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HR 1955 114th Congress House Environmental Protection Aquatic ecology Environmental technology Great Lakes Lakes and rivers Water quality

Great Lakes Nutrient Removal Assistance Act

Introduced: April 22, 2015 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Apr 23, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Apr 22, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Apr 22, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Great Lakes Nutrient Removal Assistance Act

This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a program to provide grants to states in the Great Lakes System (i.e., Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and municipalities in those states to install nutrient removal technologies at a municipal wastewater treatment facility that has a permitted design capacity to treat an annual average of at least 500,000 gallons of wastewater per day.

The EPA must give priority to facilities at which nutrient removal technology installations would: (1) produce the greatest nutrient load reductions at points of discharge, (2) result in the greatest environmental benefits to the Great Lakes System, and (3) help meet the objectives related to nutrients outlined in Annex 4 of the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

What's happening now April 23, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3