To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for consideration of the ability of an applicant for a stormwater permit to pay, and for other purposes.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or a State, in issuing permits for discharges from municipal storm sewers, to consider the ability of the applicant to pay to meet permit requirements and the environmental impact of the issuance of the permit at the site of the discharge.

[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 3380 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3380

    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for 
consideration of the ability of an applicant for a stormwater permit to 
                      pay, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 27, 1993

Mr. Bonilla (for himself, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Tejeda, Mr. Pete 
  Geren of Texas, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Lightfoot, Mr. Armey, Ms. Pryce of 
  Ohio, Mrs. Fowler, Mr. Emerson, Mr. DeLay, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. 
    McInnis, Mr. Buyer, Mr. Pombo, and Mr. Calvert) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Public Works and 
                             Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for 
consideration of the ability of an applicant for a stormwater permit to 
                      pay, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ABILITY TO PAY LIMITATION.

    Section 402(p) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1342 (p)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Consideration of ability of permittee to pay.--In 
        issuing a permit for discharges from municipal storm sewers 
        under this section and in determining the requirements, terms, 
        and conditions to be applicable under such a permit, the 
        Administrator or the State (in the case of a permit program 
        approved under this section) shall consider the ability of the 
        applicant to pay to meet such requirements, terms, and 
        conditions and the environmental impact of issuance of such 
        permit at the site of the discharge.''.

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