[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR40.110]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 40_RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 40.110  Authority.

    EPA research and demonstration grants are authorized under the 
following statutes:
    (a) The Clean Air Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1857 et seq.
    (1) Section 103 (42 U.S.C. 1857b) authorizes grants for research and 
demonstration projects relating to the causes, effects, extent, 
prevention, and control of air pollution.
    (2) Section 104 (42 U.S.C. 1857b-1) authorizes grants for research 
and development of new and improved methods for the prevention and 
control of air pollution resulting from the combustion of fuels.
    (b) The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, Public Law 
92-500.
    (1) Section 104(b) (33 U.S.C. 1254(b)) authorizes grants for 
research and demonstration projects relating to the causes, effects, 
extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution.
    (2) Section 104(h) (33 U.S.C. 1254(h)) authorizes grants for 
research and development of new and improved methods for the prevention, 
removal, reduction, and elimination of pollution in lakes, including the 
undesirable effects of nutrients and vegetation, and for construction of 
publicly owned research facilities for such purpose.
    (3) Section 104(i) (33 U.S.C. 1254(i)) authorizes grants for 
research, studies, experiments, and demonstrations relative to the 
removal of oil from any waters and for the prevention, control, and 
elimination of oil and hazardous substances pollution.
    (4) Section 104(r) (33 U.S.C. 1254(r)) authorized grants for the 
conduct of basic research into the structure and function of freshwater 
aquatic ecosystems, and to improve understanding

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of the ecological characteristics necessary to the maintenance of the 
chemical, physical, and biological integrity of freshwater aquatic 
ecosystems.
    (5) Section 104(s) (33 U.S.C. (s)) authorizes grants to conduct and 
report on interdisciplinary studies on river systems, including 
hydrology, biology, ecology, economics, the relationship between river 
uses and land uses, and the effects of development within river basins 
on river systems and on the value of water resources and water-related 
activities.
    (6) Section 105(a) (33 U.S.C. 1255(a)) authorizes grants for 
research and demonstration of new or improved methods for preventing, 
reducing, and eliminating the discharge into any waters of pollutants 
from sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and pollutants; 
and for the demonstration of advanced waste treatment and water 
purification methods (including the temporary use of new or improved 
chemical additives which provide substantial immediate improvement to 
existing treatment processes), or new or improved methods of joint 
treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastes.
    (7) Section 105(b) (33 U.S.C. 1255(b)) authorizes grants for 
demonstrating, in river basins or portions thereof, advanced treatment 
and environmental enhancement techniques to control pollution from all 
sources, within such basin or portions thereof, including nonpoint 
sources, together with in-stream water quality improvement techniques.
    (8) Section 105(c) (33 U.S.C. 1255(c)) authorizes grants for 
research and demonstration projects for prevention of pollution of any 
waters by industry including, but not limited to, the prevention, 
reduction, and elimination of the discharge of pollutants.
    (9) Section 105(e)(1) (33 U.S.C. 1255(e)(1)) authorizes grants for 
research and demonstration projects with respect to new and improved 
methods of preventing, reducing, and eliminating pollution from 
agriculture.
    (10) Section 105(e)(2) (33 U.S.C. 1255(e)(2)) authorizes grants for 
demonstration projects with respect to new and improved methods of 
preventing, reducing, storing, collecting, treating, or otherwise 
eliminating pollution from sewage in rural and other areas where 
collection of sewage in conventional, communitywide sewage collection 
systems is impractical, uneconomical, or otherwise infeasible, or where 
soil conditions or other factors preclude the use of septic tank and 
drainage field systems.
    (11) Section 107 (33 U.S.C. 1257) authorizes grants for projects to 
demonstrate comprehensive approaches to the elimination or control of 
acid or other mine water pollution resulting from active or abandoned 
mining operations and other environmental pollution affecting water 
quality within all or part of a watershed or river basin, including 
siltation from surface mining.
    (12) Section 108 (33 U.S.C. 1258) authorizes grants for projects to 
demonstrate new methods and techniques, and to develop preliminary plans 
for the elimination or control of pollution within all or any part of 
the watersheds of the Great Lakes.
    (13) Section 113 (33 U.S.C. 1263) authorizes grants for projects to 
demonstrate methods to provide for central community facilities for safe 
water and elimination or control of pollution in those native villages 
of Alaska without such facilities.
    (c) The Public Health Service Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 241 et seq.
    (1) Section 301 (42 U.S.C. 241, 242b, and 246) authorizes grants for 
research relating to the human and environmental effects of radiation.
    (2) [Reserved]
    (d) The Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, by the Resource 
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.).
    (1) Section 8001 (42 U.S.C. 6981) authorizes grants for research and 
demonstration projects relating to solid waste.
    (2) Section 8004 (42 U.S.C. 6984) authorizes grants for 
demonstration of new or improved technologies for resource recovery.
    (3) Section 8005 (42 U.S.C. 6985) authorizes grants to conduct 
special studies and demonstration projects on recovery of useful energy 
and materials.
    (4) Section 8006 (42 U.S.C. 6986) authorizes grants for the 
demonstration

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of resource recovery system or for the construction of new or improved 
solid waste disposal facilities.
    (e) The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as 
amended, Public Law 92-516.
    (1) Section 20 authorizes grants for research in the pesticides 
areas with priority given to the development of biologically integrated 
alternatives for pest control.
    (2) [Reserved]
    (f) The Grant Act, 42 U.S.C. 1891 et seq., authorizes grants for 
basic scientific research.

[38 FR 12784, May 15, 1973, as amended at 42 FR 56056, Oct. 20, 1977]