PUBLIC LAW 96-483—OCT. 21, 1980
94 STAT. 2363
reimbursement for the portion of the Federal share reduced in any such State.". (b) The first sentence of section 202(a)(2) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by inserting before the period a comma and the following: "unless modified by the Governor of the State with the concurrence of the Administrator to a percentage rate no less than 15 per centum greater than the modified uniform percentage rate in which the Administrator has concurred pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection". SEC. 10. Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
33 USC 1282.
HUDSON RIVER PCB RECLAMATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
"SEC. 116. (a) The Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts and other agreements with the State of New York to carry out a project to demonstrate methods for the selective removal of polychlorinated biphenyls contaminating bottom sediments of the Hudson River, treating such sediments as required, burying such sediments in secure landfills, and installing monitoring systems for such landfills. Such demonstration project shall be for the purpose of determining the feasibility of indefinite storage in secure landfills of toxic substances and of ascertaining the improvement of the rate of recovery of a toxic contaminated national waterway. No pollutants removed pursuant to this paragraph shall be placed in any landfill unless the Administrator first determines that disposal of the pollutants in such landfill would provide a higher standard of protection of the public health, safety, and welfare than disposal of such pollutants by any other method including, but not limited to, incineration or a chemical destruction process. "(b) The Administrator is authorized to make grants to the State of New York to carry out this section from funds allotted to such State under section 205(a) of this Act, except that the amount of any such grant shall be equal to 75 per centum of the cost of the project and such grant shall be made on condition that non-Federal sources provideterminer of the cost of such project. The authority of this section shall be available until September 30, 1983. Funds allotted to the State of New York under section 205(a) shall be available under this subsection only to the extent that funds are not available, as determined by the Administrator, to the State of New York for the work authorized by this section under section 115 or 311 of this Act or a comprehensive hazardous substance response and clean up fund. Any funds used under the authority of this subsection shall be deducted from any estimate of the needs of the State of New York prepared under section 616(b) of this Act. The Administrator may not obligate or expend more than $20,000,000 to carry out this section.". SEC. 11. The first sentence of section 205(g)(1) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by inserting "of the amount authorized under section 207 of this title for purposes" after "2 per centum". SEC. 12. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to make grants to States to undertake a demonstration program for the cleanup of State-owned abandoned mines which can be used as hazardous waste disposal sites. The State shall pay 10 per centum of project costs. At a minimum, the Administrator shall undertake projects under such program in the States of Ohio, Illinois, and West Virginia. There are authorized to be
Contracts and agreements. 33 USC 1266.
Grants. 33 USC 1285.
33 USC 1265, 1321.
33 USC 1285.
eieanup grants. 33 USC 1257a.
Appropriation authorization.
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