Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§2694d Participation in Pollutant Banks and Water Quality Trading

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter 159— REAL PROPERTY; RELATED PERSONAL PROPERTY; AND LEASE OF NON-EXCESS PROPERTY › § 2694d

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows a military department Secretary, and the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies, to pay into pollutant-banking or water-quality trading programs when a authorized activity may or will release pollutants. The program must be approved under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Quality Trading Policy dated January 13, 2003, or any later related guidance or rule. Those payments can be treated as eligible costs for military construction projects. The term "discharge of pollutants" means what section 502(12) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(12)) defines.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2694d

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of a military department, and the Secretary of Defense with respect to matters concerning a Defense Agency, when engaged in an authorized activity that may or will result in the discharge of pollutants, may make payments to a pollutant banking program or water quality trading program approved in accordance with the Water Quality Trading Policy dated January 13, 2003, set forth by the Office of Water of the Environmental Protection Agency, or any successor administrative guidance or regulation.

(b)Payments made under subsection (a) to a pollutant banking program or water quality trading program may be treated as eligible project costs for military construction.

(c)In this section, the term “discharge of pollutants” has the meaning given that term in section 502(12) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(12)) (commonly referred to as the “Clean Water Act”).

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10 U.S.C. § 2694d

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60