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[CITE: 42USC7406]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 85--AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
 
              Part A--Air Quality and Emission Limitations
 
Sec. 7406. Interstate air quality agencies; program cost 
        limitations
        
    For the purpose of developing implementation plans for any 
interstate air quality control region designated pursuant to section 
7407 of this title or of implementing section 7506a of this title 
(relating to control of interstate air pollution) or section 7511c of 
this title (relating to control of interstate ozone pollution), the 
Administrator is authorized to pay, for two years, up to 100 per centum 
of the air quality planning program costs of any commission established 
under section 7506a of this title (relating to control of interstate air 
pollution) or section 7511c of this title (relating to control of 
interstate ozone pollution) or any agency designated by the Governors of 
the affected States, which agency shall be capable of recommending to 
the Governors plans for implementation of national primary and secondary 
ambient air quality standards and shall include representation from the 
States and appropriate political subdivisions within the air quality 
control region. After the initial two-year period the Administrator is 
authorized to make grants to such agency or such commission in an amount 
up to three-fifths of the air quality implementation program costs of 
such agency or commission.

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, Sec. 106, as added Pub. L. 90-148, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 490; amended Pub. L. 91-604, Sec. 3(c), 
Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1677; Pub. L. 101-549, title I, Sec. 102(f)(2), 
title VIII, Sec. 802(f), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2420, 2688.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 1857c-1 of this title.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 106 of act July 14, 1955, was renumbered section 117 
by Pub. L. 91-604 and is classified to section 7417 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1990--Pub. L. 101-549, Sec. 102(f)(2)(A), inserted ``or of 
implementing section 7506a of this title (relating to control of 
interstate air pollution) or section 7511c of this title (relating to 
control of interstate ozone pollution)'' after ``section 7407 of this 
title''.
    Pub. L. 101-549, Sec. 102(f)(2)(B), which directed insertion of 
``any commission established under section 7506a of this title (relating 
to control of interstate air pollution) or section 7511c of this title 
(relating to control of interstate ozone pollution) or'' after ``program 
costs of'', was executed by making the insertion after that phrase the 
first place it appeared to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
    Pub. L. 101-549, Sec. 102(f)(2)(C), which directed insertion of ``or 
such commission'' after ``such agency'' in last sentence, was executed 
by making insertion after ``such agency'' the first place it appeared in 
the last sentence to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
    Pub. L. 101-549, Secs. 102(f)(2)(D), 802(f), substituted ``three-
fifths of the air quality implementation program costs of such agency or 
commission'' for ``three-fourths of the air quality planning program 
costs of such agency''.
    1970--Pub. L. 91-604 struck out designation ``(a)'', substituted 
provisions authorizing Federal grants for the purpose of developing 
implementation plans and provisions requiring the designated State 
agency to be capable of recommending plans for implementation of 
national primary and secondary ambient air quality standards, for 
provisions authorizing Federal grants for the purpose of expediting the 
establishment of air quality standards and provisions requiring the 
designated State agency to be capable of recommending standards of air 
quality and plans for implementation thereof, respectively, and struck 
out subsec. (b) which authorized establishment of air quality planning 
commissions.
