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application for financial assistance under this sub- 

 title, and make grants to such State, for fiscal 

 years 1978 and 1979 if the Administrator deter- 

 mines that the State plan continues to be eligible 

 for approval imder subsection (a) and is being im- 

 plemented by the State. 



"(3) Upon withdrawal of approval of a State 

 plan under subsection (a) , the Administrator shaE 

 withhold Federal financial and technical assist- 

 ance under this subtitle (other than such techni- 

 cal assistance as may be necessary to assist in ob- 

 taining the reinstatement of approval) untU such 

 time as such approval is reinstated. 



"(C) Existing Activities. — Nothing in this sub- 

 title shall be construed to prevent or affect any ac- 

 tivities respecting solid waste planning or manage- 

 ment which are carried out by State, regional, or 

 local authorities unless such activities are incon- 

 sistent with a State plan approved by the Admin- 

 istrator under this subtitle. 



"FEDERAL ASSISTANCE 



"Sec 4008. (a) Authorization of Federal Finan- 

 cial Assistance. — (1) There are authorized to be 

 appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 and 

 $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 for purposes of mak-. 

 ing grants to the States for the development and 

 implementation of State plans under this subtitle. 



"(2) (A) The Administrator is authorized to pro- 

 vide financial assistance to States, counties, mu- 

 nicipalities, and intermunicipal agencies and State 

 and local public solid waste management author- 

 ities for implementation of programs to provide 

 solid waste management, resource recovery, and re- 

 source conservation services and hazardous waste 

 management. Such assistance shall include assist- 

 ance for facility planning and feasibility studies; 

 expert consultation; surveys and analyses of mar- 

 ket needs; marketing of recovered resources; tech- 

 nology assessments; legal expenses; construction 

 feasibility studies; source separation projects; end 

 fiscal or economic investigations or studies; but 

 such assistance shall not include any other ele- 

 ment of construction, or any acquisition of land or 

 interest in land, or any subsidy for the price of 

 recovered resources. Agencies assisted under this 

 subsection shall consider existing solid waste man- 

 agement and hazardous waste management services 

 and facilities as well as facilities proposed for con- 

 struction. 



"(B) An applicant for financial assistance under 

 this paragraph must agree to comply with respect 

 to the project or program assisted with the appli- 

 cable requirements of section 4005 and Subtitle C 

 of this Act and apply applicable solid waste man- 

 agement practices, methods, and levels of control 

 consistent with any guidelines published pursuant 

 to section 1008 of this Act. Assistance under this 

 paragraph shall be available only for programs 

 certified by the State to be consistent with any 

 applicable State or areawide solid waste manage- 

 ment plan or program. 



"(C) There are authorized to be appropriated 

 $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 and 



1979 for purposes of this section. 



"(b) State Allotment. — ^The sums appropriated 

 in any fiscal year under subsection (a) (1) shall be 

 allotted by the Administrator among all States, in 

 the ratio that the population in each State bears 

 to the population in all of the States, except that 

 no State shall receive less than one-half of 1 per 

 centum of the sums so allotted in any fiscal year. 

 No State shall receive any grant under this section 

 during any fiscal year when its exjjenditures of 

 non-Pederal funds for other than nonrecurrent 

 expenditures for solid waste management control 

 programs will be less than its expenditures were 

 for such programs during fiscal year 1975, except 

 that such funds may be reduced by an amount 

 equal to their proportionate share of any general 

 reduction of State spending ordered by the Gov- 

 ernor or legislature of such State. No State shall 

 receive any grant for solid waste management pro- 

 grams unless the Administrator is satisfied that 

 such grant will be so used as to supplement and, 

 to the extent practicable, increase the level of 

 State, local, regional, or other non-Federal funds 

 that would in the absence of such grant be made 

 available for the maintenance of such programs. 

 >-"(c) Distribution of Federal Financial Assist- 

 ance Within the State. — The Federal assistance 

 allotted to the States under subsection (b) shall be 

 allocated by the State receiving such funds to 

 State, local, regional, and interstate authorities 

 carrying out planning and implementation of the 

 State plan. Such allocation shall be based upon the 

 responsibilities of the respective parties as deter- 

 mined pursuant to section 4006(b) . 



"(d) Technical Assistance. — ^The Administrator 

 may provide technical assistance to State and local 

 governments for purposes of developing and im- 

 plementing State plans. Technical assistance re- 

 specting resource recovery and conservation may 

 be provided through resource recovery and conser- 

 vation panels, established in the Environmental 

 Protection Agency under subtitle B, to assist the 

 State and local governments with respect to par- 

 ticular resource recovery and conservation projects 

 under consideration and to evaluate their effect on 

 the State plan. 



"(e) Special Communities. — (1) The Adminis- 

 trator, in cooperation with State and local ofBcials, 

 shall identify communities within the United 

 States (A) having a population of less than twenty- 

 five thousand persons, (B) having solid waste dis- 

 posal facilities in which more than 75 per 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 Administrator $2,500,000 for each of the fiscal 

 years 1978 and 1979 to make grants 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 imder 

 paragraph (1). Not more than one community In 

 any State shall be eligible for grants under this 



