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(e) Research and demonstration projects covering 

 agricultural pollution and pollution from sewage 

 in rural areas: dissemination of information. 



(1) The Administrator is authorized to (Ai make, 

 in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 grants to persons for research and demonstration 

 projects with respect to new and improved methods 

 of preventing, reducing, and eliminating pollution 

 from agriculture, and (Bi disseminate, in coopera- 

 tion with the Secretary of Agriculture, such infor- 

 mation obtained under this subsection, section 

 1254(p> of this title, and section 1314 of this title 

 as will encourage and enable the adoption of such 

 methods in the agricultural industry. 



(2) The Administrator is authorized, (A) in con- 

 sultation with other interested Federal agencies, to 

 make grants for demonstration projects with re- 

 spect to new and improved methods of preventing, 

 reducing, storing, collecting, treating, or otherwise 

 eliminating pollution from sewage in rural and other 

 areas where collection of sewage in conventional, 

 community-wide sewage collection systems is im- 

 practical, uneconomical, or otherwise infeasible, or 

 where soil conditions or other factors preclude the 

 use of septic tank and drainage field systems, and 

 (B> in cooperation with other interested Federal and 

 State agencies, to disseminate such information ob- 

 tained under this subsection as will encourage and 

 enable the adoption of new and improved methnd.s 

 developed pursuant to this subsection. 



(f) Limitations. 



Federal grants under subsection 'a) of this section 

 shall be subject to the following limitations: 



(1> No grant shall be made for any project un- 

 less such project shall have been approved by the 

 appropriate State water pollution control agency 

 or agencies and by the Administrator; 



(2) No grant shall be made for any project in an 

 amount exceeding 75 per centum of cost thereof 

 as determined by the Administrator: and 



(3) No grant shall be made for any project un- 

 less the Administrator determines that such proj- 

 ect will serve as a useful demonstration for the 

 purpose set forth in clause (1 ) or 1 2 1 of subsection 

 (a> of this section, 



(g) Maximum grants. 



Federal grants under subsections (c) and id) of 

 this section shall not exceed 75 per centum of the 

 cost of the project. 



(h) Authorization of appropriations. 



For the purpose of this section there is authorized 

 to be appropriated $75,000,000 per fiscal year for the 

 fiscal year i.hali be available only for the pui-poses of 

 ing June 30, 1974. and the fiscal year e:iding Jane 30, 

 1975, and frcm such appropriationr^ at least 10 per 

 centum of the funds actually appropriated in each 

 fiscal year shr.ll bs abailabie only for the purposes of 

 subjection 'e) of this section. (June 30, 1S4C, ch. 758, 

 title I, § 105, as added Oct. 18, 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, 

 § 2, 86 Stat. 825, and amended June 2, 1975, Pub. L. 

 93-592, § 2, 88 Stat. 1925.) 



Amendments 

 1975 — Su'osec. (h) . Pub. L. 93-J92 substituted -'the H'cal 

 year ending June 30. 1974, and the fiscil year ending 

 June 30, 1975," for "and the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1974,". 



§ 125G. Grants for pollution control programs. 



(a) Authorization of appropriations for state and 

 interstate programs. 

 There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 

 the following sums, to remain available until ex- 

 pended, to carry out the purpose of this section — 



(1) $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1973; and 



(2) $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1974, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1975; 



for grants to States and to interstate agencies to 

 assist them in administering programs for the pre- 

 vention, reduction, and elimination of pollution, in- 

 cluding enforcement directly or through appropriate 

 State law enforcement officers or agencies. 



(b) Allotments. 



From the sums appropriated in any fiscal year, the 

 Administrator shall make allotments to the several 

 States and interstate agencies in accordance with 

 regulations promulgated by him on the basis of the 

 extent of the pollution problem in the respective 

 States. 



(c) Maximum annual payments. 



The Administrator is authorized to pay to each 

 State and interstate agency each fiscal year either — 



(1) the allotment of such State or agency for 

 such fiscal year under subsection (b> of this sec- 

 tion, or 



(2) the reasonable costs as determined by the 

 Administrator of developing and carrying out a 

 pollution program by such State or agency during 

 such fiscal year, 



which ever amount is the lesser. 



(d) Limitations. 



No grant shall be made under this section to any 

 State or interstate agency for any fiscal year when 

 the expenditure of non-Federal funds by such State 

 or interstate agency during such fiscal year for the 

 recurrent expenses of carrying out its pollution con- 

 trol program are less than the expenditure by such 

 State or interstate agency of non-Federal funds for 

 such recurrent program expenses during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1971. 



(e) Grants prohibited to states not establishing wafer 

 quality monitoring procedures or adequate emer- 

 gency and contingency plans. 



Beginning in fiscal year 1974 the Administrator 

 shall not make any grant under this section to any 

 State which has not provided or is not carrying 

 out as a part of its program — 



(1) the establishment and operation of appro- 

 priate devices, methods, systems, and procedures 

 necessary to monitor, and to compile and analyze 

 data on (including classification according to 

 eutrophic condition), the quality of navigable 

 waters and to the extent practicable, ground 

 waters including biological monitoring: and pro- 

 vision for annually updating such data and includ- 

 ing it in the report required under section 1315 of 

 this title : 



(2) authority comparable to that in section 

 1364 of this title and adequate contingency plans 

 to implement such authority. 



