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 PUBLIC LAW 95-217—DEC. 27, 1977

91 STAT. 1609

WATER SUPPLY-WASTEWATER TREATMENT COORDINATION

SEC. 72. Section 516 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Report to is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: Congress, "(e) The Administrator, in cooperation with the States, including legislative recommendations. water pollution control agencies, and other water pollution control 33 USC 1375. planning agencies, and water supply and water resources agencies of the States and the United States shall submit to Congress, within two years of the date of enactment of this section, a report with recommendations for legislation on a program to require coordination between water supply and wastewater control plans as a condition to grants for construction of treatment works under this Act. No such report shall be Public hearing, submitted except after opportunity for public hearings on such proposed report.". EXISTING GUIDELINES

SEC. 73. Within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Review and Administrator shall review every effluent guideline promulgated prior adjustments, to the date of enactment of this Act which is final or interim final publication. (other than those applicable to industrial categories listed in table 2 33 USC 1314 note. of Committee Print Numbered 95-30 of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives) and which applies to those pollutants identified pursuant to section 304(a)(4) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The Administrator shall Ante, p. 1587. review every guideline applicable to industrial categories listed in such table 2 on or before July 1, 1980. Upon completion of each such review the Administrator is authorized to make such adjustments in any such guidelines as may be necessary to carry out section 304(b)(4) of such Act. The Administrator shall publish the results of each such review, including, with respect to each such guideline, the determination to adjust or not to adjust such guideline. Any such determination by the Administrator shall be final except that if, on judicial review in accordance with section 509 of such Act, it is determined that the 33 USC 1369 Administrator either did not comply with the requirements of this section or the determination of the Administrator was based on arbitrary and capricious action in applying section 304(b)(4) of such Act to such guideline, the Administrator shall make a further review and redetermination of any such guideline. SEAFOOD PROCESSING STUDY

SEC. 74. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 33 USC 1251 Agency shall conduct a study to examine the geographical, hydro- note. logical, and biological characteristics of marine waters to determine the effects of seafood processes which dispose of untreated natural wastes into such waters. In addition, such study shall examine technologies which may be used in such processes to facilitate the use of the nutrients in these wastes or to reduce the discharge of such wastes into the marine environment. The results of such study shall be sub- Submittal to mitted to Congress not later than January 1, 1979. COST RECOVERY STUDY

SEC. 75. (a) The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 33 USC 1284 Agency (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Administrator") note. shall study the efficiency of, and the need for, the payment by industrial users of any treatment works of that portion of the cost of

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