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[CITE: 42USC9660]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
  CHAPTER 103--COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND 
                                LIABILITY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 9660. Research, development, and demonstration


(a) Hazardous substance research and training

                    (1) Authorities of Secretary

        The Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereinafter in this 
    subsection referred to as the Secretary), in consultation with the 
    Administrator, shall establish and support a basic research and 
    training program (through grants, cooperative agreements, and 
    contracts) consisting of the following:
            (A) Basic research (including epidemiologic and ecologic 
        studies) which may include each of the following:
                (i) Advanced techniques for the detection, assessment, 
            and evaluation of the effects on human health of hazardous 
            substances.
                (ii) Methods to assess the risks to human health 
            presented by hazardous substances.
                (iii) Methods and technologies to detect hazardous 
            substances in the environment and basic biological, 
            chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and 
            toxicity of hazardous substances.

            (B) Training, which may include each of the following:
                (i) Short courses and continuing education for State and 
            local health and environment agency personnel and other 
            personnel engaged in the handling of hazardous substances, 
            in the management of facilities at which hazardous 
            substances are located, and in the evaluation of the hazards 
            to human health presented by such facilities.
                (ii) Graduate or advanced training in environmental and 
            occupational health and safety and in the public health and 
            engineering aspects of hazardous waste control.
                (iii) Graduate training in the geosciences, including 
            hydrogeology, geological engineering, geophysics, 
            geochemistry, and related fields necessary to meet 
            professional personnel needs in the public and private 
            sectors and to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.

                        (2) Director of NIEHS

        The Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health 
    Sciences shall cooperate fully with the relevant Federal agencies 
    referred to in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) in carrying out the 
    purposes of this section.

                   (3) Recipients of grants, etc.

        A grant, cooperative agreement, or contract may be made or 
    entered into under paragraph (1) with an accredited institution of 
    higher education. The institution may carry out the research or 
    training under the grant, cooperative agreement, or contract through 
    contracts, including contracts with any of the following:
            (A) Generators of hazardous wastes.
            (B) Persons involved in the detection, assessment, 
        evaluation, and treatment of hazardous substances.
            (C) Owners and operators of facilities at which hazardous 
        substances are located.
            (D) State and local governments.

                           (4) Procedures

        In making grants and entering into cooperative agreements and 
    contracts under this subsection, the Secretary shall act through the 
    Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health 
    Sciences. In considering the allocation of funds for training 
    purposes, the Director shall ensure that at least one grant, 
    cooperative agreement, or contract shall be awarded for training 
    described in each of clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of paragraph 
    (1)(B). Where applicable, the Director may choose to operate 
    training activities in cooperation with the Director of the National 
    Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The procedures 
    applicable to grants and contracts under title IV of the Public 
    Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 281 et seq.] shall be followed under 
    this subsection.

                        (5) Advisory council

        To assist in the implementation of this subsection and to aid in 
    the coordination of research and demonstration and training 
    activities funded from the Fund under this section, the Secretary 
    shall appoint an advisory council (hereinafter in this subsection 
    referred to as the ``Advisory Council'') which shall consist of 
    representatives of the following:
            (A) The relevant Federal agencies.
            (B) The chemical industry.
            (C) The toxic waste management industry.
            (D) Institutions of higher education.
            (E) State and local health and environmental agencies.
            (F) The general public.

                            (6) Planning

        Within nine months after October 17, 1986, the Secretary, acting 
    through the Director of the National Institute for Environmental 
    Health Sciences, shall issue a plan for the implementation of 
    paragraph (1). The plan shall include priorities for actions under 
    paragraph (1) and include research and training relevant to 
    scientific and technological issues resulting from site specific 
    hazardous substance response experience. The Secretary shall, to the 
    maximum extent practicable, take appropriate steps to coordinate 
    program activities under this plan with the activities of other 
    Federal agencies in order to avoid duplication of effort. The plan 
    shall be consistent with the need for the development of new 
    technologies for meeting the goals of response actions in accordance 
    with the provisions of this chapter. The Advisory Council shall be 
    provided an opportunity to review and comment on the plan and 
    priorities and assist appropriate coordination among the relevant 
    Federal agencies referred to in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5).

