Volume 81 · 78
Public Law 90–30
To authorize appropriations for the saline water conversion program, to expand the program, and for other purposes.
Approved June 24, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for the saline water conversion program, to expand the program, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of July 3, 1952 (66 Stat. 328), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1951 et seq.), is hereby further amended as follows:
In section 8 strike out “$90,000,000, plus such additional sums as the Congress may hereafter authorize and appropriate but not to exceed $185,000,000,” and insert “$105,782,000, plus such additional sums as the Congress may hereafter authorize and appropriate but not to exceed $169,218,000,”.
In subsection 2(b) after “laboratory,” insert “test bed,”.
At the end of subsection 2(b) change the semicolon to a colon
Report to congressional committees.
and add the following: “Provided, That a detailed report concerning any test bed plant, module, or component costing in excess of $1,000,000 shall be submitted to the respective Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives: Provided further, That the five demonstration plants authorized by the Act of September 2, 1958 (70 Stat. 1706), as amended (42 U.S.C.
1958(d)), shall hereafter be regarded as test beds subject to the provisions of this Act, but the provisions of sections 3 and 6 of such Act and those provisions of section 4 relating to the method of disposal and disposition of the proceeds of sale shall continue to be applicable to them;”.
In subsection 2(c) strike out “demonstration” and insert “prototype”.
By adding a new section 9 to read as follows: “This Act may be cited as the ‘Saline Water Conversion Act’.”
Sec. 2.
Of the amount of $105,782,000 authorized to be appropriated by section 8 of the Saline Water Conversion Act, the unappropriated balance of $23,282,000 may be appropriated and combined with $3,500,000 heretofore appropriated but remaining unobligated at the end of fiscal year 1967, to carry out the program during the fiscal year 1968, as follows:
Research and development operating expenses, not more than $18,532,000;
Design, construction, acquisition, modification, operation, and maintenance of saline water conversion test beds and test facilities, not more than $4,298,000;
Design, construction, acquisition, modification, operation, and maintenance of saline water conversion modules, not more than $2, 190,000;
Administration and coordination, not more than $1,762,-000:
Provided, however, That expenditures and obligations under any of these items except the last may be increased by not more than 10 per centum if such increase is accompanied by an equal decrease in expenditures and obligations under one or more of the other items, including the last.
Approved June 24, 1967.