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1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter-municipal, interstate, or State
agencies or nonprofit entities for projects that provide treatment
for or that minimize sewage or stormwater discharges using one
or more approaches which include, but are not limited to, decentral-
ized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized wastewater
treatment, low-impact development practices, conservation ease-
ments, stream buffers, or wetlands restoration; $850,000,000 shall
be for capitalization grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving
Funds under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as
amended, except that, notwithstanding section 1452(n) of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, as amended, none of the funds made available
under this heading in this Act, or in previous appropriations Acts,
shall be reserved by the Administrator for health effects studies
on drinking water contaminants; $50,000,000 shall be for architec-
tural, engineering, planning, design, construction and related activi-
ties in connection with the construction of high priority water
and wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico
Border, after consultation with the appropriate border commission;
$45,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska to address
drinking water and waste infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska
Native Villages: Provided, That, of these funds: (1) the State of
Alaska shall provide a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than
5 percent of the funds may be used for administrative and overhead
expenses; and (3) not later than October 1, 2005 the State of
Alaska shall make awards consistent with the State-wide priority
list established in 2004 for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and
similar projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are funded
under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development
Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which shall allocate not less than
25 percent of the funds provided for projects in regional hub commu-
nities; $4,000,000 shall be for remediation of above ground leaking
fuel tanks pursuant to Public Law 106–554; $309,925,000 shall
be for making grants for the construction of drinking water, waste-
water and storm water infrastructure and for water quality protec-
tion in accordance with the terms and conditions specified for such
grants in the joint explanatory statement of the managers accom-
panying this Act, and, for purposes of these grants, each grantee
shall contribute not less than 45 percent of the cost of the project
unless the grantee is approved for a waiver by the Agency;
$90,000,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency agree-
ments, and associated program support costs; $7,500,000 for a cost-
shared grant program to school districts for necessary upgrades
of their diesel bus fleets; and $1,145,757,000 shall be for grants,
including associated program support costs, to States, federally
recognized tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollu-
tion control agencies for multi-media or single media pollution
prevention, control and abatement and related activities, including
activities pursuant to the provisions set forth under this heading
in Public Law 104–134, and for making grants under section 103
of the Clean Air Act for particulate matter monitoring and data
collection activities of which and subject to terms and conditions
specified by the Administrator, of which $50,000,000 shall be for
carrying out section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, and $19,500,000
shall be for Environmental Information Exchange Network grants,
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including associated program support costs, and $18,000,000 shall
be for making competitive targeted watershed grants: Provided
further, That for fiscal year 2005, State authority under section
302(a) of Public Law 104–182 shall remain in effect: Provided
further, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Act, the
limitation on the amounts in a State water pollution control
revolving fund that may be used by a State to administer the
fund shall not apply to amounts included as principal in loans
made by such fund in fiscal year 2005 and prior years where
such amounts represent costs of administering the fund to the
extent that such amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the
Administrator, accounted for separately from other assets in the
fund, and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including adminis-
tration: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2005, and notwith-
standing section 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is authorized
to use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal year under section
319 of that Act to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant to sections
319(h) and 518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That for fiscal
year 2005, notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section
518(c) of the Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appro-
priated for State Revolving Funds under title VI of that Act may
be reserved by the Administrator for grants under section 518(c)
of such Act: Provided further, That no funds provided by this
legislation to address the water, wastewater and other critical infra-
structure needs of the colonias in the United States along the
United States-Mexico border shall be made available to a county
or municipal government unless that government has established
an enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning rule, which prevents
in that jurisdiction the development or construction of any addi-
tional colonia areas, or the development within an existing colonia
the construction of any new home, business, or other structure
which lacks water, wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure:
Provided further, That the referenced statement of the managers
under this heading in Public Law 108–7, in reference to item
number 471, is deemed to be amended by striking everything after
‘‘for’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘for water infrastructure improve-
ments’’: Provided further, That the referenced statement of the
managers under this heading in Public Law 108–199, in reference
to item number 22, is deemed to be amended by striking everything
after ‘‘22.’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘$200,000 to Jackson County,
Alabama, for water system improvements and $200,000 to the City
of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for water and sewer infrastructure
improvements’’: Provided further, That the referenced statement
of the managers under this heading in Public Law 108–199, in
reference to item number 158, is deemed to be amended by inserting
‘‘water and’’ after ‘‘for’’: Provided further, That the referenced state-
ment of the managers under this heading in Public Law 107–
73 is deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘Southeast’’ in reference
to item 9 and inserting ‘‘Southwest’’: Provided further, That the
referenced statement of the managers under this heading in Public
Law 107–73, in reference to item number 103, is deemed to be
amended by striking everything after the word ‘‘for’’, and adding,
‘‘the City of Chicago, Illinois for water infrastructure improvements
at the Thomas Jefferson and Lakeview Pumping Stations’’: Provided
further, That the referenced statement of the managers under this
heading in Public Law 108–199, in reference to item number 484,
is deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘City of Norfolk’’ and inserting