SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1513

to seventy-five per centum (75%) of the eligible cost of the project
minus the maximum Federal grant for which the project would be
eligible if sufficient Federal funds were available, except that when
the size of the Federal grant is increased by the Secretary of the
Interior as the result of the project being in conformity with a
comprehensive plan for a standard metropolitan statistical area,
such increase shall not be used to decrease the amount of the out-
right State grant

2.   When for lack of adequate Federal funds at the time the peti-
tion is filed, the amount of Federal funds available for a grant is a
lesser per centum of the eligible cost of the project than that to
which it was found to be entitled under the provisions of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, the petition may include a request for
the advance payment of the Federal deficit, provided that the peti-
tioner shall contract to repay to the State for the deposit to the
Sanitary Sewerage Facilities Loan account all subsequent Federal
funds which the petitioner may receive to make up the original
Federal deficiency.

3.   When the petitioner has received a grant offer under the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act for a demonstration project, equal
to seventy-five per centum (75%) of the cost of the said project,
then the funds made available under this Act shall be allocated as
an outright State grant to the petitioner in an amount no greater
than twelve and one-half per centum (12½%) of the eligible cost.

(c)   Petitions in the first instance shall be directed to the State
Department of Health and upon approval by the Department shall
be forwarded to the State Board of Public Works, together with its
report that the project has been approved by the Department and
the lawful Federal authority under the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act. The report shall certify the sum of the outright State
grant and the sum which is required to advance all or part of the
Federal grant for which the project is eligible and must incorporate
a recommendation that the Board of Public Works shall make avail-
able the necessary funds as provided hereunder.

(d)   The Board of Public Works shall allocate from monies avail-
able under this Act, to every county, municipality, or any agency
thereof, or any special governmental agency which is charged with
providing a sanitary facility, whose plan is approved, the sum rec-
ommended by the State Department of Health. The Board of Public
Works shall certify the allocation of State funds to the Treasurer
of the State and the Treasurer shall make them available to the local
governments and agencies which submitted the petitions, when
needed for the construction of the respective projects.

(e)   The Board of Public Works is authorized, in its discretion,
to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for receiving such
petitions from local governments and agencies in this State, and for
the consideration of the petitions and disbursing of the funds to
the petitioning local governmental units and agencies, within the
spirit and intent of this Act

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That until all of the interest
on and principals of any Certificates issued under this Act have been
paid in full, there is hereby levied and imposed an annual State tax
on each One Hundred Dollars ($100) of assessable property at the