---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 35.2204"
title: "40"
number: "35.2204"
heading: "Project changes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/35.2204"
---

# §35.2204. Project changes.

- (a) Minor changes in the project work that are consistent with the objectives of the project and within the scope of the grant agreement do not require the execution of a formal grant amendment before the grantee's implementation of the change. However, the amount of the funding provided by the grant agreement may only be increased by a formal grant amendment.
- (b) The grantee must receive from the Regional Administrator a formal grant amendment before implementing changes which:
  - (1) Alter the project performance standards;
  - (2) Alter the type of wastewater treatment provided by the project;
  - (3) Significantly delay or accelerate the project schedule;
  - (4) Substantially alter the facilities plan, design drawings and specifications, or the location, size, capacity, or quality of any major part of the project; or
  - (5) **Otherwise require a formal grant amendment under part 30 of this subchapter.**
- (c) Notwithstanding [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, changes to Step 7 projects cannot increase the amount of EPA assistance established at the time of the grant amendment.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 6234, Feb. 17, 1984, as amended at 55 FR 27097, June 29, 1990]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 101(e), 109(b), 201 through 205, 207, 208(d), 210 through 212, 215 through 219, 304(d)(3), 313, 501, 502, 511 and 516(b) of the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 6234, Feb. 17, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.; 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 13101 et seq.; Pub. L. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321-299 (1996); Pub. L. 105-65, 111 Stat. 1344, 1373 (1997), 2 CFR 200.

### Amendments

[49 FR 6234, Feb. 17, 1984, as amended at 55 FR 27097, June 29, 1990]