§6984 Full-scale demonstration facilities

Summary

The Administrator may make contracts or give grants to build and run full-scale demonstration facilities, but only if five findings are met. The facility must show a new or much improved technology or a practical improvement in solid waste handling (or prove an untested method works and is cost effective) and must not duplicate any federal, state, local, or commercial facility already built or under construction. The project must meet the requirements of section 6981 and other parts of the law, be able to follow the guidelines under section 6907 and other health and environmental rules, be unlikely to be built or funded by others, and any federal ownership or support must be ended or paid out when no longer needed. No contracts for financial help may be made after ten years after October 21, 1976, and no money may be spent after fourteen years after October 21, 1976. Where practical, the Administrator must seek cost sharing with other governments or private parties and arrange monitoring of facilities. If the Administrator only supplies monitoring staff, tools, or funds for those and no other aid, then inventions made at the facility do not have to become the property of the United States and patents do not have to be issued to the United States. After October 21, 1976, the Administrator may not directly build or run a full-scale facility except by contract with others.