An Act to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, to provide grants for research and development, to increase grants for construction of sewage treatment works, to require establishment of water quality criteria, and for other purposes.
PL 89-234 (S.4), enacted 10/02/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-234-OCT. 2, 1965 
903 
Public Law 89-234 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a Federal 
Water Pollution Control Administration, to provide grants for research and 
development, to increase grants for construction of sewage treatment works, 
to require establishment of water quality criteria, and for other purposes. 
October 2, 1965 
[S. 4] 
Water Quality 
Act of 1965. 
70 Stat. 498. 
Administration. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) (1) section 
1 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 466) is 
amended by inserting after the words "SECTION 1." a new subsection 
(a) as follows: 
"(a) The purpose of this Act is to enhance the quality and value of 
our water resources and to establish a national policy for the preven-
tion, control, and abatement of water pollution." 
(2) Such section is further amended by redesignating subsections 
(a) and (b) thereof as (b) and (c), respectively. 
(3) Subsection (b) of such section (as redesignated by paragraph 
(2) of this subsection) is amended by striking out the last sentence 
thereof and inserting in lieu of such sentence the following: "The 
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter in this Act 
called 'Secretary') shall administer this Act through the Administra-
tion created by section 2 of this Act, and with the assistance of an 
Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare designated 
by him, shall supervise and direct (1) the head of such Administra-
tion in administering this Act and (2) the administration of all other 
functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 
related to water pollution. 
Such Assistant Secretary shall perform 
such additional functions as the Secretary may prescribe." 
(b) There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, and 
Welfare, in addition to the Assistant Secretaries now provided for 
by law, one additional Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and ^g^."""' ^
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Welfare w'ho shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate. 
The provisions of section 2 of Reor-
ganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1953 (67 Stat. 631) shall be applicable 
to such additional Assistant Secretary to the same extent as they are 
applicable to the Assistant Secretaries authorized by that section. 
Paragraph (17) of section 303(d) of the Federal Executive Salary 
Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 418) is amended by striking out " (5)" before the 
period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "(6)." 
SEC. 2. (a) Such Act is further amended by redesignating sections 
2 through 4, and references thereto, as sections 3 through 5, respec-
tively, se<;tions 5 through 14, as sections 7 through 16, respectively, by 
inserting after section 1 the following new section: 
Additional As-
istant Secretary 
of Health, Edu-
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Ante, p. 449. 
" F E D E R A L WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ADMINISTRATION 
"SEC. 2. Effective ninety days after the date of enactment of this 
section there is created within the Department of Health, Education, 
and Welfare a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration 
(hereinafter in this Act referred to as the 'Administration'). 
The 
head of the Administration shall be appointed, and his compensation 
fixed, by the Secretary. The head of the Administration may, in addi-
tion to regular staff of the Administration, which shall be initially 
provided from the personnel of the Department, obtain, from within 
the Department or otherwise as authorized by law, such i)rofessional, 
technical, and clerical assistance as may be necessary to discharge the 
Administration's functions and may for that purpose use funds avail-
able for carrying out such functions; and he may delegate any of his 
Establishment. 
Retirement 
credit. 
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functions to, or otherwise authorize their performance by, any officer 
or employee of, or assigned or detailed to, the Administration." 
ofTicTr^s^^"'"^ 
(^) Subject to such requirements as the Civil Service Commission 
may prescribe, any commissioned officer of the Public Health Service 
who, on the day before the effective date of the establishment of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, was, as such officer, 
performing functions relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control 
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-^^^ ^^y acquire competitive civil service status and be transferred to 
note. 
a classified position in the Administration if he sO transfers within six 
months (or such further period as the Secretary of Health, Education, 
and Welfare may find necessary in individual cases) after such effec-
tive date. No commissioned officer of the Public Health Service may 
be transferred to the Administration under this section if he does not 
consent to such transfer. 
As used in this section, the term "trans-
ferring officer" means an officer transferred in accordance with this 
subsection. 
