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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1977

91 STAT. 1574

33 USC 1284.

PUBLIC LAW 95-217—DEC. 27, 1977 interferes or is incompatible with, or contaminates or reduces the utility of the sludge of such works.". (c) Section 204(b)(1)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: "(which such portion, in the discretion of the applicant, may be recovered from industrial users of the total waste treatment system as distinguished from the treatment works for which the grant is made)". ALLOTMENT

Grant funds.

33 USC 1285.

33 USC 1287.

Funds, obligation. Reallotment.

Minimum State allotments.

Appropriation authorization.

SEC. 25. (a) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 205 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by striking out "June 30, 1972," and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1972, and before September 30, 1977,". (b) Such section 205 is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(c) Sums authorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 207 for the fiscal years during the period beginning October 1, 1977, and ending September 30, 1981, shall be allotted for each such year by the Administrator not later than the tenth day which begins after the date of enactment of the Clean Water Act of 1977. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sums authorized for the fiscal years ending September 30, 1978, September 30, 1979, September 30, 1980, and September 30, 1981, shall be allotted in accordance with table 3 of Committee Print Numbered 95-30 of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives. "(d) Sums allotted to the States for a fiscal year shall remain available for obligation for the fiscal year for which authorized and for the period of the next succeeding twelve months. The amount of any allotment not obligated by the end of such twenty-four-month period shall be immediately reallotted by the Administrator on the basis of the same ratio as applicable to sums allotted for the then current fiscal year, except that none of the funds reallotted by the Administrator for fiscal year 1978 and for fiscal years thereafter shall be allotted to any State which failed to obligate any of the funds being reailotted. Any sum made available to a State by reallotment under this subsection shall be in addition to any funds otherwise allotted to such State for grants under this title during any fiscal year. "(e) For the fiscal years 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981, no State shall receive less than one-half of 1 per centum of the total allotment under subsection (c) of this section, except that in the case of Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territories not more than thirty-three one-hundredths of 1 per centum in the aggregate shall be allotted to all four of these jurisdictions. For the purpose of carrying out this subsection there are authorized to be appropriated, subject to such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts, not to exceed $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1981. If for any fiscal year the ainount appropriated under authority of this subsection is less than the amount necessary to carry out this subsection, the amount each State receives under this subsection for such year shall bear the same ratio to the amount such State would have received under this subsection in such year if the amount necessary to carry it out had been appropriated as the amount appropriated for such year bears to the amount necessary to carry out this subsection for such year. "(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, sums made available between January 1, 1975, and March 1, 1975, by the