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section 300g-l of this title, and for keeping records 

 and making reports required by section 300g-2 

 (a)(3) of this title. 



(2) The term "underground water source pro- 

 tection program" means a program for the adop- 

 tion and enforcement of a program which meets 

 the requirements of regulations under section 

 300h of this title and for keeping records and mak- 

 ing reports required by section 300h-lCb) (1) (A) 

 (ii) of this title. 

 (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XTV, § 1443, as added 

 Dec. 16, 1974, Pub. L. 93-523, § 2(a), 88 Stat. 1684.) 



§300j-3. Special project grants and guaranteed loans, 

 (a) Special study and demonstration project grants. 



The Administrator may make grants to any per- 

 son for the purposes of — 



(1) assisting in the development and demon- 

 stration (including construction) of any project 

 which will demonstrate a new or improved method, 

 approach, or technology, for providing a depend- 

 ably safe supply of drinking water to the public; 

 and 



(2) assisting in the development and demon- 

 stration (including construction) of any project 

 which will investigate and demonstrate health 

 implications involved in the reclamation, re- 

 cycling, and reuse of waste waters for drinking 

 and the processes and methods for the prepara- 

 tion of safe and acceptable drinking water. 



(b) Limitations. 



Grants made by the Administrator under this sec- 

 tion shall be subject to the following limitations: 



(1) Grants imder this section shall not exceed 

 66% per centum of the total cost of construction 

 of any facility and 75 per centum of any other 

 costs, as determined by the Administrator. 



(2) Grants under this section shall not be made 

 for any project involving the construction or modi- 

 fication of any facilities for any public water sys- 

 tem in a State unless such project has been ap- 

 proved by the State agency charged with the re- 

 sponsibility for safety of drinking water (or if there 

 is no such agency in a State, by the State health 

 authority). 



(3) Grants under this section shall not be made 

 for any project unless the Administrator deter- 

 mines, after consulting the National Drinking Wa- 

 ter Advisory Council, that such project will serve 

 a useful purpose relating to the development and 

 demonstration of new or improved techniques, 

 methods, or technologies for the provision of safe 

 water to the public for drinking. 



(4) Priority for grants under this section shall 

 be given where there are known or potential public 

 health hazards which require advanced technology 

 for the removal of particles which are too small to 

 be removed by ordinary treatment technology. 



(c) Authorization of appropriations. 



For the purposes of making grants under subsec- 

 tions (a) and (b) of this section there are authorized 

 to be appropriated $7,500,000 for the fiscal year end- 



ing June 30, 1975; and $7,500,000 for the fiscal year 

 ending June 30, 1976; and $10,000,000 for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1977. 



(d) Loan guarantees to public water systems; condi- 

 tions; indebtedness limitation; regulations. 



The Ad.Tiinistrator during the fiscal years ending 

 June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976, shall carry out a 

 program of guaranteeing loans made by private 

 lenders to small public water systems for the purpose 

 of enabling such systems to meet national primary 

 drinking water regulations (including interim regu- 

 lations) prescribed under section 300g-l of this title. 

 No such guarantee may be made with respect to a 

 system unless ( 1 ) such system cannot reasonably 

 obtain financial assistance necessary to comply with 

 such regulations from any other source, and (2) the 

 Administrator determines that any facilities con- 

 structed with a loan guaranteed imder this subsec- 

 tion is not likely to be made obsolete by subsequent 

 changes in primary regulations. The aggregate 

 amount of indebtedness guaranteed with respect to 

 any system may not exceed $50,000. The aggregate 

 amount of indebtedness guaranteed under this sub- 

 section may not exceed $50,000,000. The Administra- 

 tor shall prescribe regulations to carry out this sub- 

 section. (July 1, 1944, ch. 373. title XIV, § 1444, as 

 added Dec. 16, 1974, Pub. L. 93-523, § 2(a), 88 Stat, 

 1685.) 



§ 300J-4. Records and inspections. 



(a) Persons subject to requirements. 



Every person who is a supplier of water, who is or 

 may be otherwise subject to a primary drinking water 

 regulation prescribed under section 300g-l of this 

 title or to an applicable underground injection con- 

 trol program (as defined in section 300h-l(c) of this 

 title) , who is or may be subject to the permit re- 

 quirement of section 300h-3 of this title or to an 

 order issued under section 300j of this title, or who 

 is a grantee, shall establish and maintain such rec- 

 ords, make such reports, conduct such monitoring, 

 and provide such information as the Administrator 

 may reasonably require by regulation to assist him 

 in establishing regulations under this subchapter, in 

 determining whether such person has acted or is 

 acting in compliance with this subchapter or in ad- 

 ministering any program of financial assistance 

 under this subchapter 



(b) Entry of establishments, facilities, or other prop- 

 erty; inspections; conduct of certain tests; audit 

 and examination of records; entry restrictions; 

 prohibition against informing of a proposed entry. 



(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Ad- 

 ministrator, or representatives of the Administrator 

 duly designated by him, upon presenting appropriate 

 credentials and a written notice to any supplier of 

 water or other person subject to a national primary 

 drinking water regulation prescribed under section 

 300g-l of this title or applicable underground injec- 

 tion control progi'am (or person in charge of any 

 of the property of such supplier or other person), is 

 authorized to enter any establishment, facility, or 

 other property of such supplier or other person in 

 order to determine whether such supplier or other 



