Sewage Overflow Right-to-Know Act
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Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require owners or operators of publicly owned sewage treatment works to: (1) institute a monitoring program that alerts such owners or operators of sewer overflows; (2) notify the public of such overflows within 24 hours in areas where human health is potentially affected; (3) immediately notify public health authorities and other affected entities in the case of overflows that may imminently and substantially endanger public health; and (4) make specified reports on overflows, including the number of overflows in a calendar year, to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state.
Requires each state to provide the Administrator an annual summary of sewer overflows.
Authorizes a state to submit evidence to the Administrator that it has in place a legally enforceable sewage overflow notification program that is substantially equivalent to the notification requirements of this Act. Sets forth factors for determining substantial equivalency.
Authorizes funding from state water pollution control revolving funds to carry out the monitoring of sewer overflows.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1075.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- Reported to Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2080: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2080/
"S. 2080: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2080/.
S. 2080, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-2080/.
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