PROHIBITION OF SEWAGE DUMPING INTO THE GREAT LAKES SEC. 428 of the Senate’s proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill (a) Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by adding at the end the following: PROHIBITION SEWAGE DUMPING INTO LAKES.— ON THE ‘‘(s) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: ‘‘(1) BYPASS.—The term an intentional diversion of waste ‘‘(A) ‘bypass’ streams to by pass any portion of a treatment facility which results in a discharge into the Great Lakes. DISCHARGE.— ‘‘(B) IN term means a direct or indirect GENERAL.—The ‘‘(i) ‘discharge’ discharge of untreated sewage or partially treated sewage from a treatment works into the Great Lakes or a tributary of the Great Lakes. INCLUSIONS.—The term includes a bypass and a ‘‘(ii) ‘discharge’ combined sewer overflow. term Lakes’ has the meaning given the LAKES.—The ‘‘(C) ‘Great term in section 118(a)(3). PARTIALLY term treated sewage’ TREATED SEWAGE.—The ‘‘(D) ‘partially any sewage, sewage and storm water, or sewage and wastewater, from domestic or industrial sources that— is not treated to national secondary treatment standards ‘‘(i) for waste water; or is treated to a level less than the level required by the ‘‘(ii) applicable national pollutant discharge elimination system permit. TREATMENT term facility’ includes all FACILITY.—The ‘‘(E) ‘treatment wastewater treatment units used by a publicly owned treatment
PROHIBITION OF SEWAGE DUMPING INTO THE GREAT LAKES SEC. 428 of the Senate’s proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill (a) Section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(s) PROHIBITION ON SEWAGE DUMPING INTO THE LAKES.— ‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: ‘‘(A) BYPASS.—The term ‘bypass’ an intentional diversion of waste streams to by pass any portion of a treatment facility which results in a discharge into the Great Lakes. ‘‘(B) DISCHARGE.— ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘discharge’ means a direct or indirect discharge of untreated sewage or partially treated sewage from a treatment works into the Great Lakes or a tributary of the Great Lakes. ‘‘(ii) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘discharge’ includes a bypass and a combined sewer overflow. ‘‘(C) LAKES.—The term ‘Great Lakes’ has the meaning given the term in section 118(a)(3). ‘‘(D) PARTIALLY TREATED SEWAGE.—The term ‘partially treated sewage’ any sewage, sewage and storm water, or sewage and wastewater, from domestic or industrial sources that— ‘‘(i) is not treated to national secondary treatment standards for waste water; or ‘‘(ii) is treated to a level less than the level required by the applicable national pollutant discharge elimination system permit. ‘‘(E) TREATMENT FACILITY.—The term ‘treatment facility’ includes all wastewater treatment units used by a publicly owned treatment
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