§ 1292. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC1292]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 26--WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER II--GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TREATMENT WORKS
Sec. 1292. Definitions
As used in this subchapter--
(1) The term ``construction'' means any one or more of the
following: preliminary planning to determine the feasibility of
treatment works, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic
investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings,
specifications, procedures, field testing of innovative or alternative
waste water treatment processes and techniques meeting guidelines
promulgated under section 1314(d)(3) of this title, or other necessary
actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling,
improvement, or extension of treatment works, or the inspection or
supervision of any of the foregoing items.
(2)(A) The term ``treatment works'' means any devices and systems
used in the storage, treatment, recycling, and reclamation of municipal
sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to implement section 1281
of this title, or necessary to recycle or reuse water at the most
economical cost over the estimated life of the works, including
intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, pumping,
power, and other equipment, and their appurtenances; extensions,
improvements, remodeling, additions, and alterations thereof; elements
essential to provide a reliable recycled supply such as standby
treatment units and clear well facilities; and any works, including site
acquisition of the land that will be an integral part of the treatment
process (including land used for the storage of treated wastewater in
land treatment systems prior to land application) or is used for
ultimate disposal of residues resulting from such treatment.
(B) In addition to the definition contained in subparagraph (A) of
this paragraph, ``treatment works'' means any other method or system for
preventing, abating, reducing, storing, treating, separating, or
disposing of municipal waste, including storm water runoff, or
industrial waste, including waste in combined storm water and sanitary
sewer systems. Any application for construction grants which includes
wholly or in part such methods or systems shall, in accordance with
guidelines published by the Administrator pursuant to subparagraph (C)
of this paragraph, contain adequate data and analysis demonstrating such
proposal to be, over the life of such works, the most cost efficient
alternative to comply with sections 1311 or 1312 of this title, or the
requirements of section 1281 of this title.
(C) For the purposes of subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the
Administrator shall, within one hundred and eighty days after October
18, 1972, publish and thereafter revise no less often than annually,
guidelines for the evaluation of methods, including cost-effective
analysis, described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.
(3) The term ``replacement'' as used in this subchapter means those
expenditures for obtaining and installing equipment, accessories, or
appurtenances during the useful life of the treatment works necessary to
maintain the capacity and performance for which such works are designed
and constructed.
(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title II, Sec. 212, as added Pub. L. 92-500,
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 844; amended Pub. L. 95-217, Sec. 37,
Dec. 27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1581; Pub. L. 97-117, Sec. 8(d), Dec. 29, 1981,
95 Stat. 1626.)
Amendments
1981--Par. (1). Pub. L. 97-117 inserted ``field testing of
innovative or alternative waste water treatment processes and techniques
meeting guidelines promulgated under section 1314(d)(3) of this title,''
after ``procedures,''.
1977--Par. (2)(A). Pub. L. 95-217 inserted ``(including land used
for the storage of treated wastewater in land treatment systems prior to
land application)'' after ``integral part of the treatment process''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1281, 1285, 1317, 1342,
1345, 1375, 1381, 1383, 1414b of this title; title 26 section 7701.
