Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1351

 PUBLIC LAW 94^580—OCT. 21, 1976

9 0 STAT. 2819

the A d m i n i s t r a to r is satisfied that such g r a n t will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the level of State, local, regional, o r other non-Federal funds that would i n the absence of such g r a n t be made available for the maintenance of such programs. " (c) DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL F I N A N C I A L ASSISTANCE W I T H I N THE

STATE.—The Federal assistance allotted to the States under subsection (b) shall be allocated by the State receiving sucji funds to State, local, regional, and interstate authorities carrying out p l a n n i n g and implementation of the State plan. Such allocation shall be based upon the responsibilities of the respective parties as determined pursuant to section 4006(b). "(d)

T E C H N I C A L ASSISTANCE.—The

Administrator

may

provide

technical assistance to State and local governments for purposes of developing and implementing State plans. Technical assistance respecting resource recovery and conservation may be provided through resource recovery and conservation panels, established i n the Environmental Protection Agency under subtitle B, to assist the State ^»*«» p- 2804. and local governments with respect to part i c u l a r resource recovery and conservation projects under consideration and to evaluate their effect on the State plan. " (e) SPECIAL COMMUNITIES. — (1) The A d m i n i s t r a to r, in coopera-

tion with State and local officials, shall identify communities within the United States (A) having a population of less than twenty-five thousand persons, (B) h a v i n g solid waste disposal facilities i n which more than 75 p e r centum of the solid waste disposal of is from areas outside the jurisdiction of the communities, and (C) which have serious environmental problems resulting from the disposal of such solid waste. " (2) There is authorized to be appropriated to the A d m i n i s t r a to r Appropriation $2,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 and 1979 to make g r a n t s authorization, to be used for the conversion, improvement, or consolidation of existing solid waste disposal facilities, or for the construction of new solid waste disposal facilities, or for both, within communities identified under paragraph (1). Not more than one community in any State shall be eligible for g r a n t s under this paragraph and not more than one project in any State shall be eligible for such grants. " (3) G r a n t s under this subsection shall be made only to projects which the Administrator determines will be consistent with a n applicable State plan approved under this subtitle and which will assist in c a r r y i n g out such plan. RURAL ((.

COMMUNITIES ASSISTANCE

" SEC. 4009. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall make g r a n t s to States to provide assistance to municipalities with a population of five thousand or less, or counties with a population of ten thousand o r less or less than twenty persons p e r square mile and not within a metropolitan area, for solid waste management facilities (including equipment) necessary to meet the requirements of section 4005 of this Act or restrictions on open b u r n i n g or other requirements arising under the Clean A i r Act o r the Federal W a t e r Pollution Control Act. Such assistance shall only be available— " (1) to any municipality or county which could not feasibly be included in a solid waste management system o r facility serving an urbanized, multijurisdictional area because of its distance from such systems;

42 USC 6949.

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