Water Quality Act of 1965

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The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.

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Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal statute
environmental law
amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
appliesTo interstate waters
country United States of America
surface form: United States
enforcementMechanism state implementation subject to federal oversight
field environmental protection
water resource management
follows Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
hasEffect creation of enforceable water quality standards for interstate waters
expansion of state responsibilities for water pollution control
increased federal oversight of state water quality programs
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: United States federal government
legalStatus statute
legislativeBody United States Congress
legislativeBranch United States federal environmental legislation
mainSubject water pollution control
water quality standards
partOf United States water pollution control framework
policyType command-and-control environmental regulation
purpose to require states to enforce water quality standards for interstate waters
to require states to establish water quality standards for interstate waters
to strengthen national efforts to control water pollution
regulates discharges affecting interstate waters
regulatoryFocus pollution abatement
water quality
relatedTo Clean Water Act
Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948
surface form: Federal Water Pollution Control Act
requires state enforcement of water quality standards
state establishment of water quality standards
scope interstate surface waters
timePeriod 1960s United States environmental policy

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Water Quality Act of 1965
Description of subject: The Water Quality Act of 1965 was a U.S. federal law that strengthened national efforts to control water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waters.

Referenced by (5)

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Great Society hasPart Water Quality Act of 1965
Johnson administration environmentalLegislation Water Quality Act of 1965
Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 amendedBy Water Quality Act of 1965
this entity surface form: Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1965
Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 amendedBy Water Quality Act of 1965
Federal Water Quality Administration operatedUnder Water Quality Act of 1965