1 Water Quality Act of 1965 required states to issue water quality standards for interstate waters, and authorized the newly created Federal Water Pollution Control Administration to set standards where states failed to do so.ts objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources, providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement of wastewater treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands.
The United States Constitution provides that each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, therefore each Congress of the United States, upon convening, approves its own governing rules of procedure.
RESOLVED, That the Permanent Rules of the House of Representatives (2009-2010) be adopted as the Permanent Rules of the House of Representatives for the 2011-2012 session of the House of Representatives with the following amendments to the heading and definitions of the Rules and to Rules 14, 19(a), 35, 43, 44, 45, 47, 64(a):