42 U.S.C. § 7616 — Sewage treatment grants

(a) General rule. The Administrator^* may not withhold, condition, or restrict a grant for constructing sewage treatment^* works in a State^* area based on a requirement of this chapter, except as subsection (b) allows.

(b) Exceptions. The Administrator may withhold, condition, or restrict the grant only if the Administrator determines that the treatment works will not comply with applicable section 7411 or 7412 standards; the State lacks, or is not carrying out, an approved implementation plan that expressly quantifies and provides for the increase in each air pollutant’s emissions from stationary and mobile sources in an area covered by part C or part D of subchapter I, when that increase may reasonably be expected to result directly or indirectly from the new sewage capacity; the new capacity may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute, directly or indirectly, to emissions above the increase provided for the area, or otherwise would not conform to the applicable implementation plan^*; or the emissions increase would interfere with or be inconsistent with another State’s applicable implementation plan. For treatment-works construction that would directly or indirectly increase emissions from stationary and mobile sources in a part D area, the emissions calculation under the State-plan condition must include emissions directly or indirectly resulting from areawide and nonmajor stationary-source growth (mobile and stationary) for that area.

(c) National Environmental Policy Act. Nothing in this section amends or alters the National Environmental Policy Act or affects a determination whether that Act’s requirements were met for construction of sewage treatment works.