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and other assistance from any State or public agency 

 in connection with studies or surveys relating to 

 saline water conversion problems and facilities and 

 to enter into contracts with respect to such assist- 

 ance. (Pub. L. 92-60, § 4. July 29, 1971, 85 Stat. 160.) 



§ 1959c. Powers of Secretary of Interior. 



In carrying out his functions under this chapter, 

 the Secretary may — 



(a) make grants to educational Institutions and 

 scientific organizations, and enter into contracts 

 with such institutions and organizations and with 

 industrial or engineering firms ; 



(b) acquire the services of chemists, physicists, 

 engineers, and other personnel by contract or 

 otherwise; 



(c) utilize the facilities of Federal scientific lab- 

 oratories; 



(d) establish and operate necessary facilities 

 and test sites to carry on the continuous research, 

 testing, development, and programing necessary to 

 effectuate the purposes of this chapter; 



(e) acquire secret processes, technical data, 

 inventions, patent applications, patents, licenses, 

 land and interests in land (including water rights) , 

 plants and facilities, and other property or rights 

 by purchase, license, lease, or donation; 



(f) assemble and maintain pertinent and cur- 

 rent scientific literature, both domestic and for- 

 eign, and issue bibliographical data with respect 

 thereto; 



(g) cause on-site inspections to be made of 

 promising projects, domestic and foreign, and, in 

 the case of projects located in the United States, 

 cooperate and participate in their development 

 when the purposes of this chapter will be served 

 thereby ; 



(h) foster and participate in regional, national, 

 and international conferences relating to saline 

 water conversion; 



(i) coordinate, correlate, and publish Informa- 

 tion with a view to advancing the development of 

 low-cost saline water conversion projects: and 



(j) cooperate with other Federal departments 

 and agencies, with State and local departments, 

 agenci*6 and instrumentalities, and with interested 

 persons, firms, institutions, and organizations. 

 (Pub. L. 92-60. § 5, July 29, 1971, 85 Stat. 160.) 



§1fl50d. Saline water conversion program and other 

 Federal programs. 



(a) Coordination or joint conduct of activities with 

 Departmont of Defense. 

 Research and development activities undertaken 

 by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted 

 jointly with the Department of Defense to the end 

 that developments under this chapter which are pri- 

 marily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense 

 of the Nation and that developments which are pri- 

 marily of a military nature will, to the greatest prac- 

 ticable extent compatible with military and security 

 requirements, be available to advance the purposes 

 of this chapter and to strengthen the civil economy 

 of the Nation. 



(b) Cooperation with Environmental Protection 



Agency. 



The Secretary will cooperate with the Administra- 

 tor of the Environmental Protection Agency to in- 

 sure that research and development work performed 

 under this chapter makes the fullest possible con- 

 tribution to the improvement of processes and 

 techniques for the treatment of saline and other 

 chemically contaminated waters and to avoid the 

 duplication of the experience, expertise, and data 

 regarding desalting technologies which have been 

 acquired in the performance of the Saline Water 

 Conversion Act. 



(c) Cooperation with other Federal agencies. 



The Secretary shall cooperate fully with the 

 Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of 

 Health, Education, and V/elfare, the Department 

 of State, and other concerned agencies in the in- 

 terest of achieving the objectives of this chapter. 



(d) Research information and developments: avail- 

 ability to public; patent rights; rules and revisions 

 of rules : publication in Federal Register. 



All research within the United States contracted 

 for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under 

 authority of this chapter, shall be provided for in 

 such manner that all information, uses, products, 

 processes, patents, and other developments resulting 

 from such research developed by Government ex- 

 penditure will (with such exceptions and limita- 

 tions, if any, as the Secretary may find to be neces- 

 sary in the interest of national defense) be available 

 to the general public. This subsection shall not be so 

 construed as to deprive the owner of any background 

 patent relating thereto of such rights as he may 

 have thereunder. Within six months of July 29, 1971, 

 the Secretary shall publish rules in the Federal Reg- 

 ister to give effect to the provisions of this subsec- 

 tion and shall subsequently publish all revisions in 

 the same manner. 



(e) Disposal of water and byproducts; disposition of 

 moneys. 



The Secretary may dispose of water and byprod- 

 ucts resulting from his operations under this chap- 

 ter. All moneys received from dispositions under this 

 section shall be paid into the Treasury as miscellane- 

 ous receipts except where such operations may be 

 undertaken as a part of a Federal reclamation pro- 

 ject in which case the financial provisions of Re- 

 clamation Law (32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory 

 thereof and supplementary thereto) will govern. 



(f) .Vlteration of existing water ownership and control 

 law. 



Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to 



alter existing law with respect to the ownership and 



control of water. (Pub. L. 92-60, § 6, July 29, 1971, 



85 Stat. 161.) 



§ 1959e. Rules and regulations. 



The Secretary of the Interior may issue rules and 

 regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. 

 (Pub. L. 92-60, § 7, July 29, 1971, 85 Stat. 162.) 



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