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economic feasibility of the methods or techniques investigated or demonstrated. The final report shall include EPA comment when required by the grants officer. Prior to the end of the project period, one reproducible copy suitable for printing and such other copies as may be stipulated in the grant agreement shall be transmitted to the grants officer.

§ 40.165 Continuation grants.

To be eligible for a continuation grant within the approved project period, the grantee must:

(a) Have demonstrated satisfactory performance during all previous budget periods; and

(b) Submit no later than 90 days prior to the end of the budget period a continuation application which includes a detailed summary progress report, an estimated financial statement for the current budget period, a budget for the new budget period; and an updated work plan revised to account for actual progress accomplished during the current budget period.

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of training grants by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Applicability and scope.

This part establishes mandatory pollcies and procedures for all EPA training grants. The provisions of this part supplement the EPA general grant regulations and procedures (pt. 30 of this chapter). Accordingly, all EPA training grants are awarded subject to the EPA general grant regulations and procedures (pt. 30 of this chapter) and to the applicable provisions of this part 45.

§ 45.102 Authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to award training grants under the following statutes:

(a) Section 103 of the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1857b).

(b) Sections 104, 109, 110, and 111 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1254, 1259, 1260, 1261).

(c) Sections 301 and 314 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 241 and 246).

(d) Sections 204 and 210 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3253 and 3254d).

(e) Section 23 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act as amended by Public Law 92-516 (7 U.S.C. 136u).

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Grants awarded under this part are intended for occupational and professional training and to develop careeroriented personnel qualified to work in pollution abatement and control.

Training grants will be awarded:

(a) To assist in planning, implementing, and improving environmental training programs;

(b) To increase the number of adequately trained pollution control and abatement personnel;

(c) To upgrade the level of training among State and local environmental control personnel; and

(d) To bring new people into the environmental control field.

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Financial assistance to students enrolled in a training program, limited to tuition and fees only.

§ 45.105-3 Stipend.

Supplemental financial assistance to students who are recipients of scholarships.

§ 45.105-4 Technician training.

Training of individuals, at the post high school, junior college, and baccalaureate levels, in the practical technical details and special techniques of occupations in the environmental areas.

§ 45.115 Eligibility.

Training grants may be awarded to any responsible applicant as follows:

(a) Clean Air Act.-Section 103(b) (3).—Air pollution control agencies, public and nonprofit private agencies, institutions, organizations, and to individuals. No grant may be made under this act to any private profitmaking organization.

(b) Federal Water Pollution Control Act.-(1) Section 104(b) (3).—State water pollution control agencies, interstate agencies, other public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, organizations, and to individuals.

(2) Section 104(g) (3) (A).—Public or private agencies and institutions, and to individuals.

(3) Section 104(g) (1) and 104(g) (3) (C). State and interstate agencies, municipalities, educational institutions, and other organizations and to individuals.

(4) Section 109, 110, and 111.-Institutions of higher education or combinations of such institutions.

(c) Solid Waste Disposal Act.-(1) Section 204(b) (3).—Public or private agencies and institutions and individuals.

(2) Section 210(a).-State or interstate agencies, municipalities, educational institutions, and other organizations.

(d) Public Health Service Act.Grants will be made only to a university, hospital, laboratory, other public and private institutions, and to individuals. No grant may be made under this Act to any profit-making organization.

(e) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.-(1) Section 23

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§ 45.125 Application requirements. Applications shall be submitted in accordance with part 30, subpart B of this chapter.

§ 45.130 Evaluation of applications.

Periodically, training grant applications will be evaluated for program relevance, and will compete for available funds according to priorities established by EPA. Evaluations shall be conducted by EPA staff with advisory assistance as appropriate. Consideration will be given to the following criteria:

(a) Relevance of proposal to agency objectives, priorities, achievement of national goals and technical merit;

(b) Competency of the proposed staff in relation to the type of project involved;

(c) Feasibility of the proposal; (d) Adequacy of applicant's resources available for the project;

(e) Amount of grant funds necessary for the completion of the project;

(f) In addition, grants awarded under section 104(g) (1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, shall be subject to the following criteria:

(1) Assessment of need for training in a State or municipality based on such problems as violation of discharge permit conditions, and faulty or improper operation and/or maintenance of existing plants.

