Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize grants for upgrading or converting small-capacity cesspools in Hawaii.
The bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize grants for upgrading or converting small-capacity cesspools in Hawaii. The Federal share of the cost for these activities is set at 75 percent. Priority is given to projects that address cesspools posing the greatest risk to human and environmental health. The grants can be used for converting cesspools to individual wastewater systems, connecting residences to treatment works, and converting communities to decentralized wastewater systems.
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