Sec. 313. SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCE PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROGRAM

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## SEC. 313 SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCE PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROGRAM ###

(a)Establishment of Program The Secretary shall establish a pilot program for providing environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in south central Pennsylvania. Such assistance may be in the form of design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects in south central Pennsylvania, including projects for waste water treatment and related facilities, water supply, storage, treatment, and distribution facilities, and surface water resource protection and development. ###

(b)Public Ownership Requirement The Secretary may provide assistance for a project under this section only if the project is publicly owned. ###

(c)Consultation With SARCD Council In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall consult the SARCD Council. ###

(d)Local Cooperation Agreements ####

(1)In general Before providing assistance under this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a local cooperation agreement with a non-Federal interest to provide for design and construction of the project to be carried out with such assistance. ####

(2)Requirements Each local cooperation agreement entered into under this subsection shall provide for the following: #####

(A)Plan Development by the Secretary, in consultation with the SARCD Council and other appropriate Federal and State officials, of a facilities or resource protection and development plan, including appropriate engineering plans and specifications. #####

(B)Legal and institutional structures Establishment of each such legal and institutional structures as are necessary to assure the effective long-term operation of the project by the non-Federal interest. ####

(3)Cost-sharing Total project costs under each local cooperation agreement entered into under this subsection shall be shared at 75 percent Federal and 25 percent non-Federal. The non-Federal interest shall receive credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations toward its share of project costs but not to exceed 25 percent of total project costs. Operation and maintenance costs shall be 100 percent non-Federal. ###

(e)Applicability of Other Federal and State Laws Nothing in this section shall be construed as waiving, limiting, or otherwise affecting the applicability of any provision of Federal or State law which would otherwise apply to a project to be carried out with assistance provided under this section. ###

(f)Report Not later than December 31, 1998, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of the pilot program carried out under this section, together with recommendations concerning whether or not such program should be implemented on a national basis. ###

(g)Authorization and Allocation of Appropriations ####

(1)Authorization of appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $410,000,000 for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1992. Such sums shall remain available until expended. ####

(2)Allocation Funds appropriated to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 1993 through 1998 shall be expended as follows: 50 percent for providing assistance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed area of south central Pennsylvania and 50 percent for providing assistance in the Ohio River watershed area of south central Pennsylvania. ####

(3)Transfers The Secretary may expend up to 20 percent of the amounts required to be expended under paragraph

(2)for providing assistance in a watershed area for providing assistance in the other watershed area referred to in paragraph (2); except that the aggregate amount expended for providing assistance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed area for fiscal years 1993 through 1998 shall be 50 percent of the aggregate of the ftnds appropriated to carry out this section for such fiscal years. ####

(4)Corp of engineers expenses 10 percent of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2000 through 2002 may be used by the Corps of Engineers district offices to administer and implement projects under this section at 100 percent Federal expense. ###

(h)Definitions For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: ####

(1)SARCD council he term “SARCD Council” means the Southern Allegheny Resource Conservation and Development Council. ####

(2)South central pennsylvania The term “**south central Pennsylvania**” means Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Juniata, Somerset, Washington, Beaver, Jefferson, and Westmoreland Counties, Pennsylvania. * * * * * * *