(b) Alternative or innovative treatment technology research and 
        demonstration program

                          (1) Establishment

        The Administrator is authorized and directed to carry out a 
    program of research, evaluation, testing, development, and 
    demonstration of alternative or innovative treatment technologies 
    (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as the ``program'') 
    which may be utilized in response actions to achieve more permanent 
    protection of human health and welfare and the environment.

                         (2) Administration

        The program shall be administered by the Administrator, acting 
    through an office of technology demonstration and shall be 
    coordinated with programs carried out by the Office of Solid Waste 
    and Emergency Response and the Office of Research and Development.

                      (3) Contracts and grants

        In carrying out the program, the Administrator is authorized to 
    enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and make 
    grants to, persons, public entities, and nonprofit private entities 
    which are exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of title 26. The 
    Administrator shall, to the maximum extent possible, enter into 
    appropriate cost sharing arrangements under this subsection.

                          (4) Use of sites

        In carrying out the program, the Administrator may arrange for 
    the use of sites at which a response may be undertaken under section 
    9604 of this title for the purposes of carrying out research, 
    testing, evaluation, development, and demonstration projects. Each 
    such project shall be carried out under such terms and conditions as 
    the Administrator shall require to assure the protection of human 
    health and the environment and to assure adequate control by the 
    Administrator of the research, testing, evaluation, development, and 
    demonstration activities at the site.

                    (5) Demonstration assistance

        (A) Program components

            The demonstration assistance program shall include the 
        following:
                (i) The publication of a solicitation and the evaluation 
            of applications for demonstration projects utilizing 
            alternative or innovative technologies.
                (ii) The selection of sites which are suitable for the 
            testing and evaluation of innovative technologies.
                (iii) The development of detailed plans for innovative 
            technology demonstration projects.
                (iv) The supervision of such demonstration projects and 
            the providing of quality assurance for data obtained.
                (v) The evaluation of the results of alternative 
            innovative technology demonstration projects and the 
            determination of whether or not the technologies used are 
            effective and feasible.

        (B) Solicitation

            Within 90 days after October 17, 1986, and no less often 
        than once every 12 months thereafter, the Administrator shall 
        publish a solicitation for innovative or alternative 
        technologies at a stage of development suitable for full-scale 
        demonstrations at sites at which a response action may be 
        undertaken under section 9604 of this title. The purpose of any 
        such project shall be to demonstrate the use of an alternative 
        or innovative treatment technology with respect to hazardous 
        substances or pollutants or contaminants which are located at 
        the site or which are to be removed from the site. The 
        solicitation notice shall prescribe information to be included 
        in the application, including technical and economic data 
        derived from the applicant's own research and development 
        efforts, and other information sufficient to permit the 
        Administrator to assess the technology's potential and the types 
        of remedial action to which it may be applicable.

        (C) Applications

            Any person and any public or private nonprofit entity may 
        submit an application to the Administrator in response to the 
        solicitation. The application shall contain a proposed 
        demonstration plan setting forth how and when the project is to 
        be carried out and such other information as the Administrator 
        may require.

        (D) Project selection

            In selecting technologies to be demonstrated, the 
        Administrator shall fully review the applications submitted and 
        shall consider at least the criteria specified in paragraph (7). 
        The Administrator shall select or refuse to select a project for 
        demonstration under this subsection within 90 days of receiving 
        the completed application for such project. In the case of a 
        refusal to select the project, the Administrator shall notify 
        the applicant within such 90-day period of the reasons for his 
        refusal.

        (E) Site selection

            The Administrator shall propose 10 sites at which a response 
        may be undertaken under section 9604 of this title to be the 
        location of any demonstration project under this subsection 
        within 60 days after the close of the public comment period. 
        After an opportunity for notice and public comment, the 
        Administrator shall select such sites and projects. In selecting 
        any such site, the Administrator shall take into account the 
        applicant's technical data and preferences either for onsite 
        operation or for utilizing the site as a source of hazardous 
        substances or pollutants or contaminants to be treated offsite.

