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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 3530

To provide for the use of Federal facilities to demonstrate environmental

technologies.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOVEMBER 18, 1993

Mr. SWETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee

on Science, Space, and Technology

A BILL

To provide for the use of Federal facilities to demonstrate

environmental technologies.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmental Tech5 nology Demonstration Act of 1993’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 The Congress finds the following:

8 (1) The development and deployment of envi9 ronmental technologies can enhance the economic
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1 competitiveness and the environmental security of

2 the United States.

3 (2) The Federal Government has facilities

4 which can assist and catalyze efforts of industry in

5 developing and deploying new environmental tech6 nologies.

7 SEC. 3. USE OF FEDERAL FACILITIES FOR ENVIRON8 MENTAL TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION.

9 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the En10 vironmental Protection Agency shall establish a program

11 to demonstrate the performance of environmental tech12 nologies at Federal laboratories and other Federal facili13 ties.

14 (b) QUALIFYING TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION

15 PROJECTS.—Technologies that qualify for demonstration

16 under such program include—

17 (1) environmental technologies that can be ap18 plied to a major pollution control or remediation

19 need, as determined by the Administrator, at a Fed20 eral laboratory or other Federal facility;

21 (2) environmental technologies the development

22 of which would be significantly advanced by unique

23 facilities or capabilities of a Federal laboratory or

24 other Federal facility; and
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1 (3) other environmental technologies that the

2 Administration considers to have significant poten3 tial as an environmental technology that will contrib4 ute to sustainable economic growth.

5 (c) ADMINISTRATION.—As part of the program estab6 lished under this section, the Administrator—

7 (1) may enter into cooperative agreements with

8 other Federal departments and agencies for the pur9 pose of demonstrating the performance of environ10 mental technologies;

11 (2) may enter into contracts and cooperative

12 agreements for such purpose with organizations se13 lected under paragraph (7);

14 (3) except as provided in paragraph (4), may

15 not provide Federal resources under a cooperative

16 agreement referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) in

17 an amount that exceeds one-half of the total cost of

18 carrying out services and activities under the agree19 ment;

20 (4) may make special provisions for small busi21 nesses, including the provision of Federal resources

22 under a cooperative agreement entered into with a

23 small business under paragraph (1) or (2) in an

24 amount that exceeds one-half of the total cost of car-
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1 rying out services and activities under the agree2 ment;

3 (5) shall establish procedures to solicit and ac4 cept applications for environmental technologies for

5 demonstration under this program;

6 (6) shall, in consultation and cooperation with

7 other Federal agencies, make available information

8 about the facilities and expertise available at Federal

9 laboratories that would be valuable to the dem10 onstration of environmental technologies and about

11 sites at Federal laboratories or other Federal facili12 ties potentially available for testing environmental

13 technologies, characterized by specific site character14 istics, including site geology and site contaminants

15 where appropriate;

16 (7) shall establish procedures for the merit17 based review of all applications for demonstration

18 projects under this program through a process that

19 includes representatives of industry and United

20 States nonprofit organizations and select organiza21 tions to carry out such projects based upon such

22 procedures;

23 (8) shall document the performance and cost of

24 characteristics of the environmental technology dem25 onstrated; and
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1 (9) shall list and disseminate nonproprietary in2 formation regarding the performance and cost char3 acteristics of the environmental technologies dem4 onstrated pursuant to this Act.

5 (d) QUALIFYING ORGANIZATIONS.—Entