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 92 STAT. 84

PUBLIC LAW 95-238—FEB. 25, 1978 TITLE IV—ESTABLISHMENT O F FINANCIAL S U P P O E T PROGRAM FOR MUNICIPAL WASTE REPROCESSING DEMONSTRATION F A C I L I T I E S

Ante, p. 61.

SEC. 401. The Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5901 et seq.), as amended by section 207 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: > " F I N A N C I A L SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR M U N I C I P A L WASTE REPROCESSING DEMONSTRATION FACILITIES

42 USC 5920.

Demonstration project.

Municipal waste.

'Municipal.

Federal share.

Regulations. 42 USC 5906.

Compliance, consultation. 42 USC 6984.

"SEC. 20. (a) It is the purpose of this section— " (1) to assure adequate Federal support to foster a program to demonstrate municipal waste reprocessing for the production of fuel and energy intensive products; and "(2) to gather information about the technological, economic, environmental, and social costs, benefits, and impacts of such demonstration facilities. "(b)(1) The Administrator is authorized and directed, to the extent provided in appropriation Acts, to establish such a demonstration program by making grants, contracts, price supports, and cooperative agreements pursuant to this Act or any combination thereof for the establishment of municipal waste reprocessing demonstration facilities. For the purpose of this section municipal waste shall include but not be limited to municipal solid waste, sewage sludge, and other municipal organic wastes. "(2) The aggregate amount of funds available for grants, contracts, price supports, and cooperative agreements for municipal waste reprocessing demonstration facilities shall not exceed $20,000,000 in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1978. "(3) For purposes of this section the term 'municipal' shall include any city, town, borough, county, parish, district, or other public body created by or pursuant to State law. "(4) Municipal waste reprocessing demonstration facilities established under this section shall be owned or operated (or both owned and operated) by the municipality and shall involve the recovery of energy or energy intensive products. Such facilities may be established by any public or private entity, by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the local government which will own or operate (or both own and operate) such facilities and to which financial support is provided. The Federal share for any such facility to which this section applies shall not exceed 75 per centum of the cost of such facility, and not more than $40,000,000 in Federal funds under this section may be used for the construction of any one facility. "(5) The Administrator shall promulgate such regulations as he deems necessary, pursuant to section 7(a)(4) and section 7(c)(1) and (6) of this Act, for purposes of establishing a price support program for revenue producing products of municipal waste reprocessing demonstration facilities. "(c)(1) The Administrator shall consult with the Environmental Protection Agency to assure that the provisions of section 8004 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580) are applied in carrying out this section.

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