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Interlocal, and regional solid-waste disposal pro- 

 grams; and encourage the enactment of improved 

 and, so far as practicable, uniform Staie and local 

 laws governing solid-waste disposal. (Pub. L. 89- 

 272. title II. § 206. formerly § 205. Oct. 20, 1965. 79 

 Stat, 999. renumbered Pub. L 91-512, title I, § 104 

 (a). Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1228.) 



§ 3254a. Grants for State, interstate, and local plan- 

 ning. 



(a) Authorization. 



The Secretary may from time to time, upon such 

 terms and conditions consistent with this section as 

 he finds appropriate to carry out the purposes of this 

 chapter, make grants to State, interstate, municipal, 

 and intermunicipal agencies, and organizations com- 

 posed of public officials which are eligible for assist- 

 ance under section 461(g) of Title 40, of not to ex- 

 ceed 66% per centum of the cost in the case of an 

 application with respect to an area including only 

 one municipality, and not to exceed 75 per centum of 

 the cost In any other case, of — 



(1) making surveys of solid waste disposal 

 practices and problems within the jurisdictional 

 areas of such agencies and 



(2) developing and revising solid waste disix>sal 

 plans as part of regional environmental protec- 

 tion systems for such areas, providing for recy- 

 cling or recovery of materials from wastes when- 

 ever possible and Including planning for the reuse 

 of solid waste disposal areas and studies of the 

 effect and relationship of solid waste disposal 

 practices on areeis adjacent to waste disposal sites, 



(3) developing proposals for projects to be car- 

 ried out pursuant to section 3254b of this title, or 



(4) planning programs for the removal and 

 processing of abandoned motor vehicle hulks. 



(b) Application; contents. 



Grants pursuant to this section may be made upon 

 application therefor which — 



(1) designates or establishes a single agency 

 which may be an interdepartmental agency) as 

 the sole agency for carrying out the purposes of 

 this section for the area Involved: 



(2) indicates the manner in which provision 

 will be made to assure full consideration of all 

 aspects of planning essential to areawide planning 

 for proper and effective solid waste disposal con- 

 sistent with the protection of the public health 

 and welfare, 'ncluding such factors as population 

 growth, urban and metropolitan development, 

 land use planning, water pollution control, air 

 pollution control, and the feasibility of regional 

 disposal and resource re<;overy programs; 



(3) sets forth plans for expenditure of such 

 grant, which plans provide reasonable assurance 

 of carrying out the purposes of this section; 



(4) provides for submission of such repwrts of 

 the activities of the agency in carrying out the 

 purposes of this section, in such form and contain- 

 ing such information, as the Secretary may from 

 time to time find necessary for carrying out the 

 purposes of this section and for keeping such rec- 

 ords and affording such access thereto as he may 



find necessary; and 



(5) provides for such fiscal -control and fund- 

 accounting procedures as may be necessary to as- 

 sure proper disbursement of and accounting for 

 funds paid to the agency under this section. 



(c) Coordination of solid waste disposal planning with 

 other planning activities. 

 The Secretary shall make a grant under this sec- 

 tion only If he finds that there Is satisfactory assur- 

 ance that the planning of solid waste disposal will 

 be coordinated, so far as practicable, with and not 

 duplicate other related State, interstate, regional, 

 and local planning activities, including those fi- 

 nanced In part with funds pursuant to section 461 

 of Title 40. (Pub. L. 89-272, title 11 5 207. as added 

 Pub. L. 91-512, title I, § 104(b) , Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 

 1229.) 



§ 3254b. Grants for resource recovery systems and im- 

 proved solid waste disposal facilities. 



(a) Authorization. 



The Secretary is authorized to make grants pur- 

 suant to this section to any State, municipal, or 

 interstate or intermunicipal agency for the demon- 

 stration of resource recovery systems or for the cMi- 

 struction of new or improved solid waste disposal 

 facilities. 



(b) Conditions of grant for the demonstration of a 

 resource recovery system ; Federal share. 



( 1 ) Any grant under this section for the demon- 

 stration of a resource recovery system may be made 

 only if it (A) is consistent with any plans which 

 meet the requirements of section 3254a(b) (2) of this 

 title; (B) Is consistent with the guidelines recom- 

 mended pursuant to section 3254c of this title; (C) 

 Is designed to provide Eu-eawlde resource recovery 

 systems consistent with the purposes of this chapter, 

 as determined by the Secretary, pursuant to regula- 

 tions promulgated under subsection (d) of this sec- 

 tion; 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) Tlie Federal share for any project to which 

 paragraph (1) applies s}iall not be more than 75 

 percent. 



(c) Conditions of grant for construction of solid waste 

 disposal facility; Federal share. 



(1) A grant under this section for the construc- 

 tion of a new or improved solid waste dls[>osal 

 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 

 (1) is consistent with such plan, (ii) Is Included 

 in a comprehensive plan for the area involved 

 which is satisfactory to the Secretary for the pur- 

 poses of this chapter, and (iil) is consistent with 

 the guidelines recommended under section 3254c 

 of this title, and 



(B) the project advances the state of the art 

 by applying new and improved techniques in re- 

 ducing the environmental impact of solid waste 

 disposal, in achieving recovery of energy or re- 



