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Page 132 - SEC. 15. If a provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid shall
Page 52 - sections 13 through 17 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes", approved March 3,1899, as amended, or (3) affecting or impairing the provisions of any treaty of the United States. SEPARABILITY SEC.
Page 86 - 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
Page 15 - (2) provides that such agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time reasonably require to carry out his functions under this Act ; (5) provides such accounting, budgeting, and other fiscal methods and procedures as are necessary for the proper and efficient administration
Page 52 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. (f ) The term "municipality" means a city, town, borough, county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law and having jurisdiction over disposal of sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes, and an Indian tribe or an authorized Indian tribal organization.
Page 16 - shall be promulgated by the Secretary between July 1 and September 30 of each even-numbered year, on the basis of the average of the per capita incomes of the States and of the continental United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from
Page 138 - uge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same. SEC. 12. That
Page 124 - of this Act, or the application of any provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, and the remainder of this Act, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 13. This Act may be cited as the "Water Pollution Control Act".
Page 262 - SEC. 205. In exercising its powers, functions,, and duties under this Act, the Council shall— (8) to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request. ( 1 ) consult with the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality established by Executive Order numbered 11472, 34
Page 66 - States Code shall be considered confidential for the purpose of that section, except that such information may be disclosed to other officers or employees concerned with carrying out this section. This paragraph shall not apply in the case of the construction of a vessel by an individual for his own use.