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 PUBLIC LAW 106-457—NOV. 7, 2000 114 STAT. 1973 TITLE IV—LONG ISLAND SOUND RESTORATION SEC. 401. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the "Long Island Sound Restoration Act". SEC. 402. INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNOLOGIES. Section 119(c)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269(c)(1)) is amended by inserting ", including efforts to establish, within the process for granting watershed general permits, a system for promoting innovative methodologies and technologies that are cost-effective and consistent with the goals of the Plan" before the semicolon at the end. SEC. 403. ASSISTANCE FOR DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES. Section 119 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following: "(e) ASSISTANCE TO DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES.— "(1) ELIGIBLE COMMUNITIES.—For the purposes of this subsection, a distressed community is any community that meets affordability criteria established by the State in which the community is located, if such criteria are developed after public review and comment. "(2) PRIORITY. —In making assistance available under this section for the upgrading of wastewater treatment facilities, the Administrator may give priority to a distressed community. ". SEC. 404. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. Section 119(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (as redesignated by section 403 of this Act) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1) by striking "1991 through 2001" and inserting "2001 through 2005"; and (2) in paragraph (2) by striking "not to exceed $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 2001" and inserting "not to exceed $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2005". Long Island Sound Restoration Act. 33 USC 1251 note. TITLE V—LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN RESTORATION SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE. 5 This title may be cited as the "Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Act of 2000". SEC. 502. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN. Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Act of2000.

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