§ 1255. — Grants for research and development.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1255]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1255. Grants for research and development
(a) Demonstration projects covering storm waters, advanced waste
treatment and water purification methods, and joint treatment
systems for municipal and industrial wastes
The Administrator is authorized to conduct in the Environmental
Protection Agency, and to make grants to any State, municipality, or
intermunicipal or interstate agency for the purpose of assisting in the
development of--
(1) any project which will demonstrate a new or improved method
of preventing, reducing, and eliminating the discharge into any
waters of pollutants from sewers which carry storm water or both
storm water and pollutants; or
(2) any project which will demonstrate advanced waste treatment
and water purification methods (including the temporary use of new
or improved chemical additives which provide substantial immediate
improvements to existing treatment processes), or new or improved
methods of joint treatment systems for municipal and industrial
wastes;
and to include in such grants such amounts as are necessary for the
purpose of reports, plans, and specifications in connection therewith.
(b) Demonstration projects for advanced treatment and environmental
enhancement techniques to control pollution in river basins
The Administrator is authorized to make grants to any State or
States or interstate agency to demonstrate, in river basins or portions
thereof, advanced treatment and environmental enhancement techniques to
control pollution from all sources, within such basins or portions
thereof, including nonpoint sources, together with in stream \1\ water
quality improvement techniques.
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(c) Research and demonstration projects for prevention of water
pollution by industry
In order to carry out the purposes of section 1311 of this title,
the Administrator is authorized to (1) conduct in the Environmental
Protection Agency, (2) make grants to persons, and (3) enter into
contracts with persons, for research and demonstration projects for
prevention of pollution of any waters by industry including, but not
limited to, the prevention, reduction, and elimination of the discharge
of pollutants. No grant shall be made for any project under this
subsection unless the Administrator determines that such project will
develop or demonstrate a new or improved method of treating industrial
wastes or otherwise prevent pollution by industry, which method shall
have industrywide application.
(d) Accelerated and priority development of waste management and waste
treatment methods and identification and measurement methods
In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Administrator
shall conduct, on a priority basis, an accelerated effort to develop,
refine, and achieve practical application of:
(1) waste management methods applicable to point and nonpoint
sources of pollutants to eliminate the discharge of pollutants,
including, but not limited to, elimination of runoff of pollutants
and the effects of pollutants from inplace or accumulated sources;
(2) advanced waste treatment methods applicable to point and
nonpoint sources, including inplace or accumulated sources of
pollutants, and methods for reclaiming and recycling water and
confining pollutants so they will not migrate to cause water or
other environmental pollution; and
(3) improved methods and procedures to identify and measure the
effects of pollutants on the chemical, physical, and biological
integrity of water, including those pollutants created by new
technological developments.
(e) Research and demonstration projects covering agricultural pollution
and pollution from sewage in rural areas; dissemination of
information
(1) The Administrator is authorized to (A) make, in consultation
with the Secretary of Agriculture, grants to persons for research and
demonstration projects with respect to new and improved methods of
preventing, reducing, and eliminating pollution from agriculture, and
(B) disseminate, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, such
information obtained under this subsection, section 1254(p) of this
title, and section 1314 of this title as will encourage and enable the
adoption of such methods in the agricultural industry.
(2) The Administrator is authorized, (A) in consultation with other
interested Federal agencies, to make grants for demonstration projects
with respect to new and improved methods of preventing, reducing,
storing, collecting, treating, or otherwise eliminating pollution from
sewage in rural and other areas where collection of sewage in
conventional, community-wide sewage collection systems is impractical,
uneconomical, or otherwise infeasible, or where soil conditions or other
factors preclude the use of septic tank and drainage field systems, and
(B) in cooperation with other interested Federal and State agencies, to
disseminate such information obtained under this subsection as will
encourage and enable the adoption of new and improved methods developed
pursuant to this subsection.
(f) Limitations
Federal grants under subsection (a) of this section shall be subject
to the following limitations:
(1) No grant shall be made for any project unless such project
shall have been approved by the appropriate State water pollution
control agency or agencies and by the Administrator;
(2) No grant shall be made for any project in an amount
exceeding 75 per centum of cost thereof as determined by the
Administrator; and
(3) No grant shall be made for any project unless the
Administrator determines that such project will serve as a useful
demonstration for the purpose set forth in clause (1) or (2) of
subsection (a) of this section.
(g) Maximum grants
Federal grants under subsections (c) and (d) of this section shall
not exceed 75 per centum of the cost of the project.
(h) Authorization of appropriations
For the purpose of this section there is authorized to be
appropriated $75,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1973, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1975, and from such appropriations at least 10 per
centum of the funds actually appropriated in each fiscal year shall be
available only for the purposes of subsection (e) of this section.
(i) Assistance for research and demonstration projects
The Administrator is authorized to make grants to a municipality to
assist in the costs of operating and maintaining a project which
received a grant under this section, section 1254 of this title, or
section 1263 of this title prior to December 27, 1977, so as to reduce
the operation and maintenance costs borne by the recipients of services
from such project to costs comparable to those for projects assisted
under subchapter II of this chapter.
(j) Assistance for recycle, reuse, and land treatment projects
The Administrator is authorized to make a grant to any grantee who
received an increased grant pursuant to section 1282(a)(2) of this
title. Such grant may pay up to 100 per centum of the costs of technical
evaluation of the operation of the treatment works, costs of training of
persons (other than employees of the grantee), and costs of
disseminating technical information on the operation of the treatment
works.
(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, Sec. 105, as added Pub. L. 92-500,
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 825; amended Pub. L. 93-592, Sec. 2,
Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1925; Pub. L. 95-217, Secs. 8, 9, Dec. 27, 1977,
91 Stat. 1568.)
Amendments
1977--Subsecs. (i), (j). Pub. L. 95-217 added subsecs. (i) and (j).
1975--Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 93-592 substituted ``the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1974, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975,'' for
``and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974,''.
Transfer of Functions
Enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department
of Agriculture, insofar as they involve lands and programs under
jurisdiction of that Department, related to compliance with this chapter
with respect to pre-construction, construction, and initial operation of
transportation system for Canadian and Alaskan natural gas were
transferred to the Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for
the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, until the first
anniversary of date of initial operation of the Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1979, Secs. 102(f),
203(a), 44 F.R. 33663, 33666, 93 Stat. 1373, 1376, effective July 1,
1979, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees. Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System abolished and functions and authority vested in
Inspector transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 3012(b) of Pub.
L. 102-486, set out as an Abolition of Office of Federal Inspector note
under section 719e of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1254, 1263, 1376 of this
title.
