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such revenues shall be used by the designated re- 

 gional management agency to aid in financing other 

 environmental improvement programs. 



(f) The Administrator shall encourage waste 

 treatment management which combines "open 

 space" and recreational considerations with such 

 management. 



(g)(1) The Administrator is authorized to make 

 grants to any State, municipality, or intermunicipal 

 or interstate agency for the construction of publicly 

 owned treatment works. 



(2) The Administrator shall not make grants from 

 funds authorized for any fiscal year beginning after 

 June 30, 1974, to any State, municipality, or inter- 

 municipal or interstate agency for the erection, 

 building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, im- 

 provement, or extension of treatment works unless 

 the grant applicant has satisfactorily demonstrated 

 to the Administrator that — 



(A) alternative waste management techniques 

 have been studied and evaluated and the works 

 proposed for grant assistance will provide for the 

 application of the best practicable waste treat- 

 ment technology over the life of the works con- 

 sistent with the purposes of this subchapter; 

 and 



(B) as appropriate, the works proposed for 

 grant assistance will take into account and allow 

 to the extent practicable the application of tech- 

 nology at a later date which will provide for the 

 reclaiming or recycling of water or otherwise elim- 

 inate the discharge of pollutants. 



(3) The Administrator shall not approve any 

 grant after July 1, 1973, for treatment works under 

 this section unless the applicant shows to the satis- 

 faction of the Administrator that each sewer col- 

 lection system discharging into such treatment 

 works is not subject to excessive infiltration. 



(4) The Administrator is authorized to make 

 grants to applicants for treatment works grants 

 under this section for such sewer system evaluation 

 studies as may be necessary to carry out the re- 

 quirements of paragraph (3) of this subsection. 

 Such grants shall be made in accordance with rules 

 and regulations promulgated by the Administrator. 

 Initial rules and regulations shall be promul- 

 gated under this paragraph not later than 120 days 

 after October 18, 1972. (June 30, 1948. ch. 758, title 

 II, § 201, as added Oct. 18, 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, § 2, 

 86 Stat. 833.) 



§ 1282. Federal share. 



(a) The amount of any grant for treatment works 

 made under this chapter from funds authorized for 

 any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1971, shall 

 be 75 per centum of the cost of construction thereof 

 (as approved by the Administrator) . Any grant 

 (other than for reimbursement) made prior to Octo- 

 ber 18, 1972, from any funds authorized for any fiscal 

 year beginning after June 30, 1971, shall, upon the 

 request of the applicant, be increased to the appli- 

 cable percentage under this section. 



(b) The amount of the grant for any project ap- 

 proved by the Administrator after January 1, 1971, 

 and before July 1, 1971. for the construction of treat- 

 ment works, the actual erection, building or acquisi- 



tion of which was not commenced prior to July 1, 

 1971, shall, upon the request of the applicant, be in- 

 creased to the applicable percentage under subsec- 

 tion (a) of this section for grants for treatment 

 works from funds for fiscal years beginning after 

 June 30, 1971, with respect to the cost of such actual 

 erection, building, or acquisition. Such increased 

 amount shall be paid from any funds allocated to 

 the State in which the treatment works is located 

 without regard to the fiscal year for which such 

 funds were authorized. Such increased amount shall 

 be paid for such project only if — 



(1) a sewage collection system that is a part 

 of the same total waste treatment system as the 

 treatment works for which such grant was ap- 

 proved is under construction or is to be constructed 

 for use in conjunction with such treatment works, 

 and if the cost of such sewage collection system 

 exceeds the cost of such treatment works, and 



(2) the State water pollution control agency 

 or other appropriate State authority certifies that 

 the quantity of available ground water will be 

 insufficient, inadequate, or unsuitable for public 

 use, including the ecological preservation and rec- 

 reational use of surface water bodies, unless efflu- 

 ents from publicly-owned treatment works after 

 adequate treatment are returned to the ground 

 water consistent with acceptable technological 

 standards. 



(June 30, 1948. ch. 758, title II, § 202, as added 

 Oct. 18, 1972, Pub. L. 92-500, § 2, 86 Stat. 834.) 



§ 1283. Plans, specifications, estimates, and payments. 



(a) Each applicant for a grant shall submit to 

 the Administrator for his approval, plans, specifica- 

 tions, and estimates for each proposed project for the 

 construction of treatment works for which a grant 

 is applied for under section 1281(g)(1) of this title 

 from funds allotted to the State under section 1285 

 of this title and which otherwise meets the require- 

 ments of this chapter. The Administrator shall act 

 upon such plans, specifications, and estimates as 

 soon as practicable after the same have been sub- 

 milted, and his approval of any such plans, speci- 

 fications, and estimates shall be deemed a con- 

 tractual obligation of the United States for the pay- 

 ment of its proportional contribution to such project. 



(b) The Administrator shall, from time to time 

 as the work progresses, make payments to the re- 

 cipient of a grant for costs of construction incurred 

 on a project. These payments shall at no time ex- 

 ceed the Federal share of the cost of construction in- 

 curred to the date of the voucher covering such 

 payment plus the Federal share of the value of the 

 materials which have been stockpiled in the vicinity 

 of such construction in conformity to plans and 

 specifications for the project. 



(c) After completion of a project and approval of 

 the final voucher by the Administrator, he shall pay 

 out of the appropriate sums the unpaid balance of 

 the Federal share payable on account of such project. 



(d) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to 

 require, or to authorize the Administrator to require, 

 that grants under this chapter for construction of 

 treatment works be made only for projects which are 



