- United States Code
- TITLE 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
- CHAPTER 26 - WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- SUBCHAPTER I - RESEARCH AND RELATED PROGRAMS
Sec. 1266. Hudson River reclamation demonstration project
- (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 1285(a) of this title, 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 provide the remainder 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 1285(a) of this title 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 1265 or 1321 of this
title 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 1375(b) of this title. The Administrator
may not obligate or expend more than $20,000,000 to carry out this
section.
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