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           The State Bond Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to issue revenue bonds or other special obligations, herein referred to as “bonds”, not in excess of twenty million dollars, to provide funds to be used for the purpose of supplementing grant offers made pursuant to Federal Water Quality Administration requirements to parishes, municipalities, municipal or parochial sewerage districts, and any agency, board, commission, or combination thereof that provide sanitary sewerage collection and/or treatment facilities, herein referred to as “political subdivisions”. The bonds or other obligations shall be issued from time to time as funds are needed to pay the cost of state participation in Federal Water Quality Administration projects or to refund to the political subdivision any funds it has provided for the project in anticipation of state participation, as hereinafter provided. Said bonds shall be in such series and form and for such term, not exceeding thirty years, and shall bear such rate of interest as shall be determined by the State Bond Commission; however, no bonds shall be issued for any project by the State Bond Commission unless there has been made on behalf of the political subdivision the certification provided in La. Rev. Stat. 40:2322. In the issuance and sale of said bonds, the State Bond Commission, to the extent possible, shall comply with the provisions of Acts 26 and 27 of the 1968 Extraordinary Session, provided, that the resolution under which the bonds shall be issued may contain such covenants and agreements with respect to the security and payment of the bonds as is deemed necessary by the State Bond Commission to insure the marketability of the bonds herein authorized to be issued and any similar bonds to be issued in the future which are authorized by the Legislature for such purpose. The state treasurer shall apply the proceeds derived from the sale and issuance of said bonds to pay the state’s cost of participating in the construction of water quality control projects which may qualify for federal aid and assistance under the provisions of Title 33, Section 1251, et seq., of the United States Code Annotated, as the same now exists or as may hereafter be amended; provided that the state’s participation in the cost of such water quality control projects shall not exceed twenty-five percentum of the cost thereof as said cost is approved by the Federal Water Quality Administration and used as the basis for determining federal participation on the project; and provided further that no contracts shall be awarded for the construction of such projects without the approval of the Louisiana Department of Health. In the establishment of priorities of projects, relative need and standards of construction, the Louisiana Department of Health shall work in conjunction with the appropriate federal agencies and shall apply regulations consistent with the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; provided, however, it shall have the power to adopt such rules, regulations, and procedures as shall be necessary for the effective administration thereof. Provided that petitioner files an application for a federal grant and meets all other conditions and requirements for a federal grant and more particularly the provisions of Section 8(b)(7) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended.¹

           Acts 1970, No. 171, §4, emerg. eff. June 29, 1970 at 7:00 P.M. Amended by Acts 1971, No. 146, §1; Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978.

¹Prior to 1972, 33 U.S.C.A. §1158(b)(7). Now see 38 U.S.C.A. §§1251 et seq., 1282.