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tivity related sources of pollution, and (ii) set 

 forth procedures and methods (including land 

 use requirements) to control to the extent feasible 

 such sources; 



(I) a process to (i) identify, if appropriate, salt 

 water intrusion into rivers, lakes, and estuaries 

 resulting from reduction of fresh water flow from 

 any cause, including irrigation, obstruction, 

 ground water extraction, and diversion, and (ii) 

 set forth procedures and methods to control such 

 intrusion to the extent feasible where such proce- 

 dures and methods are otherwise a part of the 

 waste treatment management plan; 



(J) a process to control the disposition of all 

 residual waste generated in such area which could 

 affect water quality; and 



(Ki a process to control the disposal of pollut- 

 ants on land or in subsurface excavations within 

 such area to protect ground and surface water 

 quality. 



(3) Area wide waste treatment management plans 

 shall be certified annually by the Governor or his 

 designee (or Governors or their designees, where 

 more than one State is involved) as being consistent 

 with applicable basin plans and such areawide waste 

 treatment management plans shall be submitted to 

 the Administrator for his ajjproval. 



(4) Whenever the Governor of any State deter- 

 mines (and notifies the Administrator) that con- 

 sistency with a statewide regulatory program under 

 section 1313 of this title so requires, the require- 

 ments of clauses (Fj through (K) of paragraph (2) 

 of this subsection shall be developed and submitted 

 by the Governor to the Administrator for applica- 

 tion to all regions within such State. 



(c) Regional operating agencies. 



(1) The Governor of each State, in consultation 

 with the planning agency designated under sub- 

 section (a) of this section, at the time a plan is sub- 

 mitted to the Administrator, shall designate one or 

 more waste treatment management agencies (which 

 may be an existing or newly created local, regional, 

 or State agency or political subdivision) for each 

 area designated under subsection (a) of this section 

 and submit such designations to the Administrator. 



(2) The Administrator shall accept any such des- 

 ignation, unless, within 120 days of such designation, 

 he finds that the designated management agency 

 (or agencies) does not have adequate authority — 



(A) to carry out appropriate portions of an 

 areawide waste treatment management plan de- 

 veloped under subsection (b) of this section; 



(B) to manage effectively waste treatment 

 works and related facilities serving such area in 

 conformance with any plan required by subsection 

 (b) of this section; 



(C) directly or by contract, to design and con- 

 struct new works, and to operate and maintain 

 new and existing works as required by any plan 

 developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this 

 section ; 



(D) to accept and utilize grants, or other funds 

 from any source, for waste treatment management 

 purposes ; 



(E) to raise revenues, including the assessment 



of waste treatment charges; 



(F) to incur short- and long-term indebted- 

 ness; 



(G) to assure in implementation of an areawide 

 waste treatment management plan that each par- 

 ticipating community pays its proportionate share 

 of treatment costs; 



(H) to refuse to receive any wastes from any 

 municipality or subdivision thereof, which does 

 not comply with any provisions of an approved 

 plan under this section applicable to such area; 

 and 



(I) to accept for treatment industrial wastes. 



(d) Conformity of works with area plan. 



After a waste treatment management agency 

 having the authority required by subsection (c) of 

 this section has been designated under such subsec- 

 tion for an area and a plan for such area has been 

 approved under subsection (b) of this section, the 

 Administrator shall not make any grant for con- 

 struction of a publicly owned treatment works under 

 section 1281(g)(1) of this title within such area 

 except to such designated agency and for works in 

 conformity with such plan. 



(e) Permits not to conflict with approved plans. 



No permit under section 1342 of this title shall be 

 issued for any point source which is in conflict with 

 a plan approved pursuant to subsection (b) of this 

 section. 



(f) Grants. 



(1) The Administrator shall make grants to any 

 agency designated under subsection (a) of this sec- 

 tion for payment of the reasonable costs of develop- 

 ing and operating a continuing areawide waste 

 treatment management planning process under sub- 

 section (b) of this section. 



(2) The amount granted to any agency under 

 paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be 100 per 

 centum of the costs of developing and operating a 

 continuing areawide waste treatment management 

 planning process under subsection (b) of this sec- 

 tion for each of the fiscal years ending on June 30, 

 1973, June 30, 1974, and June 30, 1975. and shall not 

 exceed 75 per centum of such costs in each succeed- 

 ing fiscal year. 



(3) Each applicant for a grant under this sub- 

 section shall submit to the Administrator for his 

 approval each proposal for which a grant is applied 

 for under this subsection. The Administrator shall 

 act upon such proposal as soon as practicable after 

 it has been submitted, and his approval of that pro- 

 posal shall be deemed a contractual obligation of 

 the United States for the payment of its contribu- 

 tion to such proposal. There is authorized to be ap- 

 propriated to carry out this subsection not to exceed 

 $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending Jime 30. 1973, 

 not to exceed $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30. 1974. and not to exceed $150,000,000 for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. 



(g) Technical assistance by Administrator. 



The Administrator is authorized, upon request of 

 the Governor or the designated planning agency, 

 and without reimbursement, to consult with, and 

 provide technical assistance to. any agency desig- 