        (F) Demonstration plan

            Within 60 days after the selection of the site under this 
        paragraph to be the location of a demonstration project, the 
        Administrator shall establish a final demonstration plan for the 
        project, based upon the demonstration plan contained in the 
        application for the project. Such plan shall clearly set forth 
        how and when the demonstration project will be carried out.

        (G) Supervision and testing

            Each demonstration project under this subsection shall be 
        performed by the applicant, or by a person satisfactory to the 
        applicant, under the supervision of the Administrator. The 
        Administrator shall enter into a written agreement with each 
        applicant granting the Administrator the responsibility and 
        authority for testing procedures, quality control, monitoring, 
        and other measurements necessary to determine and evaluate the 
        results of the demonstration project. The Administrator may pay 
        the costs of testing, monitoring, quality control, and other 
        measurements required by the Administrator to determine and 
        evaluate the results of the demonstration project, and the 
        limitations established by subparagraph (J) shall not apply to 
        such costs.

        (H) Project completion

            Each demonstration project under this subsection shall be 
        completed within such time as is established in the 
        demonstration plan.

        (I) Extensions

            The Administrator may extend any deadline established under 
        this paragraph by mutual agreement with the applicant concerned.

        (J) Funding restrictions

            The Administrator shall not provide any Federal assistance 
        for any part of a full-scale field demonstration project under 
        this subsection to any applicant unless such applicant can 
        demonstrate that it cannot obtain appropriate private financing 
        on reasonable terms and conditions sufficient to carry out such 
        demonstration project without such Federal assistance. The total 
        Federal funds for any full-scale field demonstration project 
        under this subsection shall not exceed 50 percent of the total 
        cost of such project estimated at the time of the award of such 
        assistance. The Administrator shall not expend more than 
        $10,000,000 for assistance under the program in any fiscal year 
        and shall not expend more than $3,000,000 for any single 
        project.

                      (6) Field demonstrations

        In carrying out the program, the Administrator shall initiate or 
    cause to be initiated at least 10 field demonstration projects of 
    alternative or innovative treatment technologies at sites at which a 
    response may be undertaken under section 9604 of this title, in 
    fiscal year 1987 and each of the succeeding three fiscal years. If 
    the Administrator determines that 10 field demonstration projects 
    under this subsection cannot be initiated consistent with the 
    criteria set forth in paragraph (7) in any of such fiscal years, the 
    Administrator shall transmit to the appropriate committees of 
    Congress a report explaining the reasons for his inability to 
    conduct such demonstration projects.

                            (7) Criteria

        In selecting technologies to be demonstrated under this 
    subsection, the Administrator shall, consistent with the protection 
    of human health and the environment, consider each of the following 
    criteria:
            (A) The potential for contributing to solutions to those 
        waste problems which pose the greatest threat to human health, 
        which cannot be adequately controlled under present 
        technologies, or which otherwise pose significant management 
        difficulties.
            (B) The availability of technologies which have been 
        sufficiently developed for field demonstration and which are 
        likely to be cost-effective and reliable.
            (C) The availability and suitability of sites for 
        demonstrating such technologies, taking into account the 
        physical, biological, chemical, and geological characteristics 
        of the sites, the extent and type of contamination found at the 
        site, and the capability to conduct demonstration projects in 
        such a manner as to assure the protection of human health and 
        the environment.
            (D) The likelihood that the data to be generated from the 
        demonstration project at the site will be applicable to other 
        sites.

