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post. p. 1780, 1804.

PUBLIC LAW 91-512-OCT. 26, 1970

[84 STAT.

disposal areas and studies of the effect and relationship of solid waste disposal jjractices on areas adjacent to waste disposal sites, "(3) developing proposals for projects to be carried out pursuant to section 208 of this Act, or "(4) planning programs for the removal and processing of abandoned motor vehicle hulks. " (b) Grants pursuant to this section may be made upon application therefor which— " (1) designates or establishes a single agency (which may be an. interdepartmental agency) as the sole agency for carrying out the purposes of this section for the area involved; "(2) indicates the manner in which provision will be made to assure full consideration of all aspects of planning essential to areawide planning for proper and effective solid wast« disposal consistent with the protection of the public health and welfare, including such factors as population growth, urban and metropolitan development, land use planning, water pollution control, air pollution control, and the feasibility of regional disposal and resource recovery programs; " (3) sets forth plans for expenditure of such grant, which plans provide reasonable assurance of carrying out the purposes of this section; " (4) provides for submission of such reports of the activities of the agency in carrying out the purposes of this section, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary for carrying out the purposes of this section and for keeping such records and affording such access thereto as he may find necessary; and "(5) provides for such fiscal-control and fund-accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for funds paid to the agency under this section. " (c) The Secretary shall make a grant under this section only if he finds that there is satisfactory assurance that the planning of solid waste disposal will be coordinated, so far as practicable, with and not duplicate other related State, interstate, regional, and local planning activities, including those financed in part with funds pursuant to section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954. ° "GRANTS FOR RESOURCE RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND IMPROVED SOLID W^ASTE

DISPOSAL FACILITIES

Federal share,

"SEC. 208. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants pursuant to this section to any State, municipal, or interstate or intermunicipal agency for the demonstration of resource recovery systems or for the construction of new or improved solid waste disposal facilities. " (b)(1) Any grant under this section for the demonstration of a resource recovery system may be made only if it (A) is consistent with any plans which meet the requirements of section 207(b)(2) of this Act; (B) is consistent with the guidelines recommended pursuant to section 209 of this Act; (C) is designed to provide areawide resource recovery systems consistent with the purposes of this Act, as determined by the Secretary, pursuant to regulations promulgated under subsection (d) of this section; and (D) provides an equitable system for distributing the costs associated with construction, operation, and maintenance of any resource recovery system among the users of such system. "(£) The Federal share for any project to which paragraph (1) applies shall not be more than 75 percent. "(c)(1) A grant under this section for the construction of a new or improved solid waste disposal facility may be made only if—

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