(c) (1) The Secretary shall deposit in the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of the civil service retirement and disability fund, 
on behalf of and to the credit of each transferring officer, an amount 
equal to that which such individual would be required to deposit in 
such fund to cover the years of service credited to him for purposes of 
his retirement as a commissioned officer of the Public Health Service 
to the date of his transfer as provided in subsection (b), but only to 
the extent that such service is otherwise creditable under the Civil 
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Service Retirement Act. The amount so required to be deposited with 
note. 
respect to any transferring officer shall be computed on the basis of the 
sum of his basic pay, allowance for quarters, and allowance for sub-
sistence and, in the case of a medical officer, his special pay, during the 
years of service so creditable, including all such years after June 30, 
1960. 
(2) The deposits which the Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare is required to make under this subsection with respect to any 
transferring officer shall be made within two years after the date of his 
transfer as provided in subsection (b), and the amounts due under this 
subsection shall include interest computed from the period of service 
credited to the date of payment in accordance with section 4(e) of the 
Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2254 (e)). 
(d) All past service of a transferring officer as a commissioned 
officer of the Public Health Service shall be considered as civilian 
service for all purposes under the Civil Service Retirement Act, effec-
tive as of the date any such transferring officer acquires civil service 
status as an employee of the Federal Water Pollution Control Admin-
istration; however, no transferring officer may become entitled to 
benefits under both the Civil Service Retirement Act and title I I of 
Ante, pp. 290, 
the Social Security Act based on service as such a commissioned officer 
performed after 1956, but the individual (or his survivors) may 
irrevocably elect to waive benefit credit for the service under one Act 
to secure credit under the other. 
(e) A transferring officer on whose behalf a deposit is required to 
be made by subsection (c) and who, after transfer to a classified posi-
tion in the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration under 
subsection (b), is separated from Federal service or transfers to a 
position not covered by the Civil Service Retirement Act, shall not be 
entitled, nor shall his survivors be entitled, to a refund of any amount 
deposited on his behalf in accordance with this section. 
In the event 
he transfers, after transfer under subsection (b), to a position covered 
by another Government staff retirement system under which credit is 
allowable for service with respect to which a deposit is required under 
subsection (c), no credit shall be allowed under the Civil Service 
Retirement Act with respect to such service. 
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(f) Each transferring officer who prior to January 1, 1957, was insurance 
insured pursuant to the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance x^ct ''°''^'"^^^-
of 1954, and who subsequently waived such insurance, shall be entitled 
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to become insured under such Act upon his transfer to the Federal note. 
Water Pollution Control Administration regardless of age and 
insurability. 
(g) Any commissioned officer of the Public Health Service who, 
Compensation. 
pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, is transferred to a position 
in the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration which is sub-
ject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, shall receive a salary 
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rate of the General Schedule grade of such position which is nearest to note. 
but not less than the sum of (1) basic pay, quarters and subsistence 
allowances, and, in the case of a medical officer, special pay, to which 
he was entitled as a commissioned officer of the Public Health Service 
on the day immediately preceding his transfer, and (2) an amount 
equal to the equalization factor (as defined in this subsection) ; but in 
no event shall the rate so established exceed the maximum rate of such 
grade. As used in this section, the term "equalization factor" means 
"Equalization 
an amount determined by the Secretary to be equal to the sum of 
(A) 61-^ per centum of such basic pay and (B) the amount of Federal 
income tax which the transferring officer, had he remained a commis-
sioned officer, would have been required to pay on such allowances for 
quarters and subsistence for the taxable year then current if they had 
not been tax free. 
(h) A transferring officer who has had one or more years of com- 
^^""^ leave. 
missioned service in the Public Health Service immediately prior to 
his transfer under subsection (b) shall, on the date of such transfer, 
be credited with thirteen days of sick leave. 
