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The United States Congress, in amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1972, tied the control of water pollution to the application of pollution control technology. By 1977 all major point sources of water pollution were to have “best practicable control technology” (BPT) in place followed by the application in 1983 of “best available control technology” (BAT). The specific levels of discharges and technology for their achievement are being described in industry “development documents” issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 1
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Watson, W.D. (1980). Costs and Benefits of Water Pollution Control. In: Lakshmanan, T.R., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Economic—Environmental—Energy Interactions. Studies in Applied Regional Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8739-5_4
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