Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102

§1313a Revised Water Quality Standards

Title 33 › CHAPTER 26 — WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › SUBCHAPTER III — STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT › § 1313a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

States must update water quality standards under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act by December 29, 1984. No federal grants after that date until the updates are done, unless the State sent revisions in good faith and the Administrator failed to act within 120 days.

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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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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

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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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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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102