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The Clean Water Act
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The Clean Water Act
The provisions, effectiveness and implementation of the 1965 Act and subsequent amendments.
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"Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, commonly known as the Clean Water Act (CWA), which is contained in Chapter 33, Sections 1251 to 1299 of the Act. It grew from the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, in which Congress authorized the federal government to give state and local governments money to solve water pollution problems (Richman, 1999, p. 1). The act included a grant program to provide money to help local governments design and plan wastewater problems, but the money was never appropriated. Over the next two decades, Congress passed two Federal Water Pollution Control Acts (FWPCA), in 1956 and in 1961, and the Water Quality Act in 1965 (Richman, 1999, p. 2). The 1956 act created the Construction Grants Program, administered by the Public Health Service, to give money to local governments for up to 30 percent..."More papers on The Clean Water Act:
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