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§ ISSGf. Report to the President end Congress. 



The Secretary shall submit to the President and to 

 the Congress not later than December 31, 1975, a 

 report on — 



(i) the status of research and development work 

 in progress under the provisions of section 1959a 

 (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this title, along with a 

 program for the orderly termination of these ac- 

 tivities in accordance with section 1959h(b) of this 

 title; and 



(ii) the status of work in progress under the' 

 provisions of section 1959a(e) and section 1959b of 

 this title along with the recommendations for the 

 integration of these remaining functions within 

 the on-going water resource programs of the De- 

 partment of the Interior. 

 (Pub. L. 92-60, § 8, July 29, 1971, 85 Stat. 162.) 



§ 1959g. Definitions. 

 As used in this chapter — 



(a) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary 

 of the Interior; 



(b) the term "saline water" Includes sea water, 

 brackish water, mineralized ground or surface ' 

 water, and irrigation return flows; 



(c) the term "other chemically contaminated 

 water" refers to waters which contain chemicals ■ 

 susceptible to removal by desalting processes; 



(d) the term "United States" extends to and 

 includes the District of Columbia, the Common- 

 wealth of Puerto Rico, territories of American 

 Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands; and the 

 provisions of this chapter shall also apply to the 

 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ; 



(e) the term "pilot plant" means an experi- 

 mental unit of small size, usually less than one 

 hundred thousand gallons per day capacity, used 

 for early evaluation and development of new or 

 improved processes and to obtain technical and 

 engineering data; 



(f) the term "test bed" means an intermediate- 

 sized, experimental desalting plant of up to two 

 million gallons per day capacity used for further 

 evaluation and refinement of processes in the field 

 and designed to facilitate the incorporation of 

 experimental features for performance testing and 

 to permit process changes and Improvements as 

 required; 



(g) the term "module" means a section or In- 

 tegral portion of a desalting plant which is used 

 initially to study large-scale technology and criti- 

 cal design features in preparation for subsequent 

 prototype construction; 



(h) the term "prototype" means a full-size, 

 first-of-a-kind production plant used for develop- 

 ment, study, and demonstration of full-sized tech- 

 nology, plant operation, and process economics. 

 (Pub. L. 92-60, § 9, July 29. 1971. 85 Stat. 152.) 



§ 1959h. Authorization of appropriations. 



(a) Availability of moneys for various expenses; in- 

 creases and decreases in expenditures and obli- 

 gations. 



There Is authorized to be appropriated to carry 

 out the provlsons of this chapter during fiscal year 

 1972, the sum of $27,025,000, to remain available 

 until expended, as follows: 



( 1 ) Research expense, not more than $5,475,000 ; 



(2) Development expense, not more than 

 $10,200,000; 



(3) Design, construction, acquisition, modifica- 

 tion, operation, and maintenance of saline water 

 conversion test bers and test facilities, not more 

 than $7,385,000; 



(4) Design, construction, acquisition, modifica- 

 tion, operation, and maintenance of saline water 

 conversion modules, not more than $1,425,000; and 



(5) Administration and coordination not more 

 than $2,540,000. 



Expenditures and obligations imder paragraphs (1), 

 (2) . (3) , and (4) of this subsection may be increased 

 by not more than 10 per centum, and expenditures 

 and obligations under paragraph (5) may be in- 

 creased by not more than 2 per centum, if any such 

 Increase under any paragraph is accompanied by an 

 equal decrease in expenditures and obligations under 

 one or more of the other paragraphs. 



(b) Annual appropriation authorization; availability 

 of moneys for execution of provisions, for grants, 

 contracts, cooperative agreements, and studies, and 

 for correlation of results of studies and research. 



There are authorized to be appropriated such 

 sums, to remain available until expended, as may be 

 specified in annual appropriation authorization Acts 

 to carry out the provisions of this chapter during 

 the fiscal years 1973 to 1977, inclusive, and to finance, 

 for not more than three years beyond the end of said 

 period, such grants, contracts, cooperative agree- 

 ments, and studies as may theretofore have been 

 undertaken pursuant to this chapter and such ac- 

 tivities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and 

 round out the results of studies and research under- 

 taken pursuant to this chapter. 



(c) Foreign research ; availability of funds. 



Not more than 2 per centum of the fimds to be 

 made available in any fiscal year for research under 

 the authority of this chapter may be expended, sub- 

 ject to the approval of the Secretary of State to as- 

 sure that such activities are consistent with the for- 

 eign policy objectives of the United States, in coop- 

 eration with public or private agencies in foreign 

 countries for research useful to the program in the 

 United States. (Pub. L. 92-60, § 10, July 29, 1971, 85 

 Stat. 162.) 



