Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 88 Part 2.djvu/355

 88 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 93-523-DEC. 16, 1974

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" ( III) as appropriate, propose revocations of specific variances or i^ropose revised schedules or other requirements for specific public Avater systems granted variances, or both, "(ii) The Administrator shall provide reasonable notice and hea^n"^''"'^ public hearing on the provisions of each notice given pursuant to clause (i) of this subparagraph. After a hearing on a notice pursuant to such clause, the Administrator shall (I) rescind the finding for which the notice was given and promptly notify the State of such rescission, or ( II) promulgate (with such modifications as he deems appropriate) such variance revocations and revised schedules or other requirements proposed in such notice as he deems appropriate. Not later than 180 days after the date a notice is given pursuant to clause (i) of this subparagraph, the Administrator shall complete the hearing on the notice and take the action required by the preceding sentence. "(iii) If a State is notified under clause (i) of this subparagraph of a finding of the Administrator made with respect to a variance granted a public water system within that State or to a schedule or other requirement for a variance and if, before a revocation of such variance or a revision of such schedule or other requirement promulgated by the Administrator takes effect, the State takes corrective action with respect to such variance or schedule or other requirement which the Administrator determines makes his finding inapplicable to such variance or schedule or other requirement, the Administrator shall rescind the application of his finding to that variance or schedule or other requirement. No variance revocation or revised schedule or other requirement may take effect before the expiration of 90 days following the date of the notice in which the revocation or revised schedule or other requirement was proposed. "(2) If a State does not have primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems, the Administrator shall have the same authority to grant variances in such State as the State would have under paragraph (1) if it had primary enforcement responsibility. "'(8) The Administrator may grant a variance from any treatment technique requirement of a national primary drinking water regulation upon a showing by any person that an alternative treatment technique not included in such requirement is at least as efficient in lowering the level of the contaminant with respect to which such requirement was prescribed. A variance under this paragraph shall be conditioned on the use of the alternativ'c treatment technique which is the basis of the variance. " (b) Any schedule or other requirement on which a variance granted under paragraph (1)(B) or (2) of subsection (a) is conditioned may be enforced under section 1414 as if such schedule or other requirement was part of a national primary drinking water regulation. "(c) If an application for a variance under subsection (a) is made, Applications for the State receiving the application or the Administrator, as the case v a r i a n c e s. may be, shall act upon such application within a reasonable period (as determined under regulations prescribed by the Administrator) after the date of its submission. 'Treatment •'(d) For purposes of this section, the term 'treatment technique technique rerequirement means a requirement m a national primary drinking quirement." water regulation which specifies for a contaminant (in accordance with section 1401(1)(C) (ii)) each treatment technique known to the Administrator which leads to a reduction in the level of such contaminant sufficient to satisfy the requirements of section 1412(b)(3).

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