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SUBCHAPTER I.— STATE WATER RESOURCES 

 RESEARCH INSTITUTES 



§ 1961a. Water resources research institutes. 



(a) Appropriations; establishment; number; designa- 

 tion of institution; interstate or regional insti- 

 tutes; participation of educational institutions in 

 institute work. 



There are authorized to be appropriated to the 

 Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year 1965 and 

 each subsequent year thereafter sums adequate to 

 provide $75,000 to each of the several States in the 

 first year, $87,500 in each of the second and third 

 years, and $250,000 each year thereafter to assist 

 each participating State in establishing and carrying 

 on the worlc of a competent and qualified water re- 

 sources research institute, center, or equivalent 

 agency (hereinafter referred to as "institute") atone 

 college or university in that State, which college or 

 imiversity shall be a college or university established 

 in accordance with sections 301 to 305. 307 and 308 of 

 Title 7 or some other institution designated by Act 

 of the legislature of the State concerned: Provided, 

 That (1) if there Is more than one such college or 

 university In a State, established in accordance 

 with sections 301 to 305, 307 and 308 of Title 7, funds 

 under this chapter shall, in the absence of a designa- 

 tion to the contrary by act of the legislature of the 

 State, be paid to the one such college or university 

 designated by the Governor of the State to receive 

 the same subject to the Secretary's determination 

 that such college or university has, or may reason- 

 ably be expected to have, the capability of doing 

 effective work under this chapter; (2) two or more- 

 States may cooperate in the designation of a single 

 interstate or regional institute, in which event the 

 sums assignable to all of the cooperating States shall; 

 be paid to such institute; and (3) a designated col- 

 lege or university may, as authorized by appropriate 

 State authority, arrange with other colleges and uni- 

 versities within the State to participate in the work 

 of the institute: Provided further. That for fiscal 

 year 1973 not more than $125,000 shall be appro- 

 priated for each of the District of Columbia, the 

 Virgin Islands, and Guam, and for fiscal year 1974 

 not more than $200,000 shall be appropriated for 

 each of such areas. 



(b) Duties of institutes; scope of activities. 



It shall be the duty of each such institute to plan 

 and conduct and /or arrange for a component or 

 components of the college or university with which 

 It is afBliated to conduct competent research, in- 

 vestigations, and experiments of either a basic or 

 practical natiu-e, or both, in relation to water re- 

 sources and to provide for the training of scientists 

 through such research, investigations, and experts 

 ments. Such research, investigations, experiments, 

 and training may include, without being limited to, 

 aspects of the hydrologic cycle; supply and demand 

 for water; conservation and best use of available 

 supplies of water; methods of increasing such sup- 

 plies; and economic, legal, social, engineering, rec- 

 reational, biological, geographic, ecological and 

 other aspects of water problems and scientific in- 



formation dissemination activities, including iden- 

 tifying, assembling, and interpreting the results of 

 scientific and engineering research deemed poten- 

 tially significant for solution of water resource prob- 

 lems, providing means for improved communication 

 regarding such research results, including prototype 

 operations, ascertaining the existing and potential 

 effectiveness of such for aiding in the solution of 

 practical problems, and for training qualified persons 

 in the performance of such scientific information 

 dissemination; having due regard to the varying 

 conditions and needs of the respective State, to 

 water research projects being conducted by agencies 

 of the Federal and State Governments, the agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, and others, and to 

 avoidance of any undue displacement of scientists 

 and engineers elsewhere engaged in water resources 

 research. The annual programs submitted by the 

 State institutes to the Secretary for approval shall 

 Include assurance satisfactory to the Secretary that 

 such programs were developed in close consultation 

 and collaboration with leading water resources ofiB- 

 cials within the State to promote research, training, 

 and other work meeting the needs of the State. 

 (As amended Pub. L. 92-175, §| 1-3, Dec. 2, 1971, 

 85 Stat. 493.) 



Amendments 



1971 — Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 92-175, §1. substituted 

 "$250,000" for "$100,000" and added the further proviso 

 limiting the 1973 fiscal year appropriations for the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Guam to 

 $125,000 each and the 1974 fiscal year appropriations to 

 $200,000 each. 



Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 92-175. §5 2. 3, added the dis- 

 semination of scientific Information to the enumeration 

 of duties for the Institutes and added requirement that 

 the annual programs submitted by the State Institutes 

 to the Secretary for approval Include assurance satis- 

 factory to the Secretary that such programs were devel- 

 oped In close consultation and collaboration with leading 

 water resources officials within the State to promote re- 

 search, training, and other work meeting the needs of 

 the State. 



§ 1961a-I. Specific water resources research projects, 

 including regional projects. 



(a) Appropriations; matching: funds. 



There is further authorized to be appropriated to 

 the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year 1965 

 and each subsequent year thereafter sums not in 

 excess of the following: 1965. $1,000,000; 1966, 

 and each subsequent year thereafter sums not in 

 excess of the following: 19G5. $1,000,000: 1966, 

 $2,000,000; 1967, $3,000,000; 1968, $4,000,000; and 

 1969 and each of the succeeding years, $5,000,000. 

 Such moneys when appropriated, shall be available 

 to match, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, funds made 

 available to institutes by States or other non-Federal 

 sources to meet the necessary expenses of specific 

 water resources research projects which could not 

 otherwise be undertaken, including the expenses of 

 planning and coordinating regional water resources 

 research projects by two or more institutes. 



(b) Application for grants; contents; approval of 

 projects; basis of grants. 



Each application for a grant pursuant to subsec- 

 tion (a) of this section shall, among other things, 

 state the nature of the project to be undertaken, the 

 period during which it will be pursued, the qualiflca- 



