Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act
Latest action · Sep 24, 2008 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1075.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedSep 20, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 15, 2007 to Jul 22, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-MD | Benjamin L. Cardin | Oct 30, 2007 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | Dec 12, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Jul 22, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Environment and Public Works Committee | Referred Sep 20, 2007Markup Sep 17, 2008Reported Sep 24, 2008 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2008Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-497. Minority views filed.
- Sep 24, 2008Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1075.
- Sep 17, 2008Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Sep 20, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Sep 20, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11859-11860)
- Sep 20, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S11859 | Frank R. Lautenberg D-NJ | Sep 20, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Sep 23, 2008S. 2080, Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on September 17, 2008</p>
- Sep 23, 2008S. 2080, Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know ActCost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on September 17, 2008
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2452 | Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act | Related bill | Aug 1, 2008 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill 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.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Sewage Overflow Right-to-Know Act
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Drainage
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency communication systems
- Emergency Management
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Health
- Pollution measurement
- Revolving funds
- Sewage disposal
- Sewerage
- Waste water
- Water pollution control
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 24, 2008Reported to Senate
- Sep 20, 2007Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
