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Federal Water Pollution Legislation
Water pollution legislation at the federal level dates
back to the Refuse Act of 1899 and twelve additional acts
shown in Appendix D have since been enacted.20 The most
recent and most significant of these acts is the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.21 Those portions
of this act which directly affect businesses will be dis-
cussed in detail.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of
1972.--This act, Public Law 92-500, mandates a widespread
federal-state campaign to prevent, reduce, and eliminate
water pollution. The two primary goals of the act are:
1. To achieve wherever possible by July 1, 1983, water
that is clean enough for swimming and other recre-
ation uses, and clean enough for the protection of
and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife.
2. And by 1985 to have no discharge of pollutants into
the Nation's waters.22
This law builds upon and improves earlier federal water
pollution control legislation (see Appendix D) and initiates
two principal changes:
1. The law extends the federal pollution control program
to all United States waters--interstate and intra-
state.
20Hodges, p. 319.
21Public Law 92-500, 86 Stat. 816 (1972).
22 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Federal
Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972--Highlights
(January, 1973), p. 1.
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Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd. The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis, dissertation, May 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332517/m1/36/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .