---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1257a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1257a"
heading: "State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1257a"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Research and Related Programs"
---

# §1257a. State demonstration programs for cleanup of abandoned mines for use as waste disposal sites; authorization of appropriations


The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to make grants to [States](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) to undertake a demonstration program for the cleanup of [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3)-owned abandoned mines which can be used as hazardous waste disposal sites. The [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) shall pay 10 per centum of project costs. At a minimum, the Administrator shall undertake projects under such program in the [States](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) of Ohio, Illinois, and West Virginia. There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 per fiscal year for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1982, September 30, 1983, and September 30, 1984, to carry out this section. Such projects shall be undertaken in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–483, § 12, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2363.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.