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