Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 91.djvu/1429

 PUBLIC LAW 95-190—NOV. 16, 1977

91 STAT. 1395

TRAINING

SEC. 4. Section 1442 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended Grants, by section 3(b) of this Act, is further amended by inserting the fol- Ante, p. 1394. lowing new subsection after subsection (c): "(d) The Administrator shall— " (1) provide training for, and make grants for training (including postgraduate training) of (A) personnel of State agencies which have primary enforcement responsibility and of agencies or units of local government to which enforcement responsibilities ' have been delegated by the State, and (B) personnel who manage or operate public water systems, and "(2) make grants for postgraduate training of individuals (including grants to educational institutions for traineeships) for purposes of qualifying such individuals to work as personnel referred to in paragraph (1). Reasonable fees may be charged for training provided under para- Fees, graph (1)(B) to persons other than personnel of State or local agencies but such training shall be provided to personnel of State or local agencies without charge.". GRANTS FOR STATE PROGRAMS

SEC. 5. (a) Section 1443(a) of the Public Health Service Act is amended by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7) and by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraphs: " (5) The prohibition contained in the last sentence of paragraph (2) may be waived by the Administrator with respect to a grant to a State through fiscal year 1979 but such prohibition may only be waived if, in the judgment of the Administrator— "(A) the State is making a diligent effort to assume and maintain primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems within the State; "(B) the State has made significant progress toward assuming and maintaining such primary enforcement responsibility; and "(C) there is reason to believe the State will assume such primary enforcement responsibility by October 1, 1979. The amount of any grant awarded for the fiscal years 1978 and 1979 pursuant to a waiver under this paragraph may not exceed 75 per centum of the allotment which the State would have received for such fiscal year if it had assumed and maintained such primary enforcement responsibility. The remaining 25 per centum of the amount allotted to such State for such fiscal year shall be retained by the Administrator, and the Administrator may award such amount to such State at such time as the State assumes such responsibility before the beginning of fiscal year 1980. At the beginning of each fiscal years 1979 and 1980 the amounts retained by the Administrator for any preceding fiscal year and not awarded by the beginning of fiscal year 1979 or 1980 to the States to which such amounts were originally allotted may be removed from the original allotment and reallotted for fiscal year 1979 or 1980 (as the case ma;;^ be) to States which have assumed primary enforcement responsibility by the beginning of such fiscal year. "(6) The Administrator shall notify the State of the approval or disapproval of any application for a grant under this section— " (A) within ninety days after receipt of such application, or "(B) not later than the first day of the fiscal year for which the grant application is made, whichever is later.".

Prohibition, waiver. Ante, p. 1393.

Allotment limitations.

Applications, notification to States.

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