...and direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. This Act: 1. Reaffirmed the policy of Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the...States In preventing and controlling water pollution; 2. Authorized continued Federal -State cooperation In the development of comprehensive programs for...

...standard-setting. pollution control, and pollution abatement : "[I]t is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to recognize, preserve. and protect the...States in preventing and controlling water pollution . . ." Federal Water Pollution Cuutrol Act 8 Kb). "Consistent with the policy declaration of this Act,...

...The express policy of Congress in enacting and amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act was "to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities...States in preventing and controlling water pollution," and under the Act it is the initial right and responsibility of each 'State to adopt, after public...

...1956 Act and the 1961 amendments, the Water Quality Act of 1965 declares the policy of Congress to be "...to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary...States In preventing and controlling water pollution, to support and aid technical research relating to the prevention and control of water pollution, and...

...Wash. "The present Federal Water Pollution Control Act declares it tobe the policy of Congress 4x> recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities...States in preventing and controlling water pollution.' (33 USCA sec. 466). This Federal law also provides standards which are initially established by the...

...Subsection (h) of Section 1. Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, is "to recognize, proserve and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of the states in preventing nnd controlling water pollution . . ." We conscientiously question the comparability of the Secretary...

...the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, particularly " * * * it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the...States in preventing and controlling water pollution, * * *." We recommend that Section 12 (a) (2) of S. 544 be amended to read as follows : "(2) 'matter'...

...B œ M ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES The Federal Water Pollution Control Act declares it to be the policy of Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the...States in preventing and controlling water pollution. Consistent with that policy declaration, the act provides that State and interstate action to abate...

...that act has been amended in 1956, 1965 and 1966. The declared policy of Congress under the act is to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities...States in preventing and controlling water pollution. The act specifically provides that it shall not be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting...

...policy for the prevention, control, and abatement of water pollution. While recognizing and preserving the primary responsibilities and rights of the States in preventing and controlling water pollution, the Act gives the Federal Government, through the Department of the Interior, significant powers ranging...