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[CITE: 42USC10341]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 109A--MEMBRANE PROCESSES RESEARCH
 
Sec. 10341. Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) there is an increasing threat of impairment to the quantity 
    and quality of the Nation's water resources due to, among other 
    things, growing national needs, recurring drought in the Western 
    States, point and nonpoint source pollution, and saltwater intrusion 
    into existing groundwater supplies;
        (2) many communities in the United States have water supplies 
    containing high salinity levels or contaminants which pose health 
    risks;
        (3) the Nation needs to develop economical processes to treat 
    existing water supplies that are contaminated;
        (4) it is necessary to provide for research into new techniques 
    to reclaim waste water and to convert saline and other contaminated 
    waters to a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, 
    agricultural, recreational, and other beneficial uses;
        (5) there is very little Federal funding being applied to basic 
    research in the field of treatment of contaminated water through 
    membrane processes; and
        (6) the treatment of contaminated water through membrane 
    processes will solve a wide variety of water treatment problems, 
    including compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
    [33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.] and the Safe Drinking Water Act [42 U.S.C. 
    300f et seq.].

(Pub. L. 102-490, Sec. 2, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3142.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in par. (6), is 
act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, as amended generally by Pub. L. 92-500, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816, which is classified generally to 
chapter 26 (Sec. 1251 et seq.) of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable 
Waters. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 1251 of Title 33 and Tables.
    The Safe Drinking Water Act, referred to in par. (6), is title XIV 
of act July 1, 1944, as added Dec. 16, 1974, Pub. L. 93-523, Sec. 2(a), 
88 Stat. 1660, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter 
XII (Sec. 300f et seq.) of chapter 6A of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 201 of this title and Tables.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 102-490 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this chapter] may be cited as the `Membrane Processes Research Act of 
1992'.''
