---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 35.688"
title: "40"
number: "35.688"
heading: "Award limitations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/35.688"
---

# §35.688. Award limitations.

- (a) **Initial grants.** The Regional Administrator will not make an initial award unless the Tribe or each member of the Intertribal Consortium has:
  - (1) Met the requirements of [§ 35.676](/cfr/40/35.676.md) (Eligible recipients); and
  - (2) Established an approved underground water source protection program or agrees to establish an approvable program within four years of the initial award.
- (b) **Subsequent grants.** The Regional Administrator will not make a subsequent grant, after the initial award, unless the Tribe can demonstrate reasonable progress towards assuming primary enforcement responsibility within the four-year period after initial award. After the four-year period expires, the Regional Administrator shall not award [section 1443(b)](/cfr/40/1443.md?p=b) funds to an Indian Tribe unless the Tribe has assumed primary enforcement responsibility for the underground water source protection program.

## Notes

### 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); Pub. L. 105-276, 112 Stat. 2461, 2499 (1988).

### Source

Source: 66 FR 3795, Jan. 16, 2001, 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.