Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1370

 90 STAT. 2838

PUBLIC LAW 94-580—OCT. 21, 1976 "(8) the lesal constraints and institutional barriers to the acquisition of land needed for solid waste management, including land for facilities and disposal sites; "(9) in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, agricultural waste management problems and practices, the extent of reuse and recovery of resources in such wasteSj the prospects for improvement, Federal, State, and local regulations governing such practices, and the economic, social, and environmental consequences of such practices; and "(10) in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, mining waste management problems, and practices, including an assessment of existing authorities, technologies, and economics, and the environmental and public health consequences o.f such practices. "(b) DEMONSTRATioiir.—The Administrator is also authorized to cany out demonstration projects to test and demonstrate methods and techniques developed pursuant to subsection (a). "(c) APPLICATION OF OTHER SECTIONS.—Section 8001(b) and, (c)

shall be applicable to investigations, studies, and projects carried out under this section. "GRANTS FOR RESOURCE RECOVERY SYSTEMS AND IMPROVED SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES

42 USC 6986.

"SEC. 8006. (a) AUTHORITY.—The Administrator 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) CONDITIONS.—(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 subtitle D of this Act; (B) is consistent with the guidelines recommended pursuant to section 1008 of this Act; (C) is designed to provide areawide resource recovery systems consistent with the purposes of this Act, as determined by the Administrator, 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. "(2) The Federal share for any project to which paragraph (1) applies shall not be more than 75 percent. "(c) LIMITATIONS.—(1) A grant under this section for the construction of a new or improved solid waste disposal facility may be made only if— " (A) a State or interstate plan for solid waste disposal has been adopted which applies to the area involved, and the facility to be constructed (i) is consistent with such plan, (ii) is included in a comprehensive plan for the area involved which is satisfactory to the Administrator for the purposes of this Act, and (iii) is consistent with the guidelines recommended under section 1008, and " (B) the project advances the state of the art by applying new and improved techniques in reducing the environmental impact of solid waste disposal, in achieving recovery of energy or resources, or in recycling useful materials.

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