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Summary

The Secretary can give matching research grants for water problems that affect the nation. Recipients must match the grant dollar for dollar. Eligible recipients include the institutes set up under section 10303, colleges, private foundations and firms, individuals, and local or State agencies. Grants will be picked with advice from expert reviewers across relevant fields, and the Secretary will fund projects based on their quality and the knowledge they will produce. Where possible, the research should use top graduate students so they get training and benefit from new technology. Applications must say what the project is, how long it will run, who will lead it and their qualifications, why it matters to the Nation and the local area, how it links to other research, and how it will train water scientists. Congress authorized $10,000,000 a year for this from the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and the money can be used until spent.

Title 42, §10304

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(a)Grants; matching funds

(1)In addition to the grants authorized by section 10303 of this title, the Secretary is authorized to make grants, on a dollar-for-dollar matching basis, to the institutes established under such section, as well as other qualified educational institutions, private foundations, private firms, individuals, and agencies of local or State government for research concerning any aspect of a water resource-related problem which the Secretary may deem to be in the national interest. Such grants shall be made with such advice and review by peer or other expert groups of appropriate interdisciplinary composition as the Secretary deems appropriate on the basis of the merits of the project and the need for the knowledge such project is expected to produce upon completion.

(2)Research funded under this section should to the extent possible utilize the best qualified graduate students so the Nation profits from the education and training benefits resulting from the use of the latest in technological developments in solving water problems.

(b)Applications for grants

Each application for a grant under this section shall state the nature of the project to be undertaken, the period during which it will be pursued, the qualifications of the personnel who will direct and conduct it, the importance of the project to the Nation as well as to the region and State concerned, its relation to other research projects previously or currently being pursued, and the extent to which it will provide an opportunity for the training of water resources scientists.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary the sum of $10,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out this section for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1985, through September 30, 1995, such sums to remain available until expended.

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1990—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 101–397, § 1(i), struck out par. (3) which read as follows: “In cases where the Secretary determines, in accordance with criteria established by him, that research under this section is of a basic nature which would not otherwise be undertaken, the Secretary may approve grants under this section with a matching requirement other than that specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection.” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–397, § 1(j), substituted “$10,000,000” for “$20,000,000” and “1995” for “1989”.

§10304 Research Concerning Water Resource-related Problems Deemed to Be in National Interest

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Title 42, §10304

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