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 94 STAT. 704

Financial assistance.

Priority for funding.

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 (A) the research, development, and demonstration of technologies to recover energy from municipal wastes; (B) the development and application of new municipal wasteto-energy recovery technologies; (C) the assessment, evaluation, demonstration, and improvement of the performance of existing municipal waste-to-energy recovery technologies with respect to capital costs, operating and maintenance costs, total project financing, recovery efficiency, and the quality of recovered energy and energy intensive materials; (D) the evaluation of municipal waste energy projects for the purpose of developing a base of engineering data that can be used in the design of future municipal waste energy projects to recover energy from municipal wastes; and (E) research studies on the size and other significant characteristics of potential markets for municipal waste-to-energy recovery technologies, and recovered energy, and energy intensive materials. (b) Under such program, the Secretary of Energy may provide financial assistance consisting of price supports, loans, and loan guarantees, for the cost of planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining demonstration facilities, and, in the case of existing facilities, modifications of such facilities solely for demonstration purposes, for the conversion of municipal WEistes into energy or the recovery of materials. (c) Priority for funding of activities under subsection (a) and financial assistance under subsection (b) shall be provided for any activity or project for the demonstration of technologies for the production of liquid fuels or biomass energy which substitute for petroleum or natural gas. (d) The Secretary of Energy may not obligate or expend any funds authorized under this title in carrying out subsection (b) of this section until the plan required under section 231(a) has been prepared and submitted to the Congress. (e) All amounts received by the Secretary of Energy as fees, interest, repayment of principal, and any other moneys received by the Secretary from operations under this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. JURISDICTION OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

42 USC 8838. 42 USC 5920.

SEC. 238. The provisions of section 20(c) of the Federal Nonnuclear Research and Development Act of 1974, relating to the responsibilities of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, shall apply with respect to actions under this subtitle to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to actions under section 20 of such Act. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF ENERGY FROM MUNICIPAL WASTE IN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

42 USC 8839.

SEC. 239. (a) There is hereby established within the Department of Energy an Office of Energy from Municipal Waste (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Office") to be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Energy.

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