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Calendar No. 1075
110TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session SENATE 110-497
SEWAGE OVERFLOW COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT
SEPTEMBER 24 (legislative day, SEPTEMBER 17), 2008.-Ordered to be printed
Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2080]
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[Including an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2080) to amend the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act to ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for
and report discharges of raw sewage, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
PURPOSE AND SUMMARY OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of S. 2080, the Sewage Overflow Community Right-
to-Know Act, is to provide a uniform, national standard for moni-
toring, reporting, and public notification of municipal combined
sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows. The bill would re-
quire publicly owned treatment works to with an issued, renewed,
or modified Clean Water Act permit to institute a methodology,
technology, or management program for monitoring sewer over-
flows to alert the operator of the treatment works of a sewer over-
flow in a timely manner.
S. 2080 would also require, with in the case of a sewer overflow
that has the potential to affect human health, that the owner or
operator of a treatment facility notify the public of the overflow as
soon as practicable, but not later than 24 hours after the time of
discovery of the overflow. If a sewer overflow may imminently and
substantially endanger human health, the owner or operator must
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