                       (8) Technology transfer

        In carrying out the program, the Administrator shall conduct a 
    technology transfer program including the development, collection, 
    evaluation, coordination, and dissemination of information relating 
    to the utilization of alternative or innovative treatment 
    technologies for response actions. The Administrator shall establish 
    and maintain a central reference library for such information. The 
    information maintained by the Administrator shall be made available 
    to the public, subject to the provisions of section 552 of title 5 
    and section 1905 of title 18, and to other Government agencies in a 
    manner that will facilitate its dissemination; except, that upon a 
    showing satisfactory to the Administrator by any person that any 
    information or portion thereof obtained under this subsection by the 
    Administrator directly or indirectly from such person, would, if 
    made public, divulge--
            (A) trade secrets; or
            (B) other proprietary information of such person,

    the Administrator shall not disclose such information and disclosure 
    thereof shall be punishable under section 1905 of title 18. This 
    subsection is not authority to withhold information from Congress or 
    any committee of Congress upon the request of the chairman of such 
    committee.

                            (9) Training

        The Administrator is authorized and directed to carry out, 
    through the Office of Technology Demonstration, a program of 
    training and an evaluation of training needs for each of the 
    following:
            (A) Training in the procedures for the handling and removal 
        of hazardous substances for employees who handle hazardous 
        substances.
            (B) Training in the management of facilities at which 
        hazardous substances are located and in the evaluation of the 
        hazards to human health presented by such facilities for State 
        and local health and environment agency personnel.

                           (10) Definition

        For purposes of this subsection, the term ``alternative or 
    innovative treatment technologies'' means those technologies, 
    including proprietary or patented methods, which permanently alter 
    the composition of hazardous waste through chemical, biological, or 
    physical means so as to significantly reduce the toxicity, mobility, 
    or volume (or any combination thereof) of the hazardous waste or 
    contaminated materials being treated. The term also includes 
    technologies that characterize or assess the extent of 
    contamination, the chemical and physical character of the 
    contaminants, and the stresses imposed by the contaminants on 
    complex ecosystems at sites.

(c) Hazardous substance research

    The Administrator may conduct and support, through grants, 
cooperative agreements, and contracts, research with respect to the 
detection, assessment, and evaluation of the effects on and risks to 
human health of hazardous substances and detection of hazardous 
substances in the environment. The Administrator shall coordinate such 
research with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the advisory council established under this section, in order to avoid 
duplication of effort.

(d) University hazardous substance research centers

                          (1) Grant program

        The Administrator shall make grants to institutions of higher 
    learning to establish and operate not fewer than 5 hazardous 
    substance research centers in the United States. In carrying out the 
    program under this subsection, the Administrator should seek to have 
    established and operated 10 hazardous substance research centers in 
    the United States.

                   (2) Responsibilities of centers

        The responsibilities of each hazardous substance research center 
    established under this subsection shall include, but not be limited 
    to, the conduct of research and training relating to the 
    manufacture, use, transportation, disposal, and management of 
    hazardous substances and publication and dissemination of the 
    results of such research.

                          (3) Applications

        Any institution of higher learning interested in receiving a 
    grant under this subsection shall submit to the Administrator an 
    application in such form and containing such information as the 
    Administrator may require by regulation.

                       (4) Selection criteria

        The Administrator shall select recipients of grants under this 
    subsection on the basis of the following criteria:
            (A) The hazardous substance research center shall be located 
        in a State which is representative of the needs of the region in 
        which such State is located for improved hazardous waste 
        management.
            (B) The grant recipient shall be located in an area which 
        has experienced problems with hazardous substance management.
            (C) There is available to the grant recipient for carrying 
        out this subsection demonstrated research resources.
            (D) The capability of the grant recipient to provide 
        leadership in making national and regional contributions to the 
        solution of both long-range and immediate hazardous substance 
        management problems.
            (E) The grant recipient shall make a commitment to support 
        ongoing hazardous substance research programs with budgeted 
        institutional funds of at least $100,000 per year.
            (F) The grant recipient shall have an interdisciplinary 
        staff with demonstrated expertise in hazardous substance 
        management and research.
            (G) The grant recipient shall have a demonstrated ability to 
        disseminate results of hazardous substance research and 
        educational programs through an interdisciplinary continuing 
        education program.
            (H) The projects which the grant recipient proposes to carry 
        out under the grant are necessary and appropriate.

