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 104 STAT. 854 PUBLIC LAW 101-397—SEPT. 28, 1990 42 USC 10301 note. Contracts. 42 USC 10303 note. project to the Nation, region, and State concerned, and the potential benefit to be accrued. "(c) There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary the sum of $6,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out this section for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1990, through September 30, 1995; such sums to remain available until expended.". (o) Section 309(a) of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10301 et al.), as amended, is further amended by deleting "1991" and inserting in lieu thereof "1995". SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is authorized to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements, as the Secretary deems appropriate, with national laboratories (including Los Alamos National Laboratory) to carry out water resources research, development, and demonstration projects within the authorities of Public Law 98-242 (including the effects of potential climate changes on surface and ground water quality and quantity and the elimination of contamination of ground water aquifers). (b) The water resources research authorized in this section shall be undertaken under such rules and regulations as the Secretary deems appropriate and shall be carried out in close consultation and collaboration with the institutes established pursuant to Public Law 98-242, to the extent such research work affects the State in which the institute exists, and to the extent such institute agrees to consult and collaborate. (c) For the purposes of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior the sum of $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991 through 1995. Approved September 28, 1990. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 1101: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 101-76 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 135 (1989): June 6, considered and peissed House. Vol. 136 (1990): Aug. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended. Sept. 11, House concurred in Senate amendment.

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