§7616 Sewage Treatment Grants

Summary

The Administrator cannot refuse, limit, or add conditions to a grant for building sewage treatment works because of this chapter, except in the specific cases listed below. The Administrator may withhold, limit, or condition a construction grant only if they find that: the treatment works will not meet the standards in section 7411 or 7412 of this title; the State does not have, or is not carrying out, an approved State implementation plan that clearly measures and accounts for the increase in each air pollutant from stationary and mobile sources in any area where part C or part D of subchapter I applies that could result from the new sewage treatment capacity; the new capacity would likely cause emissions higher than those allowed by that plan or would not fit the plan; or the emissions increase would conflict with another State’s implementation plan. For areas covered by part D, the required emissions accounting must include growth from areawide and nonmajor stationary sources (mobile and stationary). Nothing here changes or affects the National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) or decisions under that Act.