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of the brownfields program under the Small Business Liability
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency shall certify grant amend-
ments for grant numbers C–340461–02 and C–340461–03.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation,
and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project,
$36,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2004.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration,
and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or for use by,
the Environmental Protection Agency, $42,918,000, to remain avail-
able until expended.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), as amended, including sections 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6),
and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000
per project; $1,272,888,000, to remain available until expended,
consisting of $636,444,000, as authorized by section 517(a) of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA),
as amended by Public Law 101–508, and $636,444,000 as a payment
from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund for
purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as amended:
Provided, That funds appropriated under this heading may be allo-
cated to other Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a)
of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under
this heading, $12,742,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of
Inspector General’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2004, and $86,168,000 shall be transferred to the
‘‘Science and technology’’ appropriation to remain available until
September 30, 2004.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground stor-
age tank cleanup activities authorized by section 205 of the Super-
fund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and for
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $72,313,000, to remain
available until expended.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$15,581,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund,
to remain available until expended.
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STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance,
including capitalization grants for State revolving funds and
performance partnership grants, $3,859,994,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,350,000,000 shall be for making
capitalization grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds
under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended (the ‘‘Act’’), of which up to $75,000,000 shall be available
for loans, including interest free loans as authorized by 33 U.S.C.
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;
$43,000,000 shall be for grants to the State of Alaska to address
drinking water and wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and
Alaska Native Villages; $3,000,000 shall be for remediation of above
ground leaking fuel tanks pursuant to Public Law 106–554;
$314,887,000 shall be for making grants for the construction of
drinking water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure and
for water quality protection in accordance with the terms and
conditions specified for such grants in the joint explanatory state-
ment of the managers accompanying this Act; $8,225,000 for grants
for construction of alternative decentralized wastewater facilities
under the National Decentralized Wastewater Demonstration pro-
gram, in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in
the joint explanatory statement of the managers accompanying
this Act; $90,500,000 shall be to carry out section 104(k) of the
Comprehensive 
Environmental 
Response, 
Compensation, 
and
Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including grants,
interagency agreements, and associated program support costs; and
$1,150,382,000 shall be for grants, including associated program
support costs, to States, federally recognized tribes, interstate agen-
cies, tribal consortia, and air pollution 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 subject to terms and condi-
tions specified by the Administrator, of which $50,000,000 shall
be for carrying out section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, and
$19,999,900 shall be for Environmental Information Exchange Net-
work grants, including associated program support costs: Provided,
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That for fiscal year 2003, 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 2003 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 administration: Provided
further, That for fiscal year 2003, and notwithstanding 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 2003,
notwithstanding the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of
the Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appropriated
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 infrastructure
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 jurisdic-
tion the development or construction of any additional 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 statements of the managers under this heading
in Public Laws 105–276, 106–74, and 106–377 are deemed to be
amended by striking everything after ‘‘Creek’’ in reference to item
numbers 27, 38, and 59, respectively, and inserting, ‘‘and the Upper
Ocmulgee River Watersheds, Georgia’’: Provided further, That the
referenced statement of the managers under this heading in Public
Law 107–73 is deemed to be amended by adding the words ‘‘water
and’’ before the word ‘‘wastewater’’ in reference to item number
205: Provided further, That the referenced statement of the man-
agers under this heading in Public Law 106–74 is deemed to be
amended by striking everything after ‘‘improvement’’ in reference
to item number 137 and inserting, ‘‘and extensions to the Indian
Ridge Industrial Park;’’: 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 everything after ‘‘waste-
water’’ in reference to item number 103 and inserting, ‘‘and drinking
water infrastructure improvements;’’: Provided further, That the
referenced statement of the managers under this heading in Public
Law 107–73 is deemed to be amended by striking everything after
‘‘for’’ in reference to item number 283 and inserting, ‘‘the Mount
Pleasant Waterworks Commission, South Carolina, for the Snowden
Community Wastewater Collection Project;’’: Provided further, That
the referenced statement of the managers under this heading in
Public Law 106–377 is deemed to be amended in reference to
item number 216 by inserting before the period, ‘‘, and, after Feb-
ruary 1, 2003, any remaining unobligated funds to the City of
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Wendover, Utah for water and wastewater infrastructure improve-
ments’’.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
For fiscal year 2003, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 6303(1) and
6305(1), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
in carrying out the Agency’s function to implement directly Federal
environmental programs required or authorized by law in the
absence of an acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative
agreements to federally-recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal con-
sortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist the Adminis-
trator in implementing Federal environmental programs for Indian
Tribes required or authorized by law, except that no such coopera-
tive agreements may be awarded from funds designated for State
financial assistance agreements.
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available
by this Act shall be used to promulgate a final regulation to imple-
ment changes in the payment of pesticide tolerance processing
fees as proposed at 64 Fed. Reg. 31040, or any similar proposals.
The Environmental Protection Agency may proceed with the
development of such a rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency may not use any of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to
implement the Registration Fee system codified at 40 Code of
Federal Regulations Subpart U (sections 152.400 et seq.) if its
authority to collect maintenance fees pursuant to FIFRA section
4(i)(5) is extended for at least 1 year beyond September 30, 2002.
Section 136a–1 of title 7, U.S.C. is amended—
(1) in subsection (i)(5)(C)(i) by striking ‘‘$17,000,000 fiscal
year 2002’’ and inserting ‘‘$21,500,000 for fiscal year 2003’’;
(2) in subsection (i)(5)(H) by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting
‘‘2003’’;
(3) in subsection (i)(6) by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting
‘‘2003’’; and
(4) in subsection (k)(3)(A) by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting
‘‘2003’’.
As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
shall enter into a cooperative agreement with the National Academy
of Sciences to evaluate the impact of the final rule relating to
prevention of significant deterioration and nonattainment new
source review, published at 67 Fed. Reg. 80186 (December 31,
2002). The study shall include—
(1) increases or decreases in emissions of pollutants regu-
lated under the New Source Review program;
(2) impacts on human health;
(3) pollution control and prevention technologies installed
after the effective date of the rule at facilities covered under
the rulemaking;
(4) increases or decreases in efficiency of operations,
including energy efficiency, at covered facilities; and
(5) other relevant data.
The National Academy of Sciences shall submit an interim
report to Congress no later than March 3, 2004, and shall submit
a final report on implementation of the rules.