Funding from the appropriations for Federal Fiscal Years (FY) 2002, 2003, and 2004 under the Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 104(b) (3) was made available for BEIPC project work. Under the CWA, these funds were used to demonstrate how “federal, state, and local agencies can cooperatively conduct and promote the coordination and acceleration of research, investigation, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution.”