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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2952
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for a Great
Lakes pollution prevention demonstration program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 6, 1993
Mr. KAPTUR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to pro-
vide for a Great Lakes pollution prevention demonstra-
tion program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GREAT LAKES POLLUTION PREVENTION.
Section 118 of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1268) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and
(h) as subsections (g), (h), and (i) respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(f) POLLUTION
PREVENTION
DEMONSTRATION
PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator, in
coordination with the Director of the National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technology and appropriate
officials of the Great Lakes States, shall establish a
multimedia Great Lakes pollution prevention dem-
onstration program to increase the use of moderniz-
ing industrial source reduction practices (as defined
in section 6603(5) of the Pollution Prevention Act of
1990 (42 U.S.C. 13102(5)) through demonstrations
in the Great Lakes region.
‘‘(2) REGISTRY OF TECHNOLOGIES.—The Ad-
ministrator, in consultation with the appropriate of-
ficials of State technical assistance offices and the
Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, shall maintain a registry of modernizing
toxic use and waste reduction technologies requiring
demonstration.
‘‘(3) PARTICIPATION.—Any person with a per-
mit to discharge into waters of the Great Lakes sys-
tem under section 402 may participate in the dem-
onstration program through—
‘‘(A) the institution of a source reduction
practice from the registry developed under
paragraph (2); or
‘‘(B) the institution of any other innovative
source reduction practice that the Adminis-
trator determines—
‘‘(i) has the potential to significantly
reduce pollutant discharges to water and
other environmental media without signifi-
cantly increasing pollutant discharges to
any environmental medium; and
‘‘(ii) should be demonstrated.
‘‘(4) REQUIREMENTS.—Any participant in the
demonstration program—
‘‘(A) shall be exempt from the requirement
under section 308 to pay a fee for the develop-
ment of revised effluent guidelines; and
‘‘(B) may be granted an additional year to
comply with any new or revised effluent stand-
ards issued under this Act if, in the judgment
of the Administrator, the extension is necessary
and appropriate.
‘‘(5) 
POLLUTION
PREVENTION
EXTENSION
SERVICE.—The Administrator, in cooperation with
the Director of the National Institute of Standards
and Technology and appropriate officials of State
technical assistance offices, shall establish a pollu-
tion prevention extension service to provide an active
outreach effort to advise, inform, and encourage pol-
lution prevention by industrial discharges to the
Great Lakes System.
‘‘(6) 
POLLUTION
PREVENTION
CLEARING-
HOUSE.—
‘‘(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Adminis-
trator shall establish a Great Lakes pollution
prevention clearinghouse.
‘‘(B) USE.—The clearinghouse shall utilize
the results of—
‘‘(i) research from the Environmental
Protection Agency Risk Reduction Engi-
neering Laboratory; and
‘‘(ii) demonstrations conducted pursu-
ant to this subsection;
to provide information to municipal and indus-
trial dischargers and sources of nonpoint pollu-
tion within the Great Lakes region on source
reduction methods, measures, techniques, and
technologies.
‘‘(C) COOPERATION
WITH
CANADA.—The
Administrator shall, to the maximum extent
practicable, cooperate with appropriate officials
of the Government of Canada with respect to
the collection and dissemination of information
pursuant to this section.
‘‘(7) POLLUTION PREVENTION FOR CITIES PRO-
GRAM.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION
FOR
TECHNICAL
AS-
SISTANCE.— A municipality located within the
Great Lakes basin boundaries may apply for
technical and financial assistance from the Ad-
ministrator to implement source reduction of
toxic pollutants in urban runoff, wastewater,
and stormwater.
‘‘(B) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible for as-
sistance under this paragraph, a municipality
shall apply to the Administrator with a state-
ment—
‘‘(i) stating pollutant reduction goals;
and
‘‘(ii) documenting stakeholder interest
in implementing voluntary pollutant reduc-
tion measures.
‘‘(C) 
ASSISTANCE.—The 
Administrator
shall, for each municipality with an approved
application statement—