- United States Code
- TITLE 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
- CHAPTER 26 - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- SUBCHAPTER II - GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TREATMENT WORKS
Sec. 1281. Congressional declaration of purpose
- (a)
Development and implementation of waste treatment management
plans and practices
It is the purpose of this subchapter to require and to assist the
development and implementation of waste treatment management plans
and practices which will achieve the goals of this chapter.
- (b)
Application of technology: confined disposal of pollutants;
consideration of advanced techniques
Waste treatment management plans and practices shall provide for
the application of the best practicable waste treatment technology
before any discharge into receiving waters, including reclaiming
and recycling of water, and confined disposal of pollutants so they
will not migrate to cause water or other environmental pollution
and shall provide for consideration of advanced waste treatment
techniques.
- (c)
Waste treatment management area and scope
To the extent practicable, waste treatment management shall be on
an areawide basis and provide control or treatment of all point and
nonpoint sources of pollution, including in place or accumulated
pollution sources.
- (d)
Waste treatment management construction of revenue producing
facilities
The Administrator shall encourage waste treatment management
which results in the construction of revenue producing facilities
providing for -
- (1)
the recycling of potential sewage pollutants through the
production of agriculture, silviculture, or aquaculture products,
or any combination thereof;
- (2)
the confined and contained disposal of pollutants not
recycled;
- (3)
the reclamation of wastewater; and
- (4)
the ultimate disposal of sludge in a manner that will not
result in environmental hazards.
- (e)
Waste treatment management integration of facilities
The Administrator shall encourage waste treatment management
which results in integrating facilities for sewage treatment and
recycling with facilities to treat, dispose of, or utilize other
industrial and municipal wastes, including but not limited to solid
waste and waste heat and thermal discharges. Such integrated
facilities shall be designed and operated to produce revenues in
excess of capital and operation and maintenance costs and such
revenues shall be used by the designated regional management agency
to aid in financing other environmental improvement programs.
- (f)
Waste treatment management ''open space'' and recreational
considerations
The Administrator shall encourage waste treatment management
which combines ''open space'' and recreational considerations with
such management.
- (g)
Grants to construct publicly owned treatment works
- (1)
The Administrator is authorized to make grants to any State,
municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the
construction of publicly owned treatment works. On and after
October 1, 1984, grants under this subchapter shall be made only
for projects for secondary treatment or more stringent treatment,
or any cost effective alternative thereto, new interceptors and
appurtenances, and infiltration-in-flow correction.
Notwithstanding the preceding sentences, the Administrator may make
grants on and after October 1, 1984, for (A) any project within the
definition set forth in section 1292(2) of this title, other than
for a project referred to in the preceding sentence, and (B) any
purpose for which a grant may be made under sections [1]
1329(h) and (i) of this title (including any innovative and
alternative approaches for the control of nonpoint sources of
pollution), except that not more than 20 per centum (as determined
by the Governor of the State) of the amount allotted to a State
under section 1285 of this title for any fiscal year shall be
obligated in such State under authority of this sentence.
- (2)
The Administrator shall not make grants from funds authorized
for any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1974, to any State,
municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the
erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling,
improvement, or extension of treatment works unless the grant
applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated to the Administrator that
-
- (A)
alternative waste management techniques have been studied
and evaluated and the works proposed for grant assistance will
provide for the application of the best practicable waste
treatment technology over the life of the works consistent with
the purposes of this subchapter; and
- (B)
as appropriate, the works proposed for grant assistance
will take into account and allow to the extent practicable the
application of technology at a later date which will provide for
the reclaiming or recycling of water or otherwise eliminate the
discharge of pollutants.
