80 STAT. ]
PUBLIC LAW 89-753-NOV. 3, 1966
1251
. "(2) If any person required to iile any report under this subsection shall fail to do so within the time fixed by regulations for tiling the same, and such failure shall continue for thirty days after notice of such default, such person may, by order of a majority of the conferees, be subject to a forfeiture of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where such person has his principal oiRce or in any district in which he does business. The Secretary may upon application therefor remit or mitigate any forfeiture provided for under this subsection and he shall have authority to determine the facts upon all such applications. "(3) I t shall be the duty of the various United States attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of such forfeitures." (b) Subsection (f) of section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended (1) by striking out " (f) " and inserting in 7/staS^903°907 lieu thereof "(f)(1)", (2) by inserting immediately after the third 33 USC 46'6g. sentence thereof the following: " I t shall be the responsibility of the Hearing Board 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 Hearing Board.", and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: "(2) I n connection with any hearing called under this section the Secretary is authorized to require any person whose alleged activities result in discharges causing or contributing to water pollution to file with him, in such form as he may prescribe, a report based on existing data, furnishing such information as may reasonably be required 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. Such report shall be made under oath or otherwise, as the Secretary may prescribe, and shall be filed with the Secretary within such reasonable period as the Secretary may prescribe, unless additional time be granted by the Secretary. 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. 62stat. 791. "(3) If any person required to file any report under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall fail to do so within the time fixed by the Secretary for filing the same, and such failure shall continue for thirty days after notice of such default, such person shall forefeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of the United States, and shall be recoverable in a civil suit in the name of the United States brought in the district where such person has his principal office or in any district in which he does business. The Secretary may upon application therefor remit or mitigate any forfeiture provided for under this paragraph and he shallhave authority to determine the facts upon all such applications. "(4) I t shall be the duty of the various United States attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to l^rosecute for the recovery of such forfeitures." SEC. 209. Paragraph (f) of section 13 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by striking out the period at the end 7o^o.f!Qn^,°^' thereoi and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "and 33 USC 466j. an Indian tril>e or an authorized Indian tribal organization."
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