1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act II . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In 1972, Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, which required publicly owned treatment works to achieve secondary treatment capability by 1977. (2) In 1994, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California determined that upgrading the City of San Diego’s Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant (in this Act referred to as the Point Loma Plant ) to secondary treatment standard would not be in the public interest, being excessively costly without producing additional environmental benefits. (3) The Point Loma Plant currently meets all the requirements of secondary treatment except for the removal of total suspended solids and biochemical oxygen demand. (4) At the direction of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (in this Act referred to as the EPA ) requested that the National Research Council advise the agency on ways to improve wastewater management in coastal urban areas. The resulting study Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas produced several important findings, including— (A) biochemical oxygen demand discharged through a well-designed outfall is generally not of ecological concern in open coastal waters; (B) total suspended solids can be adequately controlled by advanced primary treatment and high dilution outfalls