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[CITE: 42USC6984]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 82--SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
 
 SUBCHAPTER VIII--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, AND INFORMATION
 
Sec. 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).

(Pub. L. 89-272, title II, Sec. 8004, as added Pub. L. 94-580, Sec. 2, 
Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2836; amended Pub. L. 95-609, Sec. 7(v), Nov. 8, 
1978, 92 Stat. 3084; Pub. L. 98-616, title V, Sec. 502(f), Nov. 8, 1984, 
98 Stat. 3276.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 98-616 inserted ``(1)'' before 
``Wherever''.
    1978--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 95-609 substituted ``solid waste'' for 
``discarded material''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Administrator or 
other official of Environmental Protection Agency under this chapter to 
Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural 
Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of 
Energy, see note set out under section 6903 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5920, 6981 of this title.
