PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Administrator may allow a controlled release of specific pollutants from an approved aquaculture project, but only after public hearings and under section 1342. The Administrator must make rules that set procedures and require the same criteria and requirements used for permits under section 1342, as needed to meet the chapter’s goals. A State may run its own permit program for these discharges if it sends in the program and the Administrator finds it adequate to meet the chapter’s goals.

Title 33, §1328

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(a)Authority to permit discharge of specific pollutants

The Administrator is authorized, after public hearings, to permit the discharge of a specific pollutant or pollutants under controlled conditions associated with an approved aquaculture project under Federal or State supervision pursuant to section 1342 of this title.

(b)Procedures and guidelines

The Administrator shall by regulation establish any procedures and guidelines which the Administrator deems necessary to carry out this section. Such regulations shall require the application to such discharge of each criterion, factor, procedure, and requirement applicable to a permit issued under section 1342 of this title, as the Administrator determines necessary to carry out the objective of this chapter.

(c)State administration

Each State desiring to administer its own permit program within its jurisdiction for discharge of a specific pollutant or pollutants under controlled conditions associated with an approved aquaculture project may do so if upon submission of such program the Administrator determines such program is adequate to carry out the objective of this chapter.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1977—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–217 inserted “pursuant to section 1342 of this title” after “Federal or State supervision”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–217 struck out “, not later than January 1, 1974,” after “The Administrator shall by regulation” in existing provisions and inserted provisions that the

Regulations

require the application to the discharge of each criterion, factor, procedure, and requirement applicable to a permit issued under section 1342 of this title, as the Administrator determines necessary to carry out the objectives of this chapter. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95–217 added subsec. (c).

§1328 Aquaculture