---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1263a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1263a"
heading: "Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1263a"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Research and Related Programs"
---

# §1263a. Grants to Alaska to improve sanitation in rural and Native villages

- (a) **In general—** The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may make grants to the [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) of Alaska for the benefit of rural and Native villages in Alaska to pay the Federal share of the cost of—
  - (1) the development and construction of public water systems and wastewater systems to improve the health and sanitation conditions in the villages; and
  - (2) training, technical assistance, and educational programs relating to the operation and management of sanitation services in rural and Native villages.
- (b) **Federal share—** The Federal share of the cost of the activities described in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be 75 percent.
- (c) **Administrative expenses—** The [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) of Alaska may use an amount not to exceed 4 percent of any grant made available under this subsection[^1] for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the activities described in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (d) **Consultation with State of Alaska—** The Administrator shall consult with the [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) of Alaska on a method of prioritizing the allocation of grants under [subsection (a)](#a) according to the needs of, and relative health and sanitation conditions in, each eligible village.
- (e) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—
  - (1) $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024;
  - (2) $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2025; and
  - (3) $60,000,000 for fiscal year 2026.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–182, title III, § 303, Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1683; Pub. L. 106–457, title IX, § 903, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 1982; Pub. L. 117–58, div. E, title II, § 50212, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1172.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, and not as part of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which comprises this chapter.

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–58, § 50212(1), substituted “75 percent” for “50 percent”.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 117–58, § 50212(2), substituted “this section—” and pars. (1) to (3) for “this section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005.”

2000—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106–457 substituted “to carry out this section $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005” for “$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1997 through 2000 to carry out this section”.