                      (5) Maintenance of effort

        No grant may be made under this subsection in any fiscal year 
    unless the recipient of such grant enters into such agreements with 
    the Administrator as the Administrator may require to ensure that 
    such recipient will maintain its aggregate expenditures from all 
    other sources for establishing and operating a regional hazardous 
    substance research center and related research activities at or 
    above the average level of such expenditures in its 2 fiscal years 
    preceding October 17, 1986.

                          (6) Federal share

        The Federal share of a grant under this subsection shall not 
    exceed 80 percent of the costs of establishing and operating the 
    regional hazardous substance research center and related research 
    activities carried out by the grant recipient.

                   (7) Limitation on use of funds

        No funds made available to carry out this subsection shall be 
    used for acquisition of real property (including buildings) or 
    construction of any building.

     (8) Administration through the Office of the Administrator

        Administrative responsibility for carrying out this subsection 
    shall be in the Office of the Administrator.

                 (9) Equitable distribution of funds

        The Administrator shall allocate funds made available to carry 
    out this subsection equitably among the regions of the United 
    States.

                 (10) Technology transfer activities

        Not less than five percent of the funds made available to carry 
    out this subsection for any fiscal year shall be available to carry 
    out technology transfer activities.

(e) Report to Congress

    At the time of the submission of the annual budget request to 
Congress, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate committees 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate and to the advisory 
council established under subsection (a) of this section, a report on 
the progress of the research, development, and demonstration program 
authorized by subsection (b) of this section, including an evaluation of 
each demonstration project completed in the preceding fiscal year, 
findings with respect to the efficacy of such demonstrated technologies 
in achieving permanent and significant reductions in risk from hazardous 
wastes, the costs of such demonstration projects, and the potential 
applicability of, and projected costs for, such technologies at other 
hazardous substance sites.

(f) Saving provision

    Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the provisions 
of the Solid Waste Disposal Act [42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.].

(g) Small business participation

    The Administrator shall ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, 
an adequate opportunity for small business participation in the program 
established by subsection (b) of this section.

(Pub. L. 96-510, title III, Sec. 311, as added Pub. L. 99-499, title II, 
Sec. 209(b), Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1708; amended Pub. L. 99-514, 
Sec. 2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095.)

                       References in Text

    The Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(4), is act 
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, 58 Stat. 682, as amended. Title IV of the Public 
Health Service Act is classified generally to subchapter III (Sec. 281 
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.
    The Solid Waste Disposal Act, referred to in subsec. (f), is title 
II of Pub. L. 89-272, Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 997, as amended generally 
by Pub. L. 94-580, Sec. 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2795, which is 
classified generally to chapter 82 (Sec. 6901 et seq.) of this title. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 6901 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1986--Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 99-514 substituted ``Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986'' for ``Internal Revenue Code of 1954'', which for purposes 
of codification was translated as ``title 26'' thus requiring no change 
in text.


Gulf Coast Hazardous Substance Research, Development, and Demonstration 
                                 Center

    Section 118(l) of Pub. L. 99-499 provided that:
    ``(1) Establishment of hazardous substance research, development, 
and demonstration center.--The Administrator shall establish a hazardous 
substance research, development, and demonstration center (hereinafter 
in this subsection referred to as the `Center') for the purpose of 
conducting research to aid in more effective hazardous substance 
response and waste management throughout the Gulf Coast.
    ``(2) Purposes of the center.--The Center shall carry out a program 
of research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration of 
alternative or innovative technologies which may be utilized in response 
actions or in normal handling of hazardous wastes to achieve better 
protection of human health and the environment.
    ``(3) Operation of center.--(A) For purposes of operating the 
Center, the Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts and 
cooperative agreements with, and make grants to, a university related 
institute involved with the improvement of waste management. Such 
institute shall be located in Jefferson County, Texas.
    ``(B) The Center shall be authorized to make grants, accept 
contributions, and enter into agreements with universities located in 
the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida in 
order to carry out the purposes of the Center.
    ``(4) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Administrator for purposes of carrying out this 
subsection for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, not more 
than $5,000,000.''


