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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§10305 Development of Water-related Technology

Title 42 › CHAPTER 109 — WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH › § 10305

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give extra grants to develop any kind of water technology that is important to a State, region, or the whole country. Schools, private companies, foundations, people, and state or local agencies can do the work. The Secretary must protect private companies’ secret information. The Secretary can require grant recipients to provide matching money, but institutes set up under section 10303 cannot be made to match more than that section requires. Applications must say what the project is, who will run it and their qualifications, what facilities will be used, why it matters locally and nationally, and what benefits are expected. Congress authorized $6,000,000 per year for each fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, through September 30, 1995; the funds remain available until spent.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §10305

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(a)Grants; matching funds
(1)The Secretary shall make grants in addition to those authorized under section 10303 and 10304 of this title for technology development concerning any aspect of water resources including water-related technology which the Secretary may deem to be of State, regional, or national importance. Activities funded under this section may be carried out by educational institutions, private firms, foundations, individuals, or agencies of State or local government. Care shall be taken to protect proprietary information of private individuals or firms associated with the technology.
(2)The Secretary may establish any condition for the matching of funds by the recipient of any grant or contract under this section which the Secretary considers to be in the best interest of the Nation considering the information transfer and technology needs of the Nation. However, in the case of institutes established by section 10303 of this title no match greater than that required under section 10303 of this title may be required.
(b)Applications for grants
Each application for a grant under this section shall state the nature of the project to be undertaken, the qualifications of the personnel who will direct and conduct it, facilities of the organization performing any technology development, the importance of the project to the Nation, region, and State concerned, and the potential benefit to be accrued.
(c)Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary the sum of $6,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out this section for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1990, through September 30, 1995; such sums to remain available until expended.

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Amendments

1990—Pub. L. 101–397, in amending section generally, in subsec. (a)(1) struck out provision directing that grant be made on basis of merit and feasibility of project, in subsec. (a)(2) inserted provisions relating to match in the case of institutes established by section 10303 of this title, and in subsec. (c) substituted provisions authorizing $6,000,000 appropriation for fiscal years 1990 through 1995, for provisions authorizing the same sum for fiscal years 1985 through 1989, and struck out provisions authorizing obligation of funds under this section and par. (1) and (2) designations.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 10305

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110