HR 4108 · 98th Congress · Environmental Protection
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the enhanced water quality of the Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays, and for other purposes.
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EnactedLatest: See H.R.3282.(1984-06-26)
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Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to add provisions relating to Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue the Chesapeake Bay program and to establish and maintain in the EPA an Office, Division, or Branch of Chesapeake Bay Programs to: (1) collect and disseminate research and other information on the environmental quality of the Bay; (2) coordinate all Federal research projects pertaining to the Bay; (3) conduct research on sediment deposition in the Bay; and (4) conduct research on natural and man-induced environmental changes' impact on the living resources of the Bay, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loadings of nutrients, chlorine, acid precipitation, dissolved oxygen, and toxic pollutants, including organic chemicals and heavy metals, and with special attention to the impact on the striped bass. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of a State affected by the interstate management plan developed under the Chesapeake Bay program, to make a grant to implement management mechanisms in the plan if the State has, within o…
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