92 STAT. 74
Outstanding indebtedness, limitation.
Certification to Administrator.
42 USC 6907. Amount guaranteed, limitation.
Maturity, limitation.
Fees.
Nontransferability. Project agreements, administration. 42 USC 6901 note.
PUBLIC LAW 95-238—FEB. 25, 1978 tion and startup costs of demonstration facilities to generate desirable forms of energy (including synthetic fuels) from municipal or industrial waste, sewage sludge, or other municipal organic waste. With respect to a guarantee or a commitment to guarantee authorized by this subsection; the following subsections of this section shall not apply: (b)(1), (b)(5), (c)(2), (c)(5), (c)(6), (c)(7), (c)(8), (c)(9),(e)(3),(j),(k),and(q). "(2) In the case where the Administrator seeks to guarantee or to make commitments to guarantee as provided by this subsection he is authorized to incur an outstanding indebtedness which at no time shall exceed $300,000,000. "(3) The Administrator shall apply the following provisions thereto: " (A) With respect to any demonstration facility for the conversion of solid waste (as the term is defined in the Eesource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. 6903)), the Administrator, prior to issuing any guarantee under this section, must be in receipt of a certification from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and any appropriate State or areawide solid waste management planning agency that the proposed application for a guarantee is consistent with any applicable suggested guidelines published pursuant to section 1008(a) of the E«source Conservation and Recovery Act, and any applicable State or regional solid waste management plan. "(B) The amount guaranteed shall not exceed 75 per centum of the total cost of the commercial demonstration facility, as determined by the Administrator: Provided, That the amount guaranteed may not exceed 90 per centum of the total cost of the commercial demonstration facility during the period of construction and startup. "(C) The maximum maturity of the obligation shall not exceed thirty years, or 90 per centum of the projected useful economic life of the physical assets of the commercial demonstration facility covered by the guarantee, whichever is less, as determined by the Administrator. "(D) The Administrator shall charge and collect fees for guarantees of obligations in amounts sufficient in the judgment of the Administrator to cover the applicable administrative costs and probable losses on guaranteed obligations, but in any event not to exceed 1 per centum per annum of the outstanding indebtedness covered by the guarantee. " (E) No part of the program authorized by this section shall be transferred to any other agency or authority, except pursuant to Act of Congress enacted after the date of enactment of this section: Provided, That project agreements entered into pursuant to this section for any commercial demonstration facility for the conversion or bioconversion of solid waste (as that term is defined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) shall be administered in accordance with the May 7, 1976, Interagency Agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration on the Development of Energy From Solid Wastes, and provided specifically that in accordance with this agreement (i) for those energyrelated projects of mutual interest, planning will be conducted jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration, following which
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