(i) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any commis- 
special retire. 
sioned officer of the United States Public Health Service with twenty- ™
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five or more years of service who has held the temporary rank of Assist-
ant Surgeon General in the Division of Water Supply and Pollution 
Control of the United States Public Health Service for three or more 
years and whose position and duties are affected by this Act, may, 
with the approval of the President, voluntarily retire from the United 
States Public Health Service with the same retirement benefits that 
would accrue to him if he had held the rank of Assist-ant Surgeon 
General for a period of four years or more if he so retires within 
ninety days of the date of the establishment of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Administration. 
(j) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to restrict 
or in any way limit the head of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Administration in matters of organization or in otherwise carry-
ing out his duties under section 2 of this Act as he deems appropriate 
to the discharge of the functions of such Administration. 
(k) The Surgeon General shall be consulted by the head of the 
Administration on the public health aspects relating to water pollu-
tion over which the head of such Administration has administrative 
responsibility. 
SEC. 3. Such Act is further amended by inserting after the section 
redesignated as section 5 a new section as follows: 
" G R A N T S FOR R E S E A R C H A N D DE^^5L0PMENT 
"SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to any combined 
State, municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the t^^n^c'^ntro". 
purpose of assisting in the deA'^elopment of any project which will 
demonstrate a new or improved method of controlling the discharge 
into any waters of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other 
waste from sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and 
sewer 
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Grant limita-
tions. 
Appropriation. 
Treatment plant 
construction 
grants. 
70 Stat. 502; 
75 Stat. 206. 
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sewage or other wastes, and for the purpose of reports, plans, and 
specifications in connection therewith. 
The Secretary is authorized 
to provide for the conduct of research and demonstrations relating to 
new or improved methods of controlling the discharge into any waters 
of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other waste from 
sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and sewage or 
other wastes, by contract with public or private agencies and institu-
tions and with individuals without regard to sections 3648 and 3709 
of the Revised Statutes, except that not to exceed 25 per centum of 
the total amount appropriated under authority of this section for any 
fiscal year may be expended under authority of this sentence during 
such fiscal year. 
" (b) Federal grants under this section shall be subject to the follow-
ing limitations: (1) No grant shall be made for any project pursuant 
to this section unless such project shall have been approved by an 
appropriate State water pollution control agency or agencies and by 
the Secretary; (2) no grant shall be made for any project in an amount 
exceeding 50 per centum of the estimated reasonable cost thereof as 
determined by the Secretary; (3) no grant shall be made for any 
project under this section unless the Secretary determines that such 
project will serve as a useful demonstration of a new or improved 
method of controlling the discharge into any water of untreated or 
inadequately treated sewage or other waste from sewers which carry 
storm water or both storm water and sewage or other wastes. 
"(c) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1966, and for each of the next three succeeding 
fiscal years, the sum of $20,000,000 per fiscal year for the purposes of 
this section. 
Sums so appropriated shall remain available until 
expended. 
No grant or contract shall be made for any project in an 
amount exceeding 5 per centum of the total amount authorized by this 
section in any one fiscal year." 
SEC. 4. (a) Clause (2) of subsection (b) of the section of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as section 
8 is amended by striking out "$600,000," and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$1,200,000,". 
(b) The second proviso in clause (2) of subsection (b) of such 
redesignated section 8 is amended by striking out "$2,400,000," and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$4,800,000,". 
(c) Subsection (b) of such redesignated section 8 is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following: "The limitations of $1,200,000 
and $4,800,000 imposed by clause (2) of this subsection shall not apply 
in the case of grants made under this section from funds allocated 
under the third sentence of subsection (c) of this section if the State 
agrees to match equally all Federal grants made from such allocation 
for projects in such State." 
(d) (1) The second sentence of subsection (c) of such redesignated 
section 8 is amended by striking out "for any fiscal year" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "for each fiscal year ending on or before June 30,1965, 
and the first $100,000,000 appropriated pursuant to subsection (d) 
for each fiscal year beginning on or after July 1,1965,". 
(2) Subsection (c) of such redesignated section 8 is amended by 
inserting immediately after the period at the end of the second sen-
tence thereof the following: "All sums in excess of $100,000,000 appro-
priated pursuant to subsection (d) for each fiscal year beginning on 
or after July 1, 1965, shall be allotted by the Secretary from time to 
time, in accordance with regulations, in the ratio that the population 
of each State bears to the population of all States." 
