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paragraph and not more than one project in any 

 State shall be eligible for such grants. 



"(3) Grants under this subsection shall be made 

 only to projects which the Administrator deter- 

 mines will be consistent with an applicable State 

 plan approved under this subtitle and which will 

 assist in carrying out such plan. 



"RtTRAL COMMtTNITIES ASSISTANCE 



"Sec. 4009. (a) In General. — The Administrator 

 shall make grants to States to provide assistance to 

 municipalities with a population of five thousand 

 or less, or counties with a pwpulation of ten thou- 

 sand or less or less than twenty persons per 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 burning or other 

 requirements arising under the Clean Air Act or 

 the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Such as- 

 sistance shall only be available — 



"(1) to any municipality or county which could 

 not feasibly be included in a solid waste manage- 

 ment system or facility serving an urbanized, 

 multijurisdictional area because of its distance 

 from such systems; 



"(2) where existing or planned solid waste 

 management services or facilities are unavail- 

 able or insufiBcient to comply with the require- 

 ments of section 4005 of this Act; and 



"(3) for systems which are certified by the 

 State to be consistent with any plans or pro- 

 grams established under any State or areawide 

 planning process. 



"(b) Allotment. — The Administrator shall allot 

 the sums appropriated to carry out this section 

 in any fiscal year among the States in accordance 

 \yith regulations promulgated by him on the basis 

 of the average of the ratio which the population 

 of rural areas of each State bears to the total 

 population of rural areas of all the States, the 

 ratio which the population of counties in each 

 State having less than twenty persons per square 

 mile bears to the initial population of such coun- 

 ties in all the States, and the ratio which the 

 population of such low-density counties in each 

 State having 33 per centum or more of all families 

 with incomes not in excess of 125 per centum of 

 the poverty level bears to the total population of 

 such counties in all the States. 



"(c) Limit.— The amount of any grant under 

 this section shall not exceed 75 per centum of the 

 costs of the project. No assistance under this sec- 

 tion shall be available for the acquisition of land or 

 Interests in land. 



"(d) Appropriations. — There are authorized to 

 be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal 

 years 1978 and 1979 to carry out this section. 



"Subtitle E — Duties of the Secretary of Commerce 

 in Resource and Recovery 



"FUNCTIONS 



"Sec 5001. The Secretary of Commerce shall 



encourage greater commercialization of proven re- 

 covery technology by providing — 



"(1) accurate specifications for recovered ma- 

 terials ; 



"(2) stimulation of development of markets 

 for recovered materials ; 



"(3) promotion of proven technology; and 



"(4) a forum for the exchange of technical 

 and economic data relating to resource recovery 

 facilities. 



"development of specifications for SECONDARY 

 MATERIALS 



"Sec. 5002. The Secretary of Commerce, acting 

 through the National Bureau of Standards, and in 

 conjunction With national standards-setting orga- 

 nizations in resource recovery, shall, after public 

 hearings, and not later than two years after the 

 date of the enactment of this Act, publish guide- 

 lines for the development of sjjecifications for the 

 classification of materials recovered from waste 

 which were destined for disposal. The specifications 

 shall pertain to the physical and chemical prop- 

 erties and characteristics of such materials with 

 regard to their use In replacing virgin materials in 

 various industrial, commercial, and governmental 

 uses. In establishing such guidelines the Secretary 

 shall also, to the extent feasible, provide such In- 

 formation as may be necessary to assist Federal 

 agencies with procurement of items containing 

 recovered materials. The Secretary shall continue 

 to cooperate with national standards-setting orga- 

 nizations, as may be necessary, to encourage the 

 publication, promulgation and updating of stand- 

 ards for recovered materials and for the use of 

 recovered materials in various industrial, commer- 

 cial, and governmental uses. 



"development of markets for RECOVERED MATERIALS 



"Sec. 5003. The Secretary of Commerce shall 

 within two years after the enactment of this Act 

 take such actions as may be necessary to — 



"(1) Identify the geographical location of 

 existing or potential markets for recovered 

 materials; 



"(2) identify the economic and technical bar- 

 riers to the use of recovered materials; and 



"(3) encourage the development of new uses 

 for recovered materials. 



"technology PROMOTION 



"Sec 5004. The Secretary of Commerce Is 

 authorized to evaluate the commercial feasibility 

 of resource recovery facilities and to publish the 

 results of such evaluation, and to develop a data 

 base for purposes of assisting persons in choosing 

 such a system. 



"Subtitle F — ^Federal Responsibilities 



"APPLICATION of FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW 

 TO FEDERAL FACILITIES 



"Sec. 6001. Each department, agency, and in- 



