---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1299"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1299"
heading: "State certification of projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1299"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Grants for Construction of Treatment Works"
---

# §1299. State certification of projects


Whenever the Governor of a [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) which has been delegated sufficient authority to administer the [construction](/usc/33/1292.md?p=1) grant program under this subchapter in that [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) certifies to the Administrator that a grant application meets applicable requirements of Federal and [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) law for assistance under this subchapter, the Administrator shall approve or disapprove such application within 45 days of the date of receipt of such application. If the Administrator does not approve or disapprove such application within 45 days of receipt, the application shall be deemed approved. If the Administrator disapproves such application the Administrator shall [state](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) in writing the reasons for such disapproval. Any grant approved or deemed approved under this section shall be subject to amounts provided in appropriation Acts.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title II, § 219, as added Pub. L. 97–117, § 20, Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1631.)