33 USC 1324 - Clean lakes

U.S Code last checked for updates: Apr 29, 2024

§ 1324.

Clean lakes

(a)

Establishment and scope of program

(1)

State program requirements

Each State on a biennial basis shall prepare and submit to the Administrator for his approval—

(A)

an identification and classification according to eutrophic condition of all publicly owned lakes in such State;

(B)

a description of procedures, processes, and methods (including land use requirements), to control sources of pollution of such lakes;

(C)

a description of methods and procedures, in conjunction with appropriate Federal agencies, to restore the quality of such lakes;

(D)

methods and procedures to mitigate the harmful effects of high acidity, including innovative methods of neutralizing and restoring buffering capacity of lakes and methods of removing from lakes toxic metals and other toxic substances mobilized by high acidity;

(E)

a list and description of those publicly owned lakes in such State for which uses are known to be impaired, including those lakes which are known not to meet applicable water quality standards or which require implementation of control programs to maintain compliance with applicable standards and those lakes in which water quality has deteriorated as a result of high acidity that may reasonably be due to acid deposition; and

(F)

an assessment of the status and trends of water quality in lakes in such State, including but not limited to, the nature and extent of pollution loading from point and nonpoint sources and the extent to which the use of lakes is impaired as a result of such pollution, particularly with respect to toxic pollution.

(2)

Submission as part of 1315(b)(1) report

(3)

Report of Administrator

(4)

Eligibility requirement

(b)

Financial assistance to States

(c)

Maximum amount of grant; authorization of appropriations

(1)

The amount granted to any State for any fiscal year under subsection (b) of this section shall not exceed 70 per centum of the funds expended by such State in such year for carrying out approved methods and procedures under subsection (a) of this section.

(2)

There is authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005 for grants to States under subsection (b) of this section which such sums shall remain available until expended. The Administrator shall provide for an equitable distribution of such sums to the States with approved methods and procedures under subsection (a) of this section.

(d)

Demonstration program

(1)

General requirements

The Administrator is authorized and directed to establish and conduct at locations throughout the Nation a lake water quality demonstration program. The program shall, at a minimum—

(A)

develop cost effective technologies for the control of pollutants to preserve or enhance lake water quality while optimizing multiple lakes uses;

(B)

control nonpoint sources of pollution which are contributing to the degradation of water quality in lakes;

(C)

evaluate the feasibility of implementing regional consolidated pollution control strategies;

(D)

demonstrate environmentally preferred techniques for the removal and disposal of contaminated lake sediments;

(E)

develop improved methods for the removal of silt, stumps, aquatic growth, and other obstructions which impair the quality of lakes;

(F)

construct and evaluate silt traps and other devices or equipment to prevent or abate the deposit of sediment in lakes; and

(G)

demonstrate the costs and benefits of utilizing dredged material from lakes in the reclamation of despoiled land.

(2)

Geographical requirements

(3)

Reports

(4)

Authorization of appropriations

(A)

In general

(B)

Special authorizations

(i)

Amount

(ii)

Distribution of funds

(iii)

Grants as additional assistance

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title III, § 314, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 875; amended Pub. L. 95–217, §§ 4(f), 62(a), Dec. 27, 1977, 91 Stat. 1567, 1598; Pub. L. 96–483, § 1(f), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2360; Pub. L. 100–4, title I, § 101(g), title III, § 315(a), (b), (d), Feb. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 9, 49, 50, 52; Pub. L. 101–596, title III, § 302, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3006; Pub. L. 104–66, title II, § 2021(c), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 727; Pub. L. 105–362, title V, § 501(b), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3283; Pub. L. 106–457, title VII, §§ 701, 702, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1976; Pub. L. 107–303, title III, § 302(b)(1), Nov. 27, 2002, 116 Stat. 2361.)

cite as: 33 USC 1324