Clean Water Issues in the 107th Congress: An Overview

Copeland, Claudia

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Water pollution;    Environmental law enforcement;    Water quality;    Environmental protection;    Water resources;   

RP-ID  :  RS20770
RP-ID  :  RS20770 2001-01-05

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Key water quality issues that may face the 107th Congress include: actions to implement existing provisions of the Clean Water Act, whether additional steps are necessary to achieve overall goals of the Act, and the appropriate federal role in guiding and paying for clean water activities. This Act is the principal law that deals with polluting activity in the nation’s lakes, rivers, and coastal waters and authorizes funds to aid construction of municipal wastewater treatment plants. Legislative prospects for comprehensively amending it have been stalled over whether and exactly how to change the law.