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vironmental repair of Lake Erie. Prior to the initia- 

 tion of detailed engineering and design, the program, 

 along with the specific recommendations of the Chief 

 of Engineers, and recommendations for its financing, 

 shall be submitted to the Congress for statutory ap- 

 proval. This authority is in addition to. and not in 

 lieu of, other waste water studies aimed at elimi- 

 nating pollution emanating from select sources 

 around Lake Erie. 



(2) This program is to be developed in cooperation 

 with the Envii-onmental Protection Agency, other in- 

 terested departments, agencies, and instrumentalities 

 of the Federal Government, and the States and their 

 political subdivisions. This program shall set forth 

 alternative systems for managing waste water on a 

 regional basis and shall provide local and State gov- 

 ernments with a range of choice as to the type of 

 system to be used for the treatment of waste water. 

 These alternative systems shall include both 

 advanced waste treatment technology and land 

 disposal systems including aerated treatment-spray 

 irrigation technology and will also include provisions 

 for the disposal of solid wastes, including sludge. 

 Such program should include measures to control 

 point sources of pollution, area sources of pollution, 

 including acid-mine drainage, urban runoff and 

 rural runoff, and in place sources of pollution, in- 

 cluding bottom loads, sludge banks, and polluted 

 harbor dredgings. 



(e) Authorization of appropriations for Lake Eric 

 demonstration program. 



There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 

 to carry out the provisions of subsection (d) of this 

 section, which sum shall be available until exp>ended. 

 (June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title I, § 108, as added Oct. 18, 

 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, § 2, 86 Stat. 828.) 

 § 1259. Training grants and contracts. 



(a> The Administrator is authorized to make 

 grants to or contracts with institutions of higher 

 education, or combinations of such institutions, to 

 assist them in planning, developing, strengthening, 

 improving, or carrying out programs or projects for 

 the preparation of undergraduate students to enter 

 an occupation which involves the design, operation, 

 and maintenance of treatment works, and other 

 facilities whose purpose is water quality control. 

 Such grants or contracts may include payment of 

 all or part of the cost of programs or projects such 

 as — 



(A) planning for the development or expansion 

 of programs or projects for training persons in the 

 operation and maintenance of treatment works; 



(B ) training and retraining of faculty members ; 



(C) conduct of short-term or regular session 

 institutes for study by persons engaged in. or pre- 

 paring to engage in. the preparation of students 

 preparing to enter an occupation involving the 

 operation and maintenance of treatment works: 



(D) carrying out innovative and experimental 

 programs of cooperative education involving alter- 

 nate periods of full-time or part-time academic 

 study at the institution and periods of full-time or 

 part-time employment involving the operation and 

 maintenance of treatment works; and 



(E) research into, and development of, methods 

 of training students or faculty, including the prep- 

 aration of teaching materials and the planning of 

 curriculum. 



(b)(1) The Administrator may pay 100 per centum 

 of any additional cost of construction of a treatment 

 works required for a facility to train and upgrade 

 waste treatment works operation and maintenance 

 personnel. 



(2) The Administrator shall make no more than 

 one grant for such additional construction in any 

 State ( to serve a group of States, where, in his judg- 

 ment, efficient training programs require multi-State 

 programs! . and shall make such grant after consul- 

 tation with and approval by the State or States on 

 the basis of (Ai the suitability of such facility for 

 training operation and maintenance personnel for 

 treatment works throughout such State or States; 

 and <Bi a commitment by the State agency or agen- 

 cies to carry out at such faciUty a program of train- 

 ing approved by the Administrator. 



(3 1 The Administrator may make such grant out 

 of the sums allocated to a State under section 1285 

 of this title, except that in no event shall the Federal 

 cost of any such training facilities exceed $250,000. 

 (June 30. 1948. ch. 758, title I. § 109. as added Oct. 18, 

 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, § 2, 86 Stat. 829.) 



Section Referred to in Other Sections 

 This section Is referred to In sections 1260, 1262 and 

 1375 of this title 



§ 1260. Same; applications; allocation. 



(1» A grant or contract authorized by section 1259 

 of this title may be made only upon application to 

 the Administrator at such time or times and con- 

 taining such information as he may prescribe, except 

 that no such application shall be approved unless 

 it^ 



(A) sets forth programs, activities, research, or 

 development for which a grant is authorized under 

 section 1259 of this title and describes the relation 

 to any program set forth by the applicant in an 

 application, if any, submitted pursuant to section 

 1261 of this title; 



(B) provides such fiscal control and fund ac- 

 counting procedures as may be necessary to assure 

 proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal 

 funds paid to the applicant under this section; 

 and 



(C) provides for making such reports, in such 

 form and containing such information, as the Ad- 

 ministrator may require to carry out his functions 

 under this section, and for keeping such records 

 and for affording such access thereto as the Ad- 

 ministrator may find necessary to assure the cor- 

 rectness and verification of such reports. 



(2) The Administrator shall allocate grants or 

 contracts under section 1259 of this title in such 

 manner as will most nearly provide an equitable 

 distribution of the grants or contracts throughout 

 the United States among institutions of higher edu- 

 cation which show promise of being able to use 

 funds effectively for the purpose of this section. 



(3) (A) Payments under this section may be used 

 in accordance with regulations of the Administrator, 

 and subject to the terms and conditions set forth 



