Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§1313a Revised water quality standards
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 26— - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT › § 1313a
Summary
States must finish the section 303(c) water-quality review by December 29, 1984. After that date, Title II grants stop unless a state in good faith submitted revisions and the EPA hasn't acted within 120 days of receipt.
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Title 33, §1313a
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The review, revision, and adoption or promulgation of revised or new water quality standards pursuant to section 303(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [33 U.S.C. 1313(c)] shall be completed by the date three years after December 29, 1981. No grant shall be made under title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [33 U.S.C. 1281 et seq.] after such date until water quality standards are reviewed and revised pursuant to section 303(c), except where the State has in good faith submitted such revised water quality standards and the Administrator has not acted to approve or disapprove such submission within one hundred and twenty days of receipt.
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References in Text
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, as amended generally by Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816. Title II of the Act is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 1281 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 1251 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Municipal Wastewater Treatment
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Amendments
of 1981, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 1313a
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73