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[CITE: 42USC4370d]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 55--NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 4370d. Percentage of Federal funding for organizations 
        owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals
        
    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall, on 
and after October 6, 1992, to the fullest extent possible, ensure that 
at least 8 per centum of Federal funding for prime and subcontracts 
awarded in support of authorized programs, including grants, loans, and 
contracts for wastewater treatment and leaking underground storage tanks 
grants, be made available to business concerns or other organizations 
owned or controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged 
individuals (within the meaning of section 637(a)(5) and (6) of title 
15), including historically black colleges and universities. For 
purposes of this section, economically and socially disadvantaged 
individuals shall be deemed to include women.

(Pub. L. 102-389, title III, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1602.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Departments of Veterans Affairs 
and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1993, and not as part of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.
