42 U.S.C. § 300j–3a: Grants to public sector…

Summary

The EPA must give grants to public agencies to help create and test new or better ways to provide safe drinking water. Grants can also fund projects that study reclaiming, recycling, and reusing wastewater for drinking or farming, and the methods to make that water safe. Building demonstration projects is allowed. Grants can cover up to 66⅔% of building costs and up to 75% of other costs. Any project that builds or changes a public water system must be approved by the state's drinking water safety agency or, if there is none, the state health authority. The EPA must, after consulting, decide the project will help develop or demonstrate new techniques for safe drinking water. Congress authorized $25,000,000 for these grants for fiscal year 1978.

Title 42, §300j–3a

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(a)Assistance for development and demonstration projects

The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall offer grants to public sector agencies for the purposes of— (1)

(2)assisting in the development and demonstration (including construction) of any project which will investigate and demonstrate health and conservation implications involved in the reclamation, recycling, and reuse of wastewaters for drinking and agricultural use or the processes and methods for the preparation of safe and acceptable drinking water.

(b)Limitations

Grants made by the Administrator under this section shall be subject to the following limitations:

(1)Grants under this section shall not exceed 66⅔ per centum of the total cost of construction of any facility and 75 per centum of any other costs, as determined by the Administrator.

(2)Grants under this section shall not be made for any project involving the construction or modification of any facilities for any public water system in a State unless such project has been approved by the State agency charged with the responsibility for safety of drinking water (or if there is no such agency in a State, by the State health authority).

(3)Grants under this section shall not be made for any project unless the Administrator determines, after consultation, that such project will serve a useful purpose relating to the development and demonstration of new or improved techniques, methods, or technologies for the provision of safe water to the public for drinking.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this section $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1978.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1978—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 95–477 inserted “agricultural use or” after “drinking and”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1978 Amendment Pub. L. 95–477, § 7(a)(2), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1511, provided that: “This subsection [amending this section] shall become effective October 1, 1978.”

§300j–3a Grants to Public Sector Agencies