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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 6984. Full-scale demonstration facilities
(a) Authority
The Administrator may enter into contracts with public agencies
or authorities or private persons for the construction and
operation of a full-scale demonstration facility under this
chapter, or provide financial assistance in the form of grants to a
full-scale demonstration facility under this chapter only if the
Administrator finds that -
(1) such facility or proposed facility will demonstrate at full
scale a new or significantly improved technology or process, a
practical and significant improvement in solid waste management
practice, or the technological feasibility and cost effectiveness
of an existing, but unproven technology, process, or practice,
and will not duplicate any other Federal, State, local, or
commercial facility which has been constructed or with respect to
which construction has begun (determined as of the date action is
taken by the Administrator under this chapter),
(2) such contract or assistance meets the requirements of
section 6981 of this title and meets other applicable
requirements of this chapter,
(3) such facility will be able to comply with the guidelines
published under section 6907 of this title and with other laws
and regulations for the protection of health and the environment,
(4) in the case of a contract for construction or operation,
such facility is not likely to be constructed or operated by
State, local, or private persons or in the case of an application
for financial assistance, such facility is not likely to receive
adequate financial assistance from other sources, and
(5) any Federal interest in, or assistance to, such facility
will be disposed of or terminated, with appropriate compensation,
within such period of time as may be necessary to carry out the
basic objectives of this chapter.
(b) Time limitation
No obligation may be made by the Administrator for financial
assistance under this subchapter for any full-scale demonstration
facility after the date ten years after October 21, 1976. No
expenditure of funds for any such full-scale demonstration facility
under this subchapter may be made by the Administrator after the
date fourteen years after October 21, 1976.
(c) Cost sharing
(1) Wherever practicable, in constructing, operating, or
providing financial assistance under this subchapter to a
full-scale demonstration facility, the Administrator shall endeavor
to enter into agreements and make other arrangements for maximum
practicable cost sharing with other Federal, State, and local
agencies, private persons, or any combination thereof.
(2) The Administrator shall enter into arrangements, wherever
practicable and desirable, to provide monitoring of full-scale
solid waste facilities (whether or not constructed or operated
under this chapter) for purposes of obtaining information
concerning the performance, and other aspects, of such facilities.
Where the Administrator provides only monitoring and evaluation
instruments or personnel (or both) or funds for such instruments or
personnel and provides no other financial assistance to a facility,
notwithstanding section 6981(c)(3) of this title, title to any
invention made or conceived of in the course of developing,
constructing, or operating such facility shall not be required to
vest in the United States and patents respecting such invention
shall not be required to be issued to the United States.
(d) Prohibition
After October 21, 1976, the Administrator shall not construct or
operate any full-scale facility (except by contract with public
agencies or authorities or private persons).
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