2018 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 26 - Water Pollution Prevention and Control
Subchapter V - General Provisions
Sec. 1370 - State authority
| 33 U.S.C. § 1370 (2018) |
| §1370. State authority |
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Except as expressly provided in this chapter, nothing in this chapter shall (1) preclude or deny the right of any State or political subdivision thereof or interstate agency to adopt or enforce (A) any standard or limitation respecting discharges of pollutants, or (B) any requirement respecting control or abatement of pollution; except that if an effluent limitation, or other limitation, effluent standard, prohibition, pretreatment standard, or standard of performance is in effect under this chapter, such State or political subdivision or interstate agency may not adopt or enforce any effluent limitation, or other limitation, effluent standard, prohibition, pretreatment standard, or standard of performance which is less stringent than the effluent limitation, or other limitation, effluent standard, prohibition, pretreatment standard, or standard of performance under this chapter; or (2) be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the States with respect to the waters (including boundary waters) of such States. |
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(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title V, §510, as added Pub. L. 92–500, §2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 893.) |
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| Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS CHAPTER 26 - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL SUBCHAPTER V - GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 1370 - State authority |
| section 1370 |
| 2018 |
| January 14, 2019 |
| No |
| standard |
| 86 Stat. 893 |
| Public Law 92-500 |
