# 33 U.S.C. § 1257: Mine water pollution control demonstrations

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## Section

- **Citation:** 33 U.S.C. § 1257
- **Heading:** Mine water pollution control demonstrations
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** April 17, 2026
- **Source:** Publisher's official text
- **Location:** Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS > CHAPTER 26—WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL > SUBCHAPTER I—RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS

## Text

The Administrator in cooperation with the Appalachian Regional Commission and other Federal agencies is authorized to conduct, to make grants for, or to contract 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. Such projects shall demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of various abatement techniques which will contribute substantially to effective and practical methods of acid or other mine water pollution elimination or control, and other pollution affecting water quality, including techniques that demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of using sewage sludge materials and other municipal wastes to diminish or prevent pollution affecting water quality from acid, sedimentation, or other pollutants and in such projects to restore affected lands to usefulness for forestry, agriculture, recreation, or other beneficial purposes.

( June 30, 1948, ch. 758 , title I, § 107, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2 , Oct. 18, 1972 , 86 Stat. 828 .)

## Nearby sections

- [33 U.S.C. § 1251 Congressional declaration of goals and policy](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1251.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1252 Comprehensive programs for water pollution control](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1252.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1252a Reservoir projects, water storage; modification; storage for other than for water quality, opinion of Federal agency, committee resolutions of approval; provisions inapplicable to projects with certain prescribed water quality benefits in relation to total project benefits](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1252a.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1253 Interstate cooperation and uniform laws](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1253.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1254 Research, investigations, training, and information](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1254.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1254a Research on effects of pollutants](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1254a.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1255 Grants for research and development](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1255.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1256 Grants for pollution control programs](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1256.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1257 Mine water pollution control demonstrations](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1257.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1257a State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1257a.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1258 Pollution control in the Great Lakes](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1258.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1259 Training grants and contracts](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1259.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1260 Applications; allocation](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1260.md)
- [33 U.S.C. § 1261 Scholarships](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/usc_t33_s1261.md)

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