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The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution. ... Oil Pollution Act of 1990; Safe Drinking Water Act;
The 1966 Clean Water Restoration Act authorized a study to determine the effects of pollution on wildlife, recreation, and water supplies. The Act also set forth guidelines for abatement of water that may flow into international territory and prohibited the dumping of oil into navigable waters of the United States. [16] The Water Quality ...
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are pollution control standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The term is used in the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (CAA) to refer to air pollution emission standards, and in the Clean Water Act (CWA) referring to standards for water pollution discharges of industrial wastewater to surface waters.
The complaint points to two federal court rulings that found that under the Clean Water Act, CAFOs could not be required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to get a permit before ...
As a result Congress placed oil pollution under the authority of the Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970 [5] (later amended by the Clean Water Act in 1972). The 1970 law set specific liability limitations. For example, vessels transporting oil were liable only up to $250,000 or $150 per gross ton.
Subchapter D - Water Programs (Parts 100 - 149) Clean Water Act [3] Public Hearings on Effluent Standards for Toxic Pollutants; Recognition Awards Under the Clean Water Act; Employee Protection Hearings; Criteria for State, Local and Regional Oil Removal Contingency Plans; Discharge of Oil; Oil Pollution Prevention
The Clean Water Justice Act, or SB 653 and HB 1101, protects communities’ rights to sue when the rules are broken, retaining the power of the people most directly threatened by pollution. It ...
Obama campaigned to amend the Clean Water Act and to extend the Swamp buster program, however these commitments have yet to be followed-through with. Barack Obama’s administration is also working with Congress to amend the Clean Water Act so that isolated wetlands will fall under the Act’s protection. [13]