§ 1273. — Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1273]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1273. Lake Pontchartrain Basin
(a) Establishment of restoration program
The Administrator shall establish within the Environmental
Protection Agency the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
(b) Purpose
The purpose of the program shall be to restore the ecological health
of the Basin by developing and funding restoration projects and related
scientific and public education projects.
(c) Duties
In carrying out the program, the Administrator shall--
(1) provide administrative and technical assistance to a
management conference convened for the Basin under section 1330 of
this title;
(2) assist and support the activities of the management
conference, including the implementation of recommendations of the
management conference;
(3) support environmental monitoring of the Basin and research
to provide necessary technical and scientific information;
(4) develop a comprehensive research plan to address the
technical needs of the program;
(5) coordinate the grant, research, and planning programs
authorized under this section; and
(6) collect and make available to the public publications, and
other forms of information the management conference determines to
be appropriate, relating to the environmental quality of the Basin.
(d) Grants
The Administrator may make grants--
(1) for restoration projects and studies recommended by a
management conference convened for the Basin under section 1330 of
this title; and
(2) for public education projects recommended by the management
conference.
(e) Definitions
In this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) Basin
The term ``Basin'' means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, a 5,000
square mile watershed encompassing 16 parishes in the State of
Louisiana and 4 counties in the State of Mississippi.
(2) Program
The term ``program'' means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
Restoration Program established under subsection (a) of this
section.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
(1) In general
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005. Such sums
shall remain available until expended.
(2) Public education projects
Not more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated pursuant to
paragraph (1) in a fiscal year may be expended on grants for public
education projects under subsection (d)(2) of this section.
(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, Sec. 121, as added Pub. L. 106-457,
title V, Sec. 502, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1973.)
Codification
Another section 121 of act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, is classified to
section 1274 of this title.