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(3) The third sentence of subsection (c) of such redesignated section 
8 is amended by striking out "the preceding sentence" and inserting 
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in lieu thereof "the two preceding sentences". 
(4) The next to the last sentence of subsection (c) of such redesig-
nated section 8 is amended by striking out "and third" and inserting 
in lieu thereof ", third, and fourth". 
(e) The last sentence of subsection (d) of such redesignated section 
8 is amended to read as follows: "Sums so appropriated shall remain 
available until expended. At least 50 per centum of the funds so appro-
priated for each fiscal year ending on or before June 30, 1965, and 
at least 50 per centum of the first $100,000,000 so appropriated for each 
fiscal year beginning on or after July 1,1965, shall be used for grants 
for the construction of treatment works servicing municipalities of one 
hundred and twenty-five thousand population or under." 
(f) Subsection (d) of such redesignated section 8 is amended by 
striking out "$100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, 
and $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30,1967." and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "$150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1966, and $150,000,000 for the fiscal jear ending June 30, 1967." 
(g) Subsection (f) of such redesignated section 8 is redesignated 
as subsection (g) thereof and is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new sentence: "The Secretary of Labor shall have, with 
respect to the labor standards specified in this subsection, the author-
ity and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 
1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 64 Stat. 1267; 5 U.S.G. 133z—15) and section 2 
of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 948; 40 U.S.C. 
276c)." 
(h) Such redesignated section 8 is further amended by inserting 
therein, immediately after subsection (e) thereof, the following new 
subsection: 
"(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the Sec- fjj'^^^^^^'l^n^"^^ 
retary may increase the amount of a grant made under subsection (b) n°ng. 
of this section by an additional 10 per centum of the amount of such 
grant for any j)roject which has been certified to him by an official 
State, metropolitan, or regional planning agency empowered under 
State or local laws or interstate compact to perform metropolitan or 
regional planning for a metropolitan area within which the assistance 
is to be used, or other agency or instrumentality designated for such 
jjurposes by the Governor (or Governors in the case of interstate 
planning) as being in conformity with the comprehensive plan 
developed or in process of development for such metropolitan area. 
For the purposes of this subsection, the term 'metropolitan area' means 
"Metropolitan 
either (1) a standard metropolitan statistical area as defined by the ^'^^^' 
Bureau of the Budget, except as may be determined by the President 
as not being appropriate for the purposes hereof, or (2) any urban 
area, including those surrounding areas that form an economic and 
socially related region, taking into consideration such factors as 
present and future population trends and patterns of urban growth, 
location of transportation facilities and systems, and distribution of 
industrial, commercial, residential, governmental, institutional, and 
other activities, which in the opinion of the President lends itself as 
being appropriate for the purposes hereof." 
SEC. 5. (a) Redesignated section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act is amended by redesignating subsections (c) through (i) 75^stat.^*208^!^' 
as subsections (d) through (j), and by inserting after subsection (b) 
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the following new subsection: 
"(c) (1) If the Governor of a State or a State water pollution control 3 
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agency files, within one year after the date of enactment of this subsec-
tion, a letter of intent that such State, after public hearings, will before 
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June 30,1967, adopt (A) water quality criteria applicable to interstate 
waters or portions thereof within such State, and (B) a plan for the 
implementation and enforcement of the water quality criteria adopted, 
and if such criteria and plan are established in accordance with the 
letter of intent, and if the Secretary determines that such State criteria 
and plan are consistent with paragraph (3) of this subsection, such 
State criteria and plan shall thereafter be the water quality standards 
applicable to such mterstate waters or portions thereof. 
"(2) If a State does not (A) file a letter of intent or (B) establish 
water quality standards in accordance with paragraph (1) of this 
subsection, or if the Secretary or the Governor of any State affected 
by water quality standards established pursuant to this subsection 
desires a revision in such standards, the Secretary may, after reason-
able notice and a conference of representatives of appropriate Fed-
eral departments and agencies, interstate agencies. States, munici-
palities and industries involved, prepare regulations setting forth 
standards of water quality to be applicable to interstate waters or 
portions thereof. 