(2) Wastewater treatment works construction grant activities in the State. § 45.135 Supplemental grant

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In addition to the EPA general grant conditions (appendix A to subchapter B of this title), each training grant shall be subject to the following conditions:

(a) The grantee shall not require the performance of personal services by individuals receiving training as a condition for assistance.

(b) Recipients of assistance under training grants shall be entitled to the normal student holidays observed by an academic institution, or the holiday and vacation schedule applicable to all trainees at a nonacademic institution.

(c) Recipients of assistance under training grants must be citizens of the United States, its territories, or possessions, or lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.

(d) Generally training grants will provide for student support only through

scholarships. Stipends are permitted when, in the judgment of the grantee, they are needed to attract qualified students provided that not more than $20,000 of amounts awarded for a budget period may be used for such stipends: And further provided, That no annual stipend may be less than $1,000 or more than $3,000 with payment prorated monthly.

(e) Training grants awarded under section 111 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act will be subject to the following condition: Grantees must obtain the following agreement in writing from persons awarded scholarships under section 111 for undergraduate study of the operation and maintenance of treatment works:

I agree to enter and remain in an occupation involving the design, operation, or maintenance of waste treatment works for a period of 2 years alter the satisfactory completion of my studies under this program. I understand that if I fail to perform this obligation I may be required to repay the amount of my scholarship.

The grantee agrees to take such action as may reasonably be required to enforce the foregoing agreement. Any sums received by the grantee shall be credited or paid to the United States in accordance with § 30.603 of this chapter.

§ 45.140 Project period.

ect period and shall set forth the extent to which the project objectives have been achieved.

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Report of expenditures.

No later than 90 days following the end of each budget period the grantee must submit a report of project expenditures. Final report of expenditures must reflect cumulative project expenditures. § 45.150-4 Equipment report.

No later than 90 days following the end of the project period the grantee must submit a listing of all items of equipment acquired with grant funds with an acquisition cost of $300 or more and having a useful life of more than 1 year.

§ 45.155 Continuation grant.

To be eligible for a continuation grant within the approved project period, the grantee must:

(a) Have demonstrated satisfactory performance during all previous budget periods.

(b) Submit a continuation application including an interim progress report and an estimated report of expenditures. Subpart B-Manpower Forecasting [Reserved]

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The project period for a training grant may not exceed 3 years.

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(a) Allocation and allowability of costs will be determined in accordance with § 30.701 of this chapter.

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(b) Costs incurred for the purchase of land or the construction of buildings are not allowable.

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Benefits.

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Application requirements.

Evaluation of application.

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award of fellowships by the Environmental Protection Agency.

§ 46.101

Applicability and scope.

This part establishes mandatory policies and procedures for all EPA fellowships.

§ 46.102 Authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to grant fellowship awards under the following statutes:

(a) Section 103(b) (6) of the Clean Air Act as amended (42 U.S.C. 1857b(b) (6)).

(b) Sections 104(b) (5) and 104(g) (3) (B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1254(b) (5) and 1254(g) (3) (B)).

§ 46.103 Objectives.

Fellowships awarded under this part are intended to encourage and promote the specialized training of individuals as practitioners in pollution abatement and control.

§ 46.104 Type of fellowships.

(a) Agency fellowships are awarded to present or prospective employees of a regional, State, or local environmental pollution control or regulatory agency to provide training for and upgrading of personnel in the areas of pollution abatement and control.

(b) Special fellowships are awarded to individuals for education and training in pollution control science, engineering, and technology and in specialty areas supportive of pollution abatement and control efforts. § 46.105

Definitions.

§ 46.105-1 Full-time fellow.

An individual duly enrolled in an educational program directly relating to pollution abatement and control, and taking a minimum of 12 semester or quarter hours for credit or an academic workload otherwise defined by the institution as a full-time curriculum. The fellow need not be pursuing an advanced degree.

§ 46.105-2 Part-time fellow.

An individual duly enrolled in an educational program directly relating to pollution abatement and control, and taking not less than 3 credit hours per academic term. The fellow need not be pursuing an advanced degree.

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(a) Recipients of assistance under this part shall be entitled to tuition and fees, an allowance for books and supplies up to a maximum of $250, and the normal student holidays observed by an academic institution.

(b) Agency fellows attending fulltime may, on the basis of need, set forth in the application, receive an annual stipend up to $6,500 from EPA funds.

(c) Agency fellows attending parttime may receive a small stipend when justified by needs related to the purpose of the fellowship.

(d) Special fellows may receive not more than $3,600 total annual amount from EPA for full-time attendance payable on a pro-rata monthly basis. § 46.115

Eligibility.

All applicants for fellowships under this part must be (a) citizens of the United States, its territories, or possessions, or lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, and (b) accepted by an accredited educational institution for full or part-time enrollment for academic credit in an educational program which directly relates to pollution apatement and control. Applicants for agency fellowships must be present or prospective employees of a regional, State, or local environmental pollution control or regulatory agency. Present employees must be recommended for a fellowship by their employing agency. Priority in award of fellowships to prospective agency employees will be given to those applicants who provide evidence that they have explored, in direct agency contact, opportunities for agency employment. Such applicants are encouraged to obtain written appraisal of their employment potential and probability of actual employment assuming successful completion of the training.

§ 46.120 Application requirements.

All applications for EPA fellowships shall be submitted to the Grants Administration Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460, upon such forms as the Administrator shall prescribe and shall include copies

involving the use of warmblooded animals shall include a written assurance that the applicant has registered with the Department of Agriculture and is in compliance with the rules, regulations, and standards enunciated in the Animal Welfare Act, Public Law 89-544, as amended.

(c) Notice of research project (NRP).— Each application for research must include a summary (NRP) of proposed work (200 words or less) incorporating objectives, approach and current plans and/or progress. Upon approval of an application, summaries are forwarded to the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange. Summaries of work in progress are exchanged with government and private agencies supporting research and are forwarded to investigators who request such information.

(d) Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (1) All applications for grants under section 105(a) must have been approved by the appropriate State water pollution control agency or agencies.

(2) All applications for grants under section 107, where the proposed project will be located in the Appalachian region, shall have been coordinated with the Appalachian Regional Commission for determination that such demonstration project is consistent with the objectives of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended.

§ 40.140 Criteria for award.

In determining the desirability and extent of funding for a project and the relative merit of an application, consideration will be given to the following criteria:

§ 40.140-1 All applications.

(a) The relevancy of the proposed project to the objectives of the EPA research and demonstration program;

(b) The availability of funds within EPA;

(c) The technical feasibility of the project;

(d) The seriousness, extent, and urgency of the environmental problems toward which the project is directed;

(e) The anticipated public benefits to be derived from the project in relation to the costs of the project;

(f) The competency of the applicant's staff and the adequacy of the applicant's facilities and available resources;

(g) The degree to which the project can be expected to produce results that

will have general application to pollution control problems nationwide;

(h) Whether the project is consistent with existing plans or ongoing planning for the project area at the State, regional, and local levels;

(i) The existence and extent of local public support for the project;

(j) Whether the proposed project is environmentally sound;

(k) Proposed cost sharing.

§ 40.140-2 Solid Waste Disposal Act. In addition, consideration will be given to the following criteria:

(a) All applications.—(1) Whether the project will demonstrate and implement positive improvements in solid waste management;

(2) The extent to which the project emphasizes innovative financial and institutional arrangements for creation of a self-financed solid waste management system;

(3) The extent to which the use of Federal funds for capital expenditures is limited;

(4) The level of progress of the State solid waste management plan applicable to the applicant (e.g., progressing satisfactorily, completed and accepted by EPA, adopted by the State);

(5) Whether the project can be completed in a shorter time span than similar proposed projects.

(b) Applications for grants under section 208.-(1) Whether the application includes provision for the equitable distribution among users of all costs and revenues associated with the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the proposed project;

(2) The financial participation and support of each participating unit of government;

(3) The soundness of the overall technical design and the system's component unit process;

(4) The economic viability of the system including analyses of available markets and purchase commitments for salable commodities;

(5) The experience and expertise of the operational and management personnel;

(6) Whether it is consistent with any guidelines for solid waste recovery collection, separation, and disposal systems which the Administrator may publish pursuant to section 208 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act;

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