A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to the discharge of pollutants into ocean waters.

Permits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to extend from July 1, l977, until July 1, 1982, the deadline for the achievement of effluent limitations of public treatment works required by the Federal Water Pollution Act.

Directs the Administrator, when considering such extension, to consider the cost involved in achieving secondary and alternative treatment and the effects such secondary and alternative treatment will have on public health and water quality.