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and local personnel to carry out plans assisted 

 under this Act and other solid waste and re- 

 source recovery programs; 



"(2) means of using existing training pro- 

 grams to train such personnel; and 



"(3) the extent and nature of obstacles to 



employment and occupational advancement in 



the solid waste disposal and resource recovery 



field which may limit either available manpower 



or the advancement of personnel in such fields. 



He shall report the results of such investigation 



and study, including his recommendations to the 



President and the Congress. 



"payments 



"Sec 7008. (a) General Rule.— Payments of 

 grants under this Act may be made (after necessary 

 adjustment on account of previously made under- 

 payments or overpayments) in advance or by way 

 of reimbursement, and in such installments and 

 on such conditions as the Administrator may deter- 

 mine. 



"(b) Prohibition. — No grant may be made under 

 this Act to any private profltmaking organization. 



"LABOR STANDARDS 



"Sec 7009. No agent for a project of construction 

 under this Act shall be made unless the Secretary 

 finds that the application contains or is supported 

 by reasonable assurance that all laborers and 

 mechanics employed by contractors or subcon- 

 tractors on projects of the type covered by the 

 Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a — 

 276a-5) , will be paid wages at rates not less than 

 those prevailing on similar work in the locality as 

 determined by the Secretary of Labor in accord- 

 ance with that Act; and the Secretary of Labor 

 shall have with respect to the labor standards 

 specified in this section the authority and func- 

 tions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 

 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 5 U.S.C. 133z-5) and sec- 

 tion 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 

 U.S.C. 276c) . 



"Subtitle H — Research, Development, Demonstra- 

 tion, and Information 



"RESEARCH, DEMONSTRATIONS, TRAINING, AND OTHER 

 ACTIVITIES 



"Sec 8001. (a) General Authority. — The Ad- 

 ministrator, alone or after consultation with the 

 Administrator of the Federal Energy Administra- 

 tion, the Administrator of the Energy Research 

 and Development Administration, or the Chairman 

 of the Federal Power Commission, shall conduct, 

 and encourage, cooperate with, and render finan- 

 cial and other assistance to appropriate public 

 (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) au- 

 thorities, agencies, and institutions, private agen- 

 cies and institutions, and individuals in the con- 

 duct of, and promote the coordination of, research, 

 investigations, experiments, training, demonstra- 

 tions, surveys, public education programs, and 

 studies relating to — 



" ( 1) any adverse health and welfare effects of 

 the release into the environment of material 

 present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate 

 such effects; 



"(2) the operation and financing of solid waste 

 disposal prograjiis; 



"(3) the planning, implementation, and opera- 

 tion of resource recovery and resoxirce conserva- 

 tion systems and hazardous waste management 

 systems. Including the marketing of recovered 

 resources; 



"(4) the production of usable forms of recov- 

 ered resources, including fuel, from solid waste; 



" (5) the reduction of the amoxmt of such waste 

 and unsalvageable waste materials; 



"(6) the development and application of new 

 and improved methods of collecting and dispos- 

 ing of solid waste and processing and recovering 

 materials and energy from solid wastes; 



"(7) the identification of solid waste compo- 

 nents and potential materials and energy recov- 

 erable from such waste components; 



"(8) small scale and low technology solid waste 

 management systems, including but not limited 

 to, resource recovery source separation ssrstems; 



"(9) methods to improve the performance 

 characteristics of resources recovered from solid 

 waste and the relationship of such performance 

 characteristics to available and potentially avail- 

 able markets for such resouxxses; 



"(10) improvements In land disposal practices 

 for solid waste (including sludge) which may 

 reduce the adverse environmental effects of such 

 disposal and other aspects of solid waste disposal 

 on land, including means for reducing the harm- 

 ful environmental effects of earlier and existing 

 landfills, means for restoring areas damaged by 

 such earlier or existing landfills, means for ren- 

 dering landfills safe for purposes of construction 

 and other uses, and techniques of recovering 

 materials and energy from landfills; 



"(11) methods for the sound disposal of, or 

 recovery of resources. Including energy, from, 

 sludge (Including sludge from pollution control 

 and treatment facilities, coal slurry pipelines, and 

 other sources) ; 



"(12) methods of hazardous waste manage- 

 ment, including methods of rendering such waste 

 environmentally safe; and 



"(13) any adverse effects on air quality (par- 

 ticularly with regard to the emission of heavy 

 metals) which result from solid waste which Is 

 burned (either alone or In conjunction with 

 other substances) for purposes of disposal or 

 energy recovery. 



"(b) Management Program. — (l) (A) In carrying 

 out his functions pursuant to this Act, and any 

 other Federal legislation respecting solid waste or 

 discarded material research, development, and 

 demonstrations, the Administrator shall establish a 

 management program or system to insure the coor- 

 dination of all such activities and to facilitate and 

 accelerate the process of development of soimd new 



