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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
(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.
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