---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1276"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1276"
heading: "Enhanced aquifer use and recharge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1276"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Research and Related Programs"
---

# §1276. Enhanced aquifer use and recharge

- (a) **In general—** Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator shall provide funding to carry out groundwater research on enhanced aquifer use and recharge in support of sole-source aquifers, of which—
  - (1) not less than 50 percent shall be used to provide 1 grant to a [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3), unit of local government, or Indian Tribe to carry out activities that would directly support that research; and
  - (2) the remainder shall be provided to 1 appropriate research center.
- (b) **Coordination—** As a condition of accepting funds under [subsection (a)](#a), the [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3), unit of local government, or Indian Tribe and the appropriate research center that receive funds under that subsection shall establish a formal research relationship for the purpose of coordinating efforts under this section.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2026.

## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, § 124, as added Pub. L. 117–58, div. E, title II, § 50222, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1181.)