A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of funds made available for nonpoint source management programs for projects and activities relating to the development and implementation of phase II of the storm water program of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit States to use funds from grants for nonpoint source management programs for projects or activities relating to phase II storm water program implementation, including management programs.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1716 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1716

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use 
  of funds made available for nonpoint source management programs for 
projects and activities relating to the development and implementation 
of phase II of the storm water program of the Environmental Protection 
                                Agency.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 3, 2003

  Mr. Chafee (for himself, Mr. Bond, and Mr. Jeffords) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use 
  of funds made available for nonpoint source management programs for 
projects and activities relating to the development and implementation 
of phase II of the storm water program of the Environmental Protection 
                                Agency.

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

SECTION 1. PHASE II STORM WATER PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT.

    Section 319(h) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1329(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13) Phase ii storm water implementation.--A State may 
        use funds from a grant provided under this subsection--
                    ``(A) to carry out a project or activity relating 
                to the development or implementation of phase II of the 
                storm water program of the Environmental Protection 
                Agency established by the final rule entitled `National 
                Pollutant Discharge Elimination System--Regulations for 
                Revision of the Water Pollution Control Program 
                Addressing Storm Water Discharges'', promulgated by the 
                Administrator on December 8, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 68722); 
                and
                    ``(B) to implement a management program in a 
                geographic jurisdiction for phase II of the program 
                described in subparagraph (A).''.
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