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[CITE: 43USC2226]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
         CHAPTER 40--RECLAMATION STATES EMERGENCY DROUGHT RELIEF
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--DROUGHT CONTINGENCY PLANNING
 
Sec. 2226. Technical assistance and transfer of precipitation 
        management technology
        

(a) Technical assistance

    The Secretary is authorized to provide technical assistance for 
drought contingency planning in any of the States not identified in 
section 391 of this title, and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 
the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of 
Micronesia, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and upon 
termination of the Trusteeship, the Republic of Palau, the United States 
Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands.

(b) Technology Transfer Program

    The Secretary is authorized to conduct a Precipitation Management 
Technology Transfer Program to help alleviate problems caused by 
precipitation variability and droughts in the West, as part of a 
balanced long-term water resources development and management program. 
In consultation with State, tribal, and local water, hydropower, water 
quality and instream flow interests, areas shall be selected for 
conducting field studies cost-shared on a 50-50 basis to validate and 
quantify the potential for appropriate precipitation management 
technology to augment stream flows. Validated technologies shall be 
transferred to non-Federal interests for operational implementation.

(Pub. L. 102-250, title II, Sec. 206, Mar. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 58.)

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
