---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1302c"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1302c"
heading: "Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1302c"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Grants for Construction of Treatment Works"
---

# §1302c. Small publicly owned treatment works efficiency grant program

- (a) **Establishment—** Subject to the availability of appropriations, not later than 180 days after November 15, 2021, the Administrator shall establish an efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11) (referred to in this section as the “efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11)”) under which the Administrator shall award grants to eligible entities for the [replacement](/usc/33/1292.md?p=3) or repair of equipment that improves water or energy efficiency of small publicly owned [treatment works](/usc/33/1292.md?p=2-A), as identified in an efficiency audit.
- (b) **Eligible entities—** The Administrator may award a grant under the efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11) to—
  - (1) an owner or operator of a small publicly owned [treatment works](/usc/33/1292.md?p=2-A) that serves—
    - (A) a population of not more than 10,000 people; or
    - (B) a disadvantaged community; or
  - (2) a [nonprofit organization](/usc/33/1981.md?p=9) that seeks to assist a small publicly owned [treatment works](/usc/33/1292.md?p=2-A) described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) to carry out the activities described in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Report—** Not later than 2 years after the date on which the Administrator establishes the efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11), and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report describing—
  - (1) each recipient of a grant under the efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11); and
  - (2) a summary of the activities carried out under the efficiency grant [program](/usc/33/467.md?p=11).
- (d) **Use of funds—**
  - (1) **Small systems—** Of the amounts made available for grants under this section, to the extent that there are sufficient applications, not less than 15 percent shall be used for grants to publicly owned [treatment works](/usc/33/1292.md?p=2-A) that serve fewer than 3,300 people.
  - (2) **Limitation on use of funds—** Of the amounts made available for grants under this section, not more than 2 percent may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Administrator.

## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title II, § 225, as added Pub. L. 117–58, div. E, title II, § 50207, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1165.)