    Pacific Northwest Hazardous Substance Research, Development, and 
                          Demonstration Center

    Section 118(o) of Pub. L. 99-499 provided that:
    ``(1) Establishment.--The Administrator shall establish a hazardous 
substance research, development, and demonstration center (hereinafter 
in this subsection referred to as the `Center') for the purpose of 
conducting research to aid in more effective hazardous substance 
response in the Pacific Northwest.
    ``(2) Purposes of center.--The Center shall carry out a program of 
research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration of 
alternative or innovative technologies which may be utilized in response 
actions to achieve more permanent protection of human health and welfare 
and the environment.
    ``(3) Operation of center.--
        ``(A) Nonprofit entity.--For the purposes of operating the 
    Center, the Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts and 
    cooperative agreements with, and make grants to, a nonprofit private 
    entity as defined in section 201(i) of Public Law 96-517 [probably 
    means section 201(i) of Title 35, Patents, which was enacted by 
    section 6(a) of Pub. L. 96-517, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3020] which 
    entity shall agree to provide the basic technical and management 
    personnel. Such nonprofit private entity shall also agree to provide 
    at least two permanent research facilities, one of which shall be 
    located in Benton County, Washington, and one of which shall be 
    located in Clallam County, Washington.
        ``(B) Authorities.--The Center shall be authorized to make 
    grants, accept contributions, and enter into agreements with 
    universities located in the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and 
    Montana in order to carry out the purposes of the Center.
    ``(4) Hazardous waste research at the hanford site.--
        ``(A) Interagency agreements.--The Administrator and the 
    Secretary of Energy are authorized to enter into interagency 
    agreements with one another for the purpose of providing for 
    research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration into 
    alternative or innovative technologies to characterize and assess 
    the nature and extent of hazardous waste (including radioactive 
    mixed waste) contamination at the Hanford site, in the State of 
    Washington.
        ``(B) Funding.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
    Secretary of Energy for purposes of carrying out this paragraph for 
    fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, not more than 
    $5,000,000. All sums appropriated under this subparagraph shall be 
    provided to the Administrator by the Secretary of Energy, pursuant 
    to the interagency agreement entered into under subparagraph (A), 
    for the purpose of the Administrator entering into contracts and 
    cooperative agreements with, and making grants to, the Center in 
    order to carry out the research, evaluation, testing, development, 
    and demonstration described in paragraph (1).
    ``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Administrator for purposes of carrying out this 
subsection (other than paragraph (4)) for fiscal years beginning after 
September 30, 1986, not more than $5,000,000.''


                   Congressional Statement of Purpose

    Section 209(a) of Pub. L. 99-499 provided that: ``The purposes of 
this section [enacting this section] are as follows:
        ``(1) To establish a comprehensive and coordinated Federal 
    program of research, development, demonstration, and training for 
    the purpose of promoting the development of alternative and 
    innovative treatment technologies that can be used in response 
    actions under the CERCLA program, to provide incentives for the 
    development and use of such technologies, and to improve the 
    scientific capability to assess, detect and evaluate the effects on 
    and risks to human health from hazardous substances.
        ``(2) To establish a basic university research and education 
    program within the Department of Health and Human Services and a 
    research, demonstration, and training program within the 
    Environmental Protection Agency.
        ``(3) To reserve certain funds from the Hazardous Substance 
    Trust Fund to support a basic research program within the Department 
    of Health and Human Services, and an applied and developmental 
    research program within the Environmental Protection Agency.
        ``(4) To enhance the Environmental Protection Agency's internal 
    research capabilities related to CERCLA activities, including site 
    assessment and technology evaluation.
        ``(5) To provide incentives for the development of alternative 
    and innovative treatment technologies in a manner that supplements 
    or coordinates with, but does not compete with or duplicate, private 
    sector development of such technologies.''


                    Termination of Advisory Councils

    Advisory councils established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of 
their establishment, unless, in the case of a council established by the 
President or an officer of the Federal Government, such council is 
renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year 
period, or in the case of a council established by the Congress, its 
duration is otherwise provided by law. See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. 
L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 776, set out in the Appendix to 
Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 9611, 9619, 9659 of this 
title; title 10 section 2702.
