PUBLIC LAW 97-117—DEC. 29, 1981
95 STAT. 1633
istrator has not acted to approve or disapprove such submission within one hundred and twenty days of receipt. NEEDS SURVEY
SEC. 25. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall submit to the Congress, not later than December 31, 1982, a roport containing the detailed estimates, comprehensive study, and comprehensive analysis required by section 516(b) of the Fedei^ Water Pollution Control Act, including an estimate of the total cost and the amount of Federal funds necessary for the construction of needed publicly owned treatment facilities. Such report shall be prepared in the same manner as is required by such section and shallreflectthe changes made in the Federal water pollution control program by this Act and the amendments made by this Act. In preparing thisreport,the Administrator shall give emphasis to the effects of the amendment made by section 2(a) of this Act in addressing water quality needs adequately and appropriately.
Report to QoScfisTs ^^ ^^ 33 USC 1375.
JUDICIAL NOnCE
SEC. 26. It is the sense of Congress that judicial notice should be taken of this Act and of the amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act made by this Act, including reduced authorization levels under section 207 of such Act, and that the parties to ^^te, p. 1630. Federal consent decrees establishing a deadline, schedule, or timetable for the construction of publiay owned treatment works are encouraged to reexamine the provisions of such consent decrees and, where required by equity, to make appropriate adjustments in such provisions. BATH TOWNSHIP
SEC. 27. For purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the project for publicly owned treatment works for Bath Township, Michigan, shall be eligible for payments from sums allocated to the State of Michigan under such Act in an amount equal to the amount such works would be eligible for under section 202 of such Act if such 33 USC i282. works were to be constructed after the date of enactment of this Act, at the original construction cost. Approved December 29, 1981.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4503 (S. 1716): HOUSE REPORTS: No. 97-270 (Comm. on Public Works and Transportation) and No. 97-408 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORT No. 97-204 accompanying S. 1716 (Comm. on Environment and Public Works). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 127 (1981): Oct. 27, considered and passed House; S. 1716 considered and passed Senate. Oct. 29, considered and passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 1716. Dec. 16, House and Senate agreed to conference report. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 17, No. 53 (1981): Dec. 29, Presidential statement.
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