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 162 43 USC 391 note. Rules and regulations. Report to P r e s i d e n t and Congress.

Definitions.

Appropriations.

PUBLIC LAW 92-60-JULY 29, 1971

[85 STAT.

provisions of Reclamation Law (32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto) will govern. (f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter existing law with respect to the ownership and control of water. SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior may issue rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this Act. SEC. 8. 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 3, subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d), along with a program for the orderly termination of these activities in accordance with subsection 10(b) of this Act; and (ii) the status of work in progress under the provisions of subsection 3(e) and section 4 along with recommendations for the integration of these remaining functions within the on-going water resource programs of the Department of the Interior. SEC. 9. As used in this Act— (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 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands; and the provisions of this Act shall also apply to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (e) the term "pilot plant" means an experimental 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 integral portion of a desalting plant which is used initially to study large-scale technology and critical design features in preparation for subsequent prototype construction; (h) the term "prototype" means a full-size, first-of-a-kind production plant used for the development, study, and demonstration of full-sized technology, plant operation, and process economics. SEC. 10. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act 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, modification, operation, and maintenance of saline water conversion test beds and test facilities, not more than $7,385,000; (4) Design, construction, acquisition, modification, operation, and maintenance of saline water conversion modules, not more than $1,425,000; and

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