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Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Introduced: July 16, 2012 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jul 16, 2012
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Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works to: (1) institute monitoring systems to provide timely alerts of sewer overflows, (2) notify the public not later than 24 hours after receiving knowledge of such overflows in areas where human health is potentially affected, (3) notify public health authorities and other affected entities immediately of an overflow that may imminently and substantially endanger human health, (4) report each overflow on discharge monitoring reports to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the state, and (5) annually report to the Administrator or the state on the total number of overflows in a calendar year.

Makes specified exceptions to notification and reporting requirements for backups into single-family residences and for overflows that occur in the course of treatment works maintenance, respectively.

Requires annual summary reports by states to the Administrator.

Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations, including to establish overflow assessment guidance and develop communications measures to provide notification under this Act.

Makes the monitoring systems eligible for state water pollution control revolving fund assistance.

What's happening now July 16, 2012

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3388: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-3388/
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"S. 3388: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-3388/.
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S. 3388, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-3388/.
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