The Nation - News from Oct. 16, 1986
The House approved and sent to the Senate a compromise $18-billion anti-pollution bill designed to continue a cleanup campaign along the nation’s waterways. The lawmakers moved to extend and strengthen the Clean Water Act, providing money to states through 1994 to build sewage and waste-water treatment facilities. While the legislation would end the federal grant program in 1994, a goal sought by the Reagan Administration, it spends three times as much in the interim as the Administration proposed in its budget.
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