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[80 STAT. 1250]
PUBLIC LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1966
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79 Stat. 903, 907. 33 USC 466e.

Enforcement provisions. 70 Stat. 504; 79 Stat. 9 0 3, 9 0 7. 33 USC 466g.

36 Stat. 2448.

62 Stat. 791.

PUBLIC LAW 89-753-NOV. 3, 1966

[80 STAT.

.strued to constitute a coniniitment or obligation of the United States to provide funds to make or pay any grant for such project." SEC. 205. Subsection (d) of section 8 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by striking out "and $150,000,000 for the fiscal year ending Jmie 30, 1967." and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "$150,(X)0,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; $450,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; $700,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969; $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970; and $1,250,(K)0,000 for the fiscal year ending June 3 0, 197L" SEC. 206. Set-tion 10(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4), respective'ly, and by inserting immediately after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: "(2) Whenever the Secretary, upon receipt of reports, surveys, or studies from any duly constituted international agency, has reason to believe that any pollution referred to in subsection (a) of this section which endangers the health or welfare of persons in a foreign country is occurring, and the Secretary of State requests him to abate such pollution, he shall give formal notification thereof to the State water pollution control agency of the State in which such discharge or discharges originate and to the interstate water pollution control agency, if any, and shall call promptly a conference of such agency or agencies, if he believes that such pollution is occurring in sufficient quantity to warrant such action. The Secretary, through the Secretary of State, shall invite the foreign country which may be advereely affected by the pollution to attend and participate in the conference, and the representative of such country shall, for the jmrpose of the conference and any further proceeding resulting from such conference, have all the rights of a State water pollution control agency. This paragraph shall apply only to a foreign country which the Secretary determines has given the United States essentially the same rights with respect to the prevention and control of water pollution occurring in that country as is given that country by this paragraph. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to modify, amend, repeal, or otherwise affect the provisions of the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty between Canada and the United States or the Water Utilization Treaty of 1944 between Mexico and the United States (59 Stat. 1219), relative to the control and abatement of water pollution in waters covered by those treaties." SEC. 207. Section l()(d)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (as redesignated by this Act) is amended by inserting after the first sentence thereof the following: "In addition, it shall be the responsibility of the chairman of the conference to give every person contributing to the alleged pollution or affected by it an opportunity to make a full statement of his views to the conference." SEC. 208. (a) Section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (k)(1) At the request of a majority of the conferees in any conference called under this section the Secretary is authorized to request any person whose alleged activities result in discharges causing or contributing to water pollution, to file with him a report (in such form as may be prescribed in regulations promulgated by him) based on existing data, furnishing such information as may reasonably be requested as to the character, kind, and quantity of such discharges and the use of facilities or other means to prevent or reduce such discharges by the person filing such a report. No person shall be required in such report to divulge trade secrets or secret processes, and all information reported shall be considered confidential for the purposes of section 1905 of title 18 of the United States Code.