§ 1259. — Training grants and contracts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1259]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1259. Training grants and contracts
(a) The Administrator is authorized to make grants to or contracts
with institutions of higher education, or combinations of such
institutions, to assist them in planning, developing, strengthening,
improving, or carrying out programs or projects for the preparation of
undergraduate students to enter an occupation which involves the design,
operation, and maintenance of treatment works, and other facilities
whose purpose is water quality control. Such grants or contracts may
include payment of all or part of the cost of programs or projects such
as--
(A) planning for the development or expansion of programs or
projects for training persons in the operation and maintenance of
treatment works;
(B) training and retraining of faculty members;
(C) conduct of short-term or regular session institutes for
study by persons engaged in, or preparing to engage in, the
preparation of students preparing to enter an occupation involving
the operation and maintenance of treatment works;
(D) carrying out innovative and experimental programs of
cooperative education involving alternate periods of full-time or
part-time academic study at the institution and periods of full-time
or part-time employment involving the operation and maintenance of
treatment works; and
(E) research into, and development of, methods of training
students or faculty, including the preparation of teaching materials
and the planning of curriculum.
(b)(1) The Administrator may pay 100 per centum of any additional
cost of construction of treatment works required for a facility to train
and upgrade waste treatment works operation and maintenance personnel
and for the costs of other State treatment works operator training
programs, including mobile training units, classroom rental, specialized
instructors, and instructional material.
(2) The Administrator shall make no more than one grant for such
additional construction in any State (to serve a group of States, where,
in his judgment, efficient training programs require multi-State
programs), and shall make such grant after consultation with and
approval by the State or States on the basis of (A) the suitability of
such facility for training operation and maintenance personnel for
treatment works throughout such State or States; and (B) a commitment by
the State agency or agencies to carry out at such facility a program of
training approved by the Administrator. In any case where a grant is
made to serve two or more States, the Administrator is authorized to
make an additional grant for a supplemental facility in each such State.
(3) The Administrator may make such grant out of the sums allocated
to a State under section 1285 of this title, except that in no event
shall the Federal cost of any such training facilities exceed $500,000.
(4) The Administrator may exempt a grant under this section from any
requirement under section 1284(a)(3) of this title. Any grantee who
received a grant under this section prior to enactment of the Clean
Water Act of 1977 shall be eligible to have its grant increased by funds
made available under such Act.
(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, Sec. 109, as added Pub. L. 92-500,
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 829; amended Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 10,
Dec. 27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1568.)
References in Text
Prior to the date of enactment of the Clean Water Act of 1977,
referred to in subsec. (b)(4), means prior to the enactment of Pub. L.
95-217, Dec. 27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1566, which was approved Dec. 27, 1977.
Such Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(4), means Pub. L. 95-217, Dec.
27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1566, as amended, known as the Clean Water Act of
1977. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title of 1977 Amendment note set out under section 1251 of this title
and Tables.
Amendments
1977--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 10(c), (d), substituted
``cost of construction of treatment works required for a facility to
train and upgrade waste treatment works operation and maintenance
personnel and for the costs of other State treatment works operator
training programs, including mobile training units, classroom rental,
specialized instructors, and instructional material'' for ``cost of
construction of a treatment works required for a facility to train and
upgrade waste treatment works operation and maintenance personnel''.
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 10(e), authorized Administrator
to make an additional grant for a supplemental facility in each of the
States in any case where a grant is made to serve two or more States.
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 10(a), substituted ``$500,000''
for ``$250,000''.
Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 10(b), added par. (4).
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1260, 1262, 1375 of this
title.
