33 U.S.C. § 1258 — Pollution control in the Great Lakes

(a) The Administrator may cooperate with Federal departments and enter agreements with States, local governments, interstate agencies, other public agencies, or combinations of them for projects showing new methods and preliminary plans to eliminate or control pollution^* in Great Lakes watersheds. Projects must show engineering and economic feasibility of removing pollutants, preventing future pollution, and using other reduction or remedial methods. (b) Federal participation requires the participating public bodies to pay at least 25 percent of actual costs. Payment may be land or an interest in land needed for the project, personal property, or services valued by the Administrator. (c) Congress authorizes $20 million, available until spent, for (a) and (b). (d)(1) Because of Lake Erie's serious condition, the Army Secretary, through the Chief of Engineers, must design and develop a wastewater-management demonstration program to rehabilitate and repair the lake environmentally. Before detailed engineering and design, the program, the Chief's recommendations, and financing recommendations must go to Congress for statutory approval. This authority supplements, rather than replaces, other studies aimed at pollution from selected Lake Erie sources. (2) The program must be developed with EPA, interested Federal bodies, States, and local governments. It must present regional wastewater-management alternatives and give State^* and local governments choices of treatment systems, including advanced treatment and land disposal with aerated treatment and spray irrigation, plus solid-waste and sludge disposal. It should address point sources; area sources such as acid-mine drainage and urban and rural runoff; and in-place sources such as bottom loads, sludge banks, and polluted harbor dredgings. (e) Congress authorizes $5 million, available until spent, for (d).