NEW YORK BIGHT RESTORATION PLAN.

SEC. 2301. NEW YORK BIGHT RESTORATION PLAN. (a) In General.— Within 3 years after the effective date of this section, the Administrator, in consultation with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other Federal, State, and interstate agencies, shall prepare a New York Bight Restoration Plan. In preparing such plan, the Administrator shall seek the views and comments of interested persons and hold public hearings in States to be affected by the plan. The first such public hearing shall occur not later than 8 months after the effective date of this section. (b) Scope of Plan.— The New York Bight Restoration Plan prepared under subsection (a) shall, at a minimum— (1) identify and assess the impact of pollutant inputs, such as treated and untreated sewage discharge, industrial outfalls, agricultural and urban runoff, storm sewer overflow, upstream contaminant sources, atmospheric fallout, and dumping, that are affecting the water quality and marine resources of the New York Bight; (2) identify those uses in the New York Bight and other areas that are being adversely affected by such pollutant inputs; (3) determine the fate of the contaminants from such pollutant inputs and their effect on human health and the marine environment; (4) identify technologies and management practices necessary for controlling such pollutant inputs; (5) identify the costs of implementing such technologies and practices and any impediments to such implementation; 101 STAT. 1468 (6) devise a schedule of economically feasible projects to implement such technologies and practices and to remove such impediments; (7) develop recommendations for funding and coordinating the various Federal, State, and local government programs necessary to implement the projects referred to in paragraph (6); and (8) comprehensively assess alternatives to dumping of municipal sludge and the burning of timber in the New York Bight.