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33 U.S.C. § 1273 — Lake Pontchartrain Basin

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33 U.S.C. § 1273 — Lake Pontchartrain Basin

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**(a) Establishment of restoration program** The Administrator shall establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program. **(b) Purpose** The purpose of the program shall be to restore the ecological health of the Basin by developing and funding restoration projects and related scientific and public education projects. **(c) Duties** In carrying out the program, the Administrator shall— (1) provide administrative and technical assistance to a management conference convened for the Basin under [section 1330 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1330&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) assist and support the activities of the management conference, including the implementation of recommendations of the management conference; (3) support environmental monitoring of the Basin and research to provide necessary technical and scientific information; (4) develop a comprehensive research plan to address the technical needs of the program; (5) coordinate the grant, research, and planning programs authorized under this section; (6) collect and make available to the public publications, and other forms of information the management conference determines to be appropriate, relating to the environmental quality of the Basin; and (7) ensure that the comprehensive conservation and management plan approved for the Basin under [section 1330 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1330&num=0&edition=prelim) is reviewed and revised in accordance with [section 1330 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1330&num=0&edition=prelim) not less often than once every 5 years, beginning on December 23, 2022. **(d) Grants** The Administrator may make grants to pay not more than 75 percent of the costs— (1) for restoration projects and studies identified in the comprehensive conservation and management plan approved for the Basin under [section 1330 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1330&num=0&edition=prelim); and (2) for public education projects recommended by the management conference. **(e) Definitions** In this section, the following definitions apply: (1) **Basin** — The term “Basin” means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, a 10,000 square mile watershed encompassing 16 parishes in the State of Louisiana and 4 counties in the State of Mississippi. (2) **Program** — The term “program” means the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program established under subsection (a). **(f) Authorization of appropriations** (1) **In general** — There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2012 and the amount appropriated for fiscal year 2009 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2017. Such sums shall remain available until expended. (2) **Public education projects** — Not more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) in a fiscal year may be expended on grants for public education projects under subsection (d)(2). (3) **Administrative expenses** — Not more than 5 percent of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section may be used for administrative expenses.

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33 U.S.C. § 1330 — National estuary program

**(a) Management conference** (1) **Nomination of estuaries** — The Governor of any State may nominate to the Administrator an estuary lying in whole or in part within the State as an estuary of national significance and request a management conference to develop a comprehensive management plan for the estuary. The nomination shall document the need for the conference, the likelihood of success, and information relating to the factors in paragraph (2). (2) **Convening of conference** (A) *In general* — In any case where the Administrator determines, on his own initiative or upon nomination of a State under paragraph (1), that the attainment or maintenance of that water quality in an estuary which assures protection of public water supplies and the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife, and allows recreational activities, in and on the water, requires the control of point and nonpoint sources of pollution to supplement existing controls of pollution in more than one State, the Administrator shall select such estuary and convene a management conference. (B) *Priority consideration* — The Administrator shall give priority consideration under this section to Long Island Sound, New York and Connecticut; Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts (including Cape Cod Bay and Boston Harbor); Puget Sound, Washington; New York-New Jersey Harbor, New York and New Jersey; Delaware Bay, Delaware and New Jersey; Delaware Inland Bays, Delaware; Albemarle Sound, North Carolina; Sarasota Bay, Florida; San Francisco Bay, California; Santa Monica Bay, California; Galveston Bay, Texas; Barataria-Terrebonne Bay estuary complex, Louisiana; Indian River Lagoon, Florida; Lake P

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33 U.S.C. § 1274 — Watershed pilot projects

**(a) In general** The Administrator, in coordination with the States, may provide technical assistance and grants to a municipality or municipal entity to carry out pilot projects relating to the following areas: (1) **Watershed management of wet weather discharges** — The management of municipal combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, and stormwater discharges, on an integrated watershed or subwatershed basis for the purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of a unified wet weather approach. (2) **Stormwater best management practices** — The control of pollutants from municipal separate storm sewer systems for the purpose of demonstrating and determining controls that are cost-effective and that use innovative technologies to manage, reduce, treat, recapture, or reuse municipal stormwater, including techniques that utilize infiltration, evapotranspiration, and reuse of stormwater onsite. (3) **Watershed partnerships** — Efforts of municipalities and property owners to demonstrate cooperative ways to address nonpoint sources of pollution to reduce adverse impacts on water quality. (4) **Integrated water resource plan** — The development of an integrated water resource plan for the coordinated management and protection of surface water, ground water, and stormwater resources on a watershed or subwatershed basis to meet the objectives, goals, and policies of this chapter. (5) **Municipality-wide stormwater management planning** — The development of a municipality-wide plan that identifies the most effective placement of stormwater technologies and management approaches, to reduce water quality impairments from stormwater on a municipality-wide basis. (6) **Increased resilience of treatment works** — Efforts to assess future risks and vulnerabilities o

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33 U.S.C. § 1251 — Congressional declaration of goals and policy

**(a) Restoration and maintenance of chemical, physical and biological integrity of Nation’s waters; national goals for achievement of objective** The objective of this chapter is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters. In order to achieve this objective it is hereby declared that, consistent with the provisions of this chapter— (1) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985; (2) it is the national goal that wherever attainable, an interim goal of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water be achieved by July 1, 1983; (3) it is the national policy that the discharge of toxic pollutants in toxic amounts be prohibited; (4) it is the national policy that Federal financial assistance be provided to construct publicly owned waste treatment works; (5) it is the national policy that areawide waste treatment management planning processes be developed and implemented to assure adequate control of sources of pollutants in each State; (6) it is the national policy that a major research and demonstration effort be made to develop technology necessary to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters, waters of the contiguous zone, and the oceans; and (7) it is the national policy that programs for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution be developed and implemented in an expeditious manner so as to enable the goals of this chapter to be met through the control of both point and nonpoint sources of pollution. **(b) Congressional recognition, preservation, and protection of primary responsibilities and rights of States** It is the policy

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33 U.S.C. § 1273 — Lake Pontchartrain Basin

Page 401 TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS § 1273 Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, as amended generally by Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816, which is classified generally to this chapter (§ 1251 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1251 of this title and Tables. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Com- pensation, and Liability Act of 1980, referred to in sub- sec. (e), is Pub. L. 96–510, Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2767, which is classified principally to chapter 103 (§ 9601 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9601 of Title 42 and Tables. CODIFICATION Section was formerly set out as a note under section 1252 of this title. Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter. AMENDMENTS 2000—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 106–541 added subsec. (g). 1999—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106–53, § 224(1)(A), sub- stituted ‘‘35 percent’’ for ‘‘50 percent’’. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106–53, § 224(1)(B), substituted ‘‘$50,000,000’’ for ‘‘$20,000,000’’. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–53, § 224(2), substituted ‘‘shared as a cost of construction’’ for ‘‘non-Federal re- sponsibility’’. Subsec. (f)(6) to (8). Pub. L. 106–53, § 224(3), added pars. (6) to (8). 1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–303, § 205(1), inserted ‘‘and remediate’’ after ‘‘remove’’. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 104–303, § 205(1), (2)(A), inserted ‘‘and remediate’’ after ‘‘remove’’ and inserted ‘‘and r

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