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PUBLIC LAW 92-500-OCT. 18, 1972

[86 STAT.

"(g) Any sums allotted under subsection (b) in any fiscal year which are not paid shall be reallotted by the Administrator in accordance with regulations promulgated by him. 'MINE WATER POLLUTION CONTROL DEMONSTRATIONS

79 Stat. 21; 81 Stat. 266; 83 Stat. 215. 40 USC app, 403. 79 Stat. 5; 85 Stat. 173. 40 USC app.

Federal participation, conditions.

Appropriation.

"SEC. 107. (a) The Administrator in cooperation with the Appalachian Kegional Commission and other Federal agencies is authorized to conduct, to make grants for, or to contract for, projects to demonstrate comprehensive approaches to the elimination or control of acid or other mine water pollution resulting from active or abandoned mining operations and other environmental pollution affecting water quality within all or part of a watershed or river basin, including siltation from surface mining. Such projects shall demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of various abatement techniques which will contribute substantially to effective and practical methods of acid or other mine water pollution elimination or control, and other pollution affecting water quality, including techniques that demonstrate the engineering and economic feasibility and practicality of using sewage ^udge materials and other municipal wastes to diminish or prevent pollution affecting water quality from acid, sedimentation, or other pollutants and in such projects to restore affected lands to usefulness for forestry, agricultiire, recreation, or other beneficial purposes. "(b) Prior to undertaking any demonstration project under this section in the Appalachian region (as defined in section 403 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended), the Appalachian Rej^ional Commission shall determine that such demonstration project is consistent with the objectives of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended. 'H^c) The Administrator, in selecting watersheds for the purposes of this section, shall be satisfied that the project area will not be affected adversely by the influx of acid or other mine water pollution from nearby sources. "(d) Federal participation in such projects shall be subject to the conditions— "(1) that the State shall acquire any land or interests therein necessary for such project; and " (2) that the State 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. "(e) There is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this section, which sum shall be available until expended. " P O L L U T I O N CONTROL I N GREAT LAKES

Federal-State cooperation.

"SEC. 108. (a) The Administrator, 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 conibination 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 pol-. luting matter from entering into the Great Lakes in the future and other reduction and remedial techniques which will contribute substantially to effective and practical methods of pollution prevention, reduction, or elimination.

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