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H.R. 2452: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

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H.R. 2452: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

110th Congress · introduced 2007-05-23 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2007-05-23 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Plain summary

Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works to: (1) institute monitoring systems to provide timely alerts of sewer overflows; (2) notify the public, not later than 24 hours after receiving knowledge, of such overflows in areas where human health is potentially affected; (3) notify public health authorities and other affected entities, in the case of an overflow that may imminently and substantially endanger human health, immediately after the owner or operator knows of the overflow; (4) report each overflow on discharge monitoring reports to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the state; and (5) annually report to the Administrator or the state on the total number of overflows in a calendar year. Makes specified exceptions to notification and reporting requirements for backups into single-family residences and for overflows that occur in the course of treatment works maintenance, respectively. Requires annual summary reports by states to the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to issue regulations, including to establish overflow assessment guidance and develop communications measures to provide notification under this Act. Provides procedures for review and approval, after issuance of such regulations, of state notification programs. Makes the monitoring systems eligible for state water pollution control revolving fund assistance.

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Official text

Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House amended)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1] · 57 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2452, A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of sewage, and for other purposes (2008-06-11); CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2452, A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of sewage, and for other purposes (2008-06-11)

Cosponsors on this site

Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Christopher Murphy (D-CT)

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Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-hr2452 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110