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 104 STAT. 3008 PUBLIC LAW 101-596 —NOV. 16, 1990 "(5) Upon approval of the plan, such plan shall be deemed to be an approved management program for the purposes of section 319(h) of this Act and such plan shall be deemed to be an approved comprehensive conservation and management plan pursuant to section 320 of this Act. "(f) GRANT ASSISTANCE.— (1) The Administrator may, in consultation with the Management Conference, make grants to State, interstate, and regional water pollution control agencies, and public or nonprofit agencies, institutions, and organizations. "(2) Grants under this subsection shall be made for assisting research, surveys, studies, and modeling and technical and supporting work necessary for the development of the Plan and for retaining expert consultants in support of litigation undertaken by the State of New York and the State of Vermont to compel cleanup or obtain cleanup damage costs from persons responsible for pollution of Lake Champlain. "(3) The amount of grants to any person under this subsection for a fiscal year shall not exceed 75 per centum of the costs of such research, survey, study and work and shall be made available on the condition that non-Federal share of such costs are provided from non-Federal sources. "(4) The Administrator may establish such requirements for the administration of grants as he determines to be appropriate. "(g) DEFINITION.— For the purposes of this section, the term 'Lake Champlain drainage basin' means all or part of Clinton, Franklin, Warren, Essex, and Washington counties in the State of New York and all or part of Franklin, Grand Isle, Chittenden, Addison, Rutland, Lamoille, Orange, Washington, Orleans, and Caledonia counties in Vermont, that contain all of the streams, rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water, including wetlands, that drain into Lake Champlain. "(h) STATUTORY INTERPRETATION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to affect the jurisdiction or powers of— "(1) any department or agency of the Federal Government or any State government; or "(2) any international organization or entity related to Lake Champlain created by treaty or memorandum to which the United States is a signatory. "(i) AUTHORIZATION.—T here are authorized to be appropriated to the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out this section $2,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995.". FEDERAL PROGRAM COORDINATION 33 USC 1270 SEC. 304. (a) DESIGNATION OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN AS A SPECIAL note. PROJECT AREA UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PRO- GRAM. — (1) IN GENERAL. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Lake Champlain basin, as defined under section 120(h) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, shall be designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as a special project area under the Agricultural Conservation Program established under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C 590h(b)). (2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REIMBURSEMENT. —To carry out the purposes of this subsection, the technical assistance reimbursement from the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation

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