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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 202 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to limit citizens suits against publicly owned treatment works, to p... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Limitation on citizen suit provision

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Section 505 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1365 ) is amended— in subsection
(a)by striking subsection
(b)and inserting subsections
(b)and
(i); and by adding at the end the following: No action may be commenced under subsection (a)(1) by a citizen with respect to a publicly owned treatment works to enforce an effluent standard or limitation under this Act or an order issued by the Administrator or a State with respect to such a standard or limitation unless the publicly owned treatment works is in significant non-compliance, as defined in the Environmental Protection Agency’s December 12, 1996, guidance document entitled A General Design for SNC Redefinition Enhancement in PCS . Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no action may be commenced under subsection (a)(1) with respect to a publicly owned treatment works that is in significant non-compliance based on a manual designation, as defined in the Environmental Protection Agency’s December 12, 1996, guidance document entitled ‘A General Design for SNC Redefinition Enhancement in PCS’. .
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