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S. 2080: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

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S. 2080: Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

110th Congress · introduced 2007-09-20 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1075.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2007-09-20 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1075. 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 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.

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Official text

Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate with amendment(s))

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] · 4 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 2080, Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act (2008-09-23); CBO cost estimate: S. 2080, Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act (2008-09-23)

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Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-s2080 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110