Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73

§1260 Applications; allocation

Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 26— - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS › § 1260

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

To get a grant or contract under this program, an applicant must send an application to the Administrator when asked and include the information the Administrator requires. The application must describe the activities, research, or projects to be funded and how they relate to any related application the applicant filed; show it has proper financial controls and accounting for federal money; and agree to give required reports, keep records, and let the Administrator check those records. The Administrator must try to spread grants fairly across the United States to colleges and universities that can use the funds well. Grant money may, under the Administrator’s rules and the approved application, help pay part of students’ wages for approved programs related to operating or maintaining treatment works, but not to pay students as federal government employees. Federal departments and agencies are encouraged, when practical, to hire such students full‑time, part‑time, or temporarily.

Full Legal Text

Title 33, §1260

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(1)A grant or contract authorized by section 1259 of this title may be made only upon application to the Administrator at such time or times and containing such information as he may prescribe, except that no such application shall be approved unless it—

(A)sets forth programs, activities, research, or development for which a grant is authorized under section 1259 of this title and describes the relation to any program set forth by the applicant in an application, if any, submitted pursuant to section 1261 of this title;

(B)provides such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this section; and

(C)provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Administrator may require to carry out his functions under this section, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Administrator may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.

(2)The Administrator shall allocate grants or contracts under section 1259 of this title in such manner as will most nearly provide an equitable distribution of the grants or contracts throughout the United States among institutions of higher education which show promise of being able to use funds effectively for the purpose of this section.

(3)(A)Payments under this section may be used in accordance with regulations of the Administrator, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in an application approved under paragraph (1), to pay part of the compensation of students employed in connection with the operation and maintenance of treatment works, other than as an employee in connection with the operation and maintenance of treatment works or as an employee in any branch of the Government of the United States, as part of a program for which a grant has been approved pursuant to this section.

(B)Departments and agencies of the United States are encouraged, to the extent consistent with efficient administration, to enter into arrangements with institutions of higher education for the full-time, part-time, or temporary employment, whether in the competitive or excepted service, of students enrolled in programs set forth in applications approved under paragraph (1).

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Citation

33 U.S.C. § 1260

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73