§ 1257. — Mine water pollution control demonstrations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1257]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1257. Mine water pollution control demonstrations
(a) Comprehensive approaches to elimination or control of mine water
pollution
The Administrator in cooperation with the Appalachian Regional
Commission and other Federal agencies is authorized to conduct, to make
grants for, or to contract for, projects to demonstrate comprehensive
approaches to the elimination or control of acid or other mine water
pollution resulting from active or abandoned mining operations and other
environmental pollution affecting water quality within all or part of a
watershed or river basin, including siltation from surface mining. Such
projects shall demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and
practicality of various abatement techniques which will contribute
substantially to effective and practical methods of acid or other mine
water pollution elimination or control, and other pollution affecting
water quality, including techniques that demonstrate the engineering and
economic feasibility and practicality of using sewage sludge materials
and other municipal wastes to diminish or prevent pollution affecting
water quality from acid, sedimentation, or other pollutants and in such
projects to restore affected lands to usefulness for forestry,
agriculture, recreation, or other beneficial purposes.
(b) Consistency of projects with objectives of subtitle IV of title 40
Prior to undertaking any demonstration project under this section in
the Appalachian region (as defined in section 14102(a)(1) and (b) of
title 40), the Appalachian Regional Commission shall determine that such
demonstration project is consistent with the objectives of subtitle IV
of title 40.
(c) Watershed selection
The Administrator, in selecting watersheds for the purposes of this
section, shall be satisfied that the project area will not be affected
adversely by the influx of acid or other mine water pollution from
nearby sources.
(d) Conditions upon Federal participation
Federal participation in such projects shall be subject to the
conditions--
(1) that the State shall acquire any land or interests therein
necessary for such project; and
(2) that the State shall provide legal and practical protection
to the project area to insure against any activities which will
cause future acid or other mine water pollution.
(e) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 to carry out the
provisions of this section, which sum shall be available until expended.
(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, Sec. 107, as added Pub. L. 92-500,
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 828.)
Codification
In subsec. (b), ``section 14102(a)(1) and (b) of title 40''
substituted for ``section 403 of the Appalachian Regional Development
Act of 1965, as amended'' and ``subtitle IV of title 40'' substituted
for ``the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended'' on
authority of Pub. L. 107-217, Sec. 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303,
the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property,
and Works.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1376 of this title.
