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PUBLIC LAW 92-500~OCT. 18, 1972 •
[86 STAT.
through (K) of paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be develoi3ed and submitted by the Governor to the Administrator for application to all regions within such State. ^ Regional " (c)(1) The Governor of each State, in consultation with the planc i e s designation, ning agency designated under subsection (a) of this section, at the time a plan is submitted 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 designation, 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 area wide waste treatment management plan developed under subsection (b) of this section; " (B) to manage effectively waste treatment works and related facilities serving such area in conformance with any plan re(^uired by subsection (b) of this section; " (C) directly or by contract, to design and construct 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 an;v source, for waste treatment management purposes; " (E) to raise revenues, including the assessment of waste treatment charges; " (F) to incur short- and long-term indebtedness; " (G) to assure in implementation of an areawide waste treatment management plan that each participating 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) After a waste treatment management agency having the ' authority required by subsection (c) has been designated under such subsection 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 construction of a publicly owned treatment works under section 201(g)(1) within such area except to such designated agency and for works in conformity with such plan. " (e) No permit under section 402 of this Act shall be issued for any point source which is in conflict with a plan approved pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. '^' "(f)(1) The Administrator shall make grants to any agency designated under subsection (a) of this section for payment of the reasonable costs of developing and operating a continuing areawide waste treatment management planning process under subsection (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 section 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 succeeding fiscal year.
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