18 of the act are amended to read:
Section 17. Grants and reimbursements to municipalities and
counties.
(a) The Department of Environmental [Resources] Protection
is authorized to administer grants to municipalities and
counties to assist or reimburse them for costs in preparing
official storm water management plans and actual administrative
and enforcement and implementation costs and revisions to
official plans for storm water management required by this act.
Grants and reimbursements shall be made from and to the extent
of funds appropriated by the General Assembly for such purposes,
and shall be made in accordance to rules and regulations adopted
by the Environmental Quality Board.
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(c) If, in any fiscal year, appropriations are insufficient
to cover the costs or grants and reimbursement to all
municipalities and counties eligible for such grants and
reimbursements in that fiscal year, the Department of
Environmental [Resources] Protection shall report such fact to
the General Assembly and shall request appropriation of funds
necessary to provide the grants authorized in this section. If
such a deficiency appropriation is not enacted, any municipality
or county which has not received the full amount of the grant
for which it is eligible under this section shall be as a first
priority reimbursed from appropriations made in the next
successive fiscal year.
Section 18. Appropriations.
The sum of $500,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated for the fiscal period beginning July 1,
1978, and ending June 30, 1979, to the Department of
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