process within such class or category of point sources and may contribute significant amounts of such pollutants to navigable waters. Any applicable controls established under this subsection shall be included as a requirement for the purposes of section 301, 302, 306, 307, or 403, as the case may be, in any permit issued to a point source pursuant to section 402 of this Act.". I N T E R A G E N C Y AGREEMENTS

SEC. 51. Section 304(k) of the Federal W a t e r Pollution Control Act as redesignated by this Act is amended to read as follows: " (k)(l) The Administrator shall enter into agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of the Interior, and the heads of such other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States as the Administrator deter-

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