§23 [water Pollution Control Act; Amendment.]

Summary

Changes how the federal share rules for program-operation grants treat the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. It replaces the term "continental United States" with "United States", removes a parenthetical that mentioned Alaska, and deletes a specific 50 percent line for Hawaii. It says the "United States" means the fifty States and the District of Columbia. Until the Department of Commerce has one full year of per‑capita income data for Alaska, the federal share for Alaska must be 50 percent and Alaska is not counted as part of the "United States" for those grant-share rules. After that, but before Alaska has three full years of data, the shares must be based on whatever one- or two‑year Alaska data are available. It also removes "Hawaii" from the list defining "State" in section 11(d).