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Federal, State, and local authorities and other 

 persons. 



"(2) Information in the central reference li- 

 brary shall, to the extent practicable, be collated, 

 analyzed, verified, and published and shall be made 

 available to State and locsil governments and other 

 r>ersons at reasonable times and subject to such 

 reasonable charges as may be necessary to defray 

 expenses of making such information available. 



"(c) Model Accounting System. — In order to 

 assist State and local governments in determining 

 the cost and revenues associated with the collec- 

 tion and disposal of solid waste and with resource 

 recovery op>erations, the Administrator shall de- 

 velop and publish a recommended model cost and 

 revenue accounting system apllcable to the solid 

 waste management functions of State and local 

 governments. Such system shall be in accordance 

 with generally accepted accounting principles. The 

 Administrator shall periodically, but not less fre- 

 quently than once every five years, review such 

 accounting system and revise it as necessary. 



"(d) Model Codes. — The Administrator is au- 

 thorized, in cooperation with appropriate State and 

 local agencies, to recommend model codes, ordi- 

 nances, and statutes, providing for sound solid 

 waste management. 



"(e) Information Psograms. — (1) The Admin- 

 istrator shall implement a program for the rapid 

 dissemination of information on solid waste man- 

 agement, hazardous waste management, resource 

 conservation, and methods of resource recovery 

 from solid waste, including the results of any rele- 

 vant research, investigations, experiments, surveys, 

 studies, or other Information which may be useful 

 in the implementation of new or improved solid 

 waste management practices and methods and in- 

 formation on any other technical, managerial, fi- 

 nancial, or market aspect of resource conservation 

 and recovery facilities. 



"(2) The Administrator shall develop and imple- 

 ment educational programs to promote citizen urt- 

 derstanding of the need for environmentally sound 

 solid waste management practices. 



"(f) Coordination. — ^In collecting and dissem- 

 inating information under this section, the Ad- 

 ministrator shall coordinate his actions and coop- 

 erate to the maximum extent possible with State 

 and local authorities. 



"(g) Special Restriction. — Upon request, the full 

 range of alternative technologies, programs or 

 processes deemed feasible to meet the resource re- 

 covery or resource conservation needs of a jurisdic- 

 tion shall be described in such a manner as to pro- 

 vide a suflBcient evaluative basis from which the 

 jurisdiction can make its decisions, but no ofBcer 

 or employee of the Enironmental Protection Agency 

 shall, in an official capacity, lobby for or otherwise 

 represent an agency position in favor of resource 

 recovery or resource conservation, as a pHJiicy al- 

 ternative for adoption into ordinances, codes, regu- 

 lations, or law by any State or political subdivision 

 thereof. 



"FULL-SCALE DEMONSTRATION FACTLITIES 



"Sec. 8004. (a) Authority. — The Administrator 

 may enter into contracts with public agencies or 

 authorities or private persons for the construc- 

 tion and operation of a full-scale demonstration 

 facility under this Act, or provide financial assist- 

 ance in the form of grants to a full-scale demon- 

 stration facility under this Act only if the Admin- 

 istrator finds that — 



"(1) such facility or proposed facility will dem- 

 onstrate at full scale a new or significantly im- 

 proved technology or process, a practical and 

 significant improvement in discarded material 

 management practice, or the technological 

 feasibility and cost effectiveness of an existing, 

 but unproven technology, process, or practice, 

 and will not duplicate any other Federal, State, 

 local, or commercial facility which has been con- 

 structed or with respect to which construction 

 nas begun (determined as of the date action is 

 taken by the Administrator under this Act), 



"(2) such contract or assistance meets the re- 

 quirements of section 8001 and meets other ap- 

 plicable requirements of the Act, 



"(3) such facility will be able to comply with 

 the guidelines published under section 1008 and 

 with other laws and regulations for the protec- 

 tion of health and the environment, 



"(4) In the case of a contract for construction 

 or operation, such facility is not likely to be con- 

 structed or operated by State, local, or private 

 persons or in the case of an application for finan- 

 cial assistance, such facility is not likely to re- 

 ceive adequate financial assistance from other 

 sources, and 



"(5) any Federal interest in, or assistance to, 

 such facility will be disposed of or terminated, 

 with appropriate compensation, within such pe- 

 riod of time as may be necessary to carry out the 

 basic objectives of this Act. 



"(b) Time Limitation. — No obligation may be 

 made by the Administration for financial assist- 

 ance under this subtitle for any full-scale demon- 

 stration facility after the date ten years after the 

 enactment of this section. No expenditure of funds 

 for any such full-scale demonstration facility un- 

 der this subtitle may be made by the Administrator 

 after the date fourteen years after such date of 

 enactment. 



"(c) Cost Sharing. — ^Whenever practicable. In 

 constructing, operating, or providing financial 

 assistance under this subtitle to a full-scale dem- 

 onstration facility, the Administrator shall en- 

 deavor to enter into agreements and make other 

 arrangements for maximum practicable cost shar- 

 ing with other Federal, State, and local agencies, 

 private persons, or any combination thereof. 



"(2) The Administrator shall enter into ar- 

 rangements, wherever practicable and desirable, 

 to provide monitoring of full-scale solid waste fa- 

 cilities (whether or not constructed or operated 

 imder this Act) for purposes of obtaining informa- 

 tion concerning the performance, and other as- 



