Sec. 17. Review of secondary treatment technologies
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Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall publish in the Federal Register a notice to solicit public comment (including the opportunity for public hearings and listening sessions) on the collection of data regarding the existing capabilities of publicly owned treatment works to reduce the effluent concentration of pathogens (or pathogen indicators) in the discharge of such treatment works, in order to determine an appropriate means to collect such data in a sufficient amount, and of a sufficient quality, to develop a representational sample of such capabilities.
Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall publish in the Federal Register the data collection means determined appropriate pursuant to paragraph
(1)and initiate the collection of data using such means. Upon completion of data collection pursuant to paragraph (2), the Administrator shall make the data available to the public and make a determination whether such data support a revision to the secondary treatment standard for pathogens (or pathogen indicators) pursuant to section 304(d)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The Administrator may not propose or finalize any modifications to requirements pursuant to section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act related to wastewater blending, bypass, or peak wet weather discharges from publicly owned treatment works until after the date on which the Administrator makes a determination under paragraph (3). In this section: The term bypass has the meaning given that term in section 122.41(m) of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations. The term treatment works has the meaning given that term in section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.