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Title 33, Chapter 26. Water Pollution Prevention and Control

The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.[1] Commonly abbreviated as the CWA, the act established the goals of eliminating releases to water of high amounts of toxic substances, eliminating additional water pollution by 1985, and ensuring that surface waters would meet standards necessary for human sports and recreation by 1983.

The principal body of law currently in effect is based on the Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972, which significantly expanded and strengthened earlier legislation.[2] Major amendments were enacted in the Clean Water Act of 1977[3] and the Water Quality Act of 1987.[4]

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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control
Sec. SUBCHAPTER I—RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
§ 1251 Congressional declaration of goals and policy
§ 1252 Comprehensive programs for water pollution control
§ 1252a Reservoir projects, water storage; modification; storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality benefits in relation to total project benefits
§ 1253 Interstate cooperation and uniform laws
§ 1254 Research, investigations, training, and information
§ 1254a Research on effects of pollutants
§ 1255 Grants for research and development
§ 1256 Grants for pollution control programs
§ 1257 Mine water pollution control demonstrations
§ 1257a State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations
§ 1258 Pollution control in the Great Lakes
§ 1259 Training grants and contracts
§ 1260 Applications; allocation
§ 1261 Scholarships
§ 1262 Definitions and authorizations
§ 1263 Alaska village demonstration projects
§ 1263a Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages
§ 1264 Omitted
§ 1265 In-place toxic pollutants
§ 1266 Hudson River reclamation demonstration project
§ 1267 Chesapeake Bay
§ 1268 Great Lakes
§ 1269 Long Island Sound
§ 1270 Lake Champlain Basin Program
§ 1271 Sediment survey and monitoring
§ 1271a Research and development program
§ 1272 Environmental dredging
§ 1273 Lake Pontchartrain Basin
§ 1274 Wet weather watershed pilot projects
SUBCHAPTER II—GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TREATMENT WORKS
§ 1281 Congressional declaration of purpose
§ 1281a Total treatment system funding
§ 1281b Availability of Farmers Home Administration funds for non-Federal share
§ 1282 Federal share
§ 1283 Plans, specifications, estimates, and payments
§ 1284 Limitations and conditions
§ 1285 Allotment of grant funds
§ 1286 Reimbursement and advanced construction
§ 1287 Authorization of appropriations
§ 1288 Areawide waste treatment management
§ 1289 Basin planning
§ 1290 Annual survey
§ 1291 Sewage collection systems
§ 1292 Definitions
§ 1293 Loan guarantees
§ 1293a Contained spoil disposal facilities
§ 1294 Public information and education on recycling and reuse of wastewater, use of land treatment, and reduction of wastewater volume
§ 1295 Requirements for American materials
§ 1296 Determination of priority of projects
§ 1297 Guidelines for cost-effectiveness analysis
§ 1298 Cost effectiveness
§ 1299 State certification of projects
§ 1300 Pilot program for alternative water source projects
§ 1301 Sewer overflow control grants
SUBCHAPTER III—STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT
§ 1311 Effluent limitations
§ 1312 Water quality related effluent limitations
§ 1313 Water quality standards and implementation plans
§ 1313a Revised water quality standards
§ 1314 Information and guidelines
§ 1315 State reports on water quality
§ 1316 National standards of performance
§ 1317 Toxic and pretreatment effluent standards
§ 1318 Records and reports; inspections
§ 1319 Enforcement
§ 1320 International pollution abatement
§ 1321 Oil and hazardous substance liability
§ 1322 Marine sanitation devices
§ 1323 Federal facilities pollution control
§ 1324 Clean lakes
§ 1325 National Study Commission
§ 1326 Thermal discharges
§ 1327 Omitted
§ 1328 Aquaculture
§ 1329 Nonpoint source management programs
§ 1330 National estuary program
SUBCHAPTER IV—PERMITS AND LICENSES
§ 1341 Certification
§ 1342 National pollutant discharge elimination system
§ 1343 Ocean discharge criteria
§ 1344 Permits for dredged or fill material
§ 1345 Disposal or use of sewage sludge
§ 1346 Coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification
SUBCHAPTER V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1361 Administration
§ 1362 Definitions
§ 1363 Water Pollution Control Advisory Board
§ 1364 Emergency powers
§ 1365 Citizen suits
§ 1366 Appearance
§ 1367 Employee protection
§ 1368 Federal procurement
§ 1369 Administrative procedure and judicial review
§ 1370 State authority
§ 1371 Authority under other laws and regulations
§ 1372 Labor standards
§ 1373 Public health agency coordination
§ 1374 Effluent Standards and Water Quality Information Advisory Committee
§ 1375 Reports to Congress; detailed estimates and comprehensive study on costs; State estimates
§ 1375a Report on coastal recreation waters
§ 1376 Authorization of appropriations
§ 1377 Indian tribes
SUBCHAPTER VI—STATE WATER POLLUTION CONTROL REVOLVING FUNDS
§ 1381 Grants to States for establishment of revolving funds
§ 1382 Capitalization grant agreements
§ 1383 Water pollution control revolving loan funds
§ 1384 Allotment of funds
§ 1385 Corrective action
§ 1386 Audits, reports, and fiscal controls; intended use plan
§ 1387 Authorization of appropriations

Footnotes

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  1. 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.
  2. Pub.L. 92-500, October 18, 1972.
  3. Pub.L. 95-217, December 27, 1977.
  4. Pub.L. 100-4, February 4, 1987.

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