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 91 STAT. 400

PUBLIC LAW 95-84—AUG. 2, 1977

Public Law 95-84 95th Congress An Act Aug. 2, 1977 [H.R. 4746]

Water research and conversion.

42 USC 1961 note.

42 USC 1959 note.

42 USC 1961b. 42 USC 1959h.

Appropriation authorization.

42 USC 1959h note.

42 USC 1959 note.

Limitation.

Desalting plants.

42 USC 1959i.

Report to congressional committees.

To extend certain authorities of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to water resources research and saline water conversion programs, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-379; 78 Stat. 330) as amended, and the Saline Water Conversion Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-60; 85 Stat. 162) as amended, are further amended as follows: (1) Title II, additional water resources research programs, section 200(a) of the Water Resources Research Act, is hereby further amended by adding after "for each of the fiscal years 19721976," the words "and for 1978,". (2) Section 10(b) of the Saline Water Conversion Act is amended by changing the phrase "during the fiscal years 1973 to 1977, inclusive," to read "during the fiscal years 1973 to 1978, inclusive,". (b) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of the Saline Water Conversion Act of 1971 during fiscal year 1978 the sum of $11,950,000, to remain available until expended as follows: (1) Research Expense, $1,500,000; (2) Development Expense, $7,950,000; (3) Test Facility Operation and Maintenance, $1,500,000; (4) Administration and Coordination, $1,000,000. (c) Expenditures and obligations under any activity authorized by paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) above may be increased by not more than 10 per centum if any such increase is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in expenditures and obligations in one or more activities set forth in subsection (b) above. (d) Notwithstanding any provision of the Saline Water Conversion Act of 1971 (85 Stat. 162) or any other provision of this Act, no authority to make payments under this Act shall be effective except to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts. (e) All other provisions of the above Acts shall remain unchanged by this Act. SKC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to study, design, construct, operate, and maintain desalting plants demonstrating the engineering and economic viability of membrane and phase-change desalting processes at not more than four locations in the United States, including Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam: Provided, That at least two S' h plants shall demonstrate desalting of brackish ground water. (b) Funds appropriated pursuant to the authority provided by this section may not be expended until thirty calendar days (excluding days on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three calendar days to a day certain) have elapsed following transmittal of a report to the chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on

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