If, within six months from the date the Secretary 
publishes such regulations, the State has not adopted water quality 
standards found by the Secretary to be consistent with paragraph (3) 
of this subsection, or a petition for public hearing has not been filed 
under paragraph (4) of this subsection, the Secretary shall promulgate 
such standards. 
"(3) Standards of quality established pursuant to this subsection 
shall be such as to protect the public health or welfare, enhance the 
quality of water and serve the purposes of this Act. In establishing 
such standards the Secretary, the Hearing Board, or the appropriate 
State authority shall take into consideration their use and value for 
public water supplies, propagation of fish and wildlife, recreational 
purposes, and agricultural, industrial, and other legitimate uses. 
Hearings. 
t( ^^^ j£ ^^ ^^^ ^-j^^ pHor to 30 days after standards have been 
promulgated under paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Governor of 
any State affected by such standards petitions the Secretary for a hear-
ing, the Secretary shall call a public hearing, to be held in or near one 
or more of the places where the water quality standards will take 
effect, before a Hearing Board of five or more persons appointed by 
the Secretary. Each State which would be affected by such standards 
shall be given an opportunity to select one member of the Hearing 
Board. 
The Department of Commerce and other affected Federal 
departments and agencies shall each be given an opportunity to select 
a member of the Hearing Board and not less than a majority of the 
Hearing Board shall be persons other than officers or employees of the 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The members of the 
Board who are not officers or employees of the United States, while 
participating in the hearing conducted by such Hearing Board or 
otherwise engaged on the work of such Hearing Board, shall be entitled 
to receive compensation at a rate fixed by the Secretary, but not 
exceeding $100 per diem, including travel time, and while away from 
their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel 
expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by 
75^stat^*339°^34o 
^^^' (^ U.S.C. 73l>-2) for persous in the Government service employed 
Publication in ' intermittently. Notice of such hearing shall be published in the Fed-
Federai Register, ^j^j Registe/aud glveu to the State water pollution control agencies, 
interstate agencies and municipalities involved at least 30 days prior 
to the date of such hearing. On the basis of the evidence presented at 
such hearing, the Hearing Board shall make findings as to whether the 
standards published or promulgated by the Secretary should be 
approved or modified and transmit its findings to the Secretary. 
If 
the Hearing Board approves the standards as published or promul-
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gated by the Secretarjj the standards shall take effect on receipt by the 
Secretary of the Hearing Board's recommendations. If the Hearing 
Board recommends modifications in the standards as published or 
promulgated b;^ the Secretary, the Secretary shall promulgate revised 
regulations setting forth standards of water quality in accordance with 
the Hearing Board's recommendations which will become effective 
immediately upon promulgation. 
" (5) The discharge of matter into such interstate waters or portions .^^*^'" standards 
thereof, which reduces the quality of such waters below the water '''°^^*'°"^ 
quality standards established under this subsection (\\hether the mat-
ter causing or contributing to such reduction is discharged directly 
into such waters or reaches such waters after discharge into tributaries 
of such waters), is subject to abatement in accordance with the provi-
sions of paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (g) of this section, except 
that at least 180 days before any abatement action is initiated under 
either paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (g) as authorized by this 
subsection, the Secretary shall notify the violators and other inter-
ested parties of the violation of such standards. In any suit brought 
under the provisions of this subsection the court shall receive in evi-
dence a transcript of the proceedings of the conference and hearing 
provided for in this subsection, together with the recommendations of 
the conference and Hearing Board and the recommendations and 
standards promulgated by the Secretary, and such additional evidence, 
including that relating to the alleged violation of the standards, as it 
deems necessary to a complete review of the standards and to a 
determination of all other issues relating to the alleged violation. The 
court, giving due consideration to the practicability and to the physical 
and economic feasibility of complying with such standards, shall have 
jurisdiction to enter such judgment and orders enforcing such judg-
ment as the public interest and the equities of the case may require. 
"(6) Nothing in this subsection shall (A) prevent the application 
of this section to any case to which subsection (a) of this section would 
otherwise be applicable, or (B) extend Federal jurisdiction over water 
not otherwise authorized by this Act. 
"(7) In connection with any hearings under this section no witness 
or any other person shall be required to divulge trade secrets or secret 
processes." 
(b) Paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of the section of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as section 10 is ^^^g^^^^gQ^^' 
amended by striking out the final period after the third sentence of 
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such subsection and inserting the following in lieu thereof: "; or he 
finds that substantial economic injury results from the inability to 
market shellfish or shellfish products in interstate commerce because 
of pollution referred to in subsection (a) and action of Federal, State, 
or local authorities." 
SEC. 6. The section of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
hereinbefore redesignated as section 12 is amended by adding at the 
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end thereof the following new subsections: 
"(d) Each recipient of assistance under this Act shall keep such 
Records. 
records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully 
disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds 
of such assistance, the total cost of the project or undertaking in con-
nection with which such assistance is given or used, and the amount 
of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by 
other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective 
audit. 
" (e) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the ^^^^'^^ °^ ^°°^^' 
Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly author-
ized representatives, shall have access for the purpose of audit and 
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Short title. 
examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of the 
recipients that are pertinent to the grants received under this Act." 
SEO. 7. (a) Section 7 (f) (6) of the Federal Water Pollution Conti^ol 
Act, as that section is redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking 
out "section 6(b)(4)." as contained therein and inserting in lieu 
thereof "section 8(b) (4).". 
(b) Section 8 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as that 
section is redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking out "section 
5" as contained therein and inserting in lieu thereof "section 7". 
(c) Section 10(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
that section is redesi^ated by this Act, is amended by striking out 
"subsection (g)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (h)". 
(d) Section 10(i) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
that section is redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking out 
"subsection (e)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (f)". 
(e) Section 11 of the Federal Wat«r Pollution Control Act, as that 
section is redesignated by this Act, is amended by striking out "section 
8(c)(3)" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 10(d)(3)" and by 
striking out "section 8(e)" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 
10(f)". 
SEC. 8. This Act may be cited as the "Water Quality Act of 1965". 
Approved October 2, 1965. 
October 2, 1965 
[S. J. Res, 98] 
Public Law 89-235 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing and requesting the President to extend through 1966 his proclama-
tion of a period to "See the United States", and for other purposes. 
"See the United 
States," 1966. 
Proclamation. 
78 Stat. 388. 
Publicity. 
National chair-
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is author-
ized and requested (1) to extend through 1966 the period designated 
pursuant to the joint resolution approved August 11, 1964 (Public 
I^w 88^16), as a period to see the United States and its territories; 
(2) to encourage private industry and interested private organiza-
tions to continue their efforts to attract greater numbers of the Amer-
ican people to the scenic, historical, and recreational areas and facilities 
of the United States of America, its territories and possessions, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and (3) to issue a proclamation 
specially inviting citizens of other countries to visit the festivals, 
fairs, pageants, and other ceremonials to be celebrated in 1966 in the 
United States of America, its territories and possessions, and the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico. 
SEC. 2. The President is authorized to publicize any proclamations 
issued pursuant to the first section and otherwise to encourage and 
promote vacation travel within the United States of America, its 
territories and possessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
both by American citizens and by citizens of other countries, through 
such departments or agencies of the Federal Government as he deems 
appropriate, in cooperation with State and local agencies and private 
organizations. 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of the extension provided for by this joint 
resolution, the President is authorized during the period of such exten-
sion to exercise the authority conferred by section 3 of the joint resolu-
tion approved August 11, 1964 (Public Law 88-416), and for such 
purpose may extend for such period the appointment of any person 
serving as National Chairman pursuant to such section. 
Approved October 2, 1965.