Cruise ships generate up to one million gallons of waste water per week, writes John Pain, and "currently the federal Clean Water Act from the 1970s lets cruise ships dump raw sewage anywhere outside of a 3-nautical mile limit from U.S. shores." There is a push in Congress to strengthen the marine pollution standards with the Clean Cruise Ship Act which provides that "cruise ships from 12 to 200 nautical miles from the coasts could discharge sewage, bilge water or other wastewater only if they are treated to reduce levels of fecal coliform and other pollutants to meet standards much stricter than current law." The cruise industry claims that they have installed new equipment that exceeds the current standards and that the new standards are not based on science. They want to wait for EPA data that will evaluate how well the new equipment is working on wastewater dumped in Alaska. EPA also agrees that new national standards should not be established with the Alaska data.