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Appropriation.

PUBLIC LAW 91-224-APR. 3, 1970

[84 STAT.

that is needed for the project, or personal property or services, the value of which shall be determined by the Secretary; and "(2) that the State or interstate agency shall provide legal and practical protection to the project area to insure against any activities which will cause future acid or other mine water pollution. " (d) There is authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section, which sum shall be available until expended. No more than 25 per centum of the total funds available under this section in any one year shall be granted to any one State. "POLLUTION CONTROL IN GREAT LAKES

Demonstration p r o j e c t s. Federal aid to States.

Condition.

Appropriation.

"SEC. 15. (a) The Secretary, in cooperation with other Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities is authorized to enter into agreements with any State, political subdivision, interstate agency, or other public agency, or combination thereof, to carry out one or more projects to demonstrate new methods and techniques and to develop preliminary plans for the elimination or control of pollution, within all or any part of the watersheds of the Great Lakes. Such projects shall demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of removal of pollutants and prevention of any polluting matter from entering into the Great Lakes in the future and other abatement and remedial techniques which will contribute substantially to effective and practical methods of water pollution elimination or control. " (b) Federal participation in such projects shall be subject to the condition that the State, political subdivision, interstate agency, or other public agency, or combination thereof, shall pay not less than 25 per centum of the actual project costs, which payment may be in any form, including, but not limited to, land or interests therein that is needed for the project, and personal property or services the value of which shall be determined by the Secretary. " (c) There is authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section, which sum shall be available until expended. "TRAINING GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

"SEC. 16. The Secretary is authorized to make grants to or contracts with institutions of higher education, or combinations of such institutions, to assist them in planning, developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or projects for the preparation of undergraduate students to enter an occupation which involves the design, operation, and maintenance of treatment works, and other facilities whose purpose is water quality control. Such grants or contracts may include payment of all or part of the cost of programs or projects such as— " (A) planning for the development or expansion of programs or projects for training persons in the operation and maintenance of treatment works; " ^ B) training and retraining of faculty members; " (C) conduct of short-term or regular session institutes for study by persons engaged in, or preparing to engage in, the preparation of students preparing to enter an occupation involving the operation and maintenance of treatment works; " (D) carrying out innovative and experimental programs of cooperative education involving alternate periods of full-time or part-time academic study at the institution and periods of fulltime or part-time employment involving the operation and maintenance of treatment works; and

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