750 



days after publication of the guidelines issued 

 pursuant to paragraph ( 1 ) of this subsection, shall 

 identify each area within the State which, as a 

 result of urban-industrial concentrations or other 

 factors, has substantial water quality control 

 problems. Not later than one hundred and twenty 

 days following such identification and after con- 

 sultation with appropriate elected and other offi- 

 cials of local government"! having jurisdiction in 

 such areas, the Governor shall designate (A) the 

 boundaries of each such area, and (B) a single 

 representative organization, including elected 

 officials from local governments or their designees, 

 capable of developing effective areawide waste 

 treatment management plans for such area. The 

 Governor may in the same manner at any later 

 time identify any additional area (or modify an 

 existing area) for which he determines areawide 

 waste treatm.ent management to be appropriate, 

 designate the boundaries of such area, and desig- 

 nate an organization capitble of developing effec- 

 tive areawide waste treatment management plans 

 for such area. 



'3) With respect to any area which, pursuant to 

 the guidelines published under paragraph (1) of 

 this subsection, is located in two or more States, 

 the Governors of the respective States shall con- 

 sult and cooperate in carrying out the provisions 

 of paragraph (2), with a view toward designating 

 the boundaries of the interstate area having com- 

 mon water quality control problems and for which 

 areawide waste treatment management plans 

 would be most effective, and toward designating, 

 within one hundred and eighty days after publica- 

 tion of guidelines issued pui-suant to paragraph 

 (1) of this subsection, of a single representative 

 organization capable of developing effective area- 

 wide waste treatment management plans for such 

 area. 



(4) If a Governor does not act, either by desig- 

 nating or determining not to make a designation 

 under paragiaph (2) of this subsection, within the 

 time required by such paragraph, or if, in the case 

 of an interstate area, the Governors of the States 

 involved do not designate a planning organization 

 within the time req'jired by paragraph (3) of this 

 subsection, the chief elected officials of local gov- 

 ernments within an area may by agreement desig- 

 nate (A) the boundaries for such an area, and 

 (B) a single representative organization including 

 elected ofBcials from such local governments, or 

 their designees, capable of developir? an areawid" 

 waste treatment management plan for such area. 



(5> Existing regional agencies may be desig- 

 nated under paragraphs '2). (3), and (4) of this 

 subsection. 



(6) The State shall act as a planning agency 

 for all portions of such State which are not desig- 

 nated under p>aragraphs (2), (3), or (4) of this 

 subsection. 



(7) Designations under this subsection shall be 

 subject to the approval of the Administrator. 



(b) Planning process. 



(1 ) Not later than one year after the date of des- 

 ignation of any organization under subsection (a> of 



this section such organization shall have in operation 

 a continuing areawide waste treatment management 

 planning process consistent with section 1281 of this 

 title. Plans prepared in accordance with this process 

 shall contain alternatives for waste treatment man- 

 agement, and be applicable to all wastes generated 

 within the area involved. The initial plan prepared 

 in accordance with such process shall be certified 

 by the Governor and submitted to the Administrator 

 not later than two years after the planning process 

 is in operation. 



(2) Any plan prepared under such process shall 

 include, but not be limited to — 



(A) the identification of treatment works nec- 

 essary to meet the anticipated municipal and in- 

 dustrial waste treatment needs of the area over a 

 twenty-year period, annually updated (including 

 an analysis of alternative waste treatment sys- 

 tems), including any requirements for the acqui- 

 sition of land for treatment purposes; the 

 necessary waste water collection and urban storm 

 water runoff systems; and a program to provide 

 the necessary financial arrangements for the de- 

 velopment of such treatment works; 



(B) the establishment of construction priorities 

 for such treatment works and time schedules for 

 the initiation and completion of all treatment 

 works; 



(C) the establishment of a regulatory program 

 • to— 



(i) implement the waste treatment manage- 

 ment requirements of section 1281(c'i of this 

 title, 



(ii) regulate the location, modification, and 

 construction of any facilities within such area 

 which may result in any discharge in such area, 

 and 



fiii) assure that any industrial or commer- 

 cial wastes discharged into any treatment works 

 in such area meet applicable pretreatment 

 requirements ; 



(D) the identification of those agencies neces- 

 sary to construct, operate, and maintain all facili- 

 ties required by the plan and otherwise to carry 

 Out the plan; 



; F ) the identification of the measures necessary 

 to carrj' out the plan (inciudine; iinancing), the 

 pe iod oi time necessary to carry out the plan, the 

 costs 01 Ca,rryuig out the plan within such time, 

 and the economic, social, and environmental im- 

 pact of carrying out the plan within such time; 



(P- a process to ' : ' identify, if appropriate, 

 agritalturally aftd silviculturally related nonpoint 

 sources of pollution, including runoff from manure 

 disposal areas, and from land used for livestock 

 and crop production, and (ii) set forth procedures 

 and methods (including land use requirements) to 

 control to the extent feasible such sources; 



(G) a process to (i' identify, if appropriate, 

 mine-related sources of pollution including new, 

 current, and abandoned surface and underground 

 mine runoff, and (ii) .set forth procedures and 

 metliods 'including land use requirements) to 

 control to the extent feasible such sources; 



(H) a process to ti) identify construction ac- 



