Cost Sharing

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006789",
  "term": "Cost Sharing",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A publicly financed program through which society, as the beneficiary of environment protection, shares part of the cost of pollution control with those who must actually install the controls.\n\n2. A publicly financed program through which society, as a beneficiary of environmental protection, shares part of the cost of pollution control with those who must actually install the controls. In Superfund, for example, the government may pay part of the cost of a cleanup action with those responsible for the pollution paying the major share.\n\n3. The portion of allowable project costs that a recipient contributes toward completing its project (i.e., non Federal share, matching share). (40 CFR Part 30)\n\n4. Explicit arrangement under which the contractor bears some of the burden of reasonable, allocable, and allowable contract cost.",
  "subject": "Laws, regulations and executive orders",
  "references": [
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Grants and Debarment Glossary",
    "48 CFR 2.101 (CFR 2019)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/cost-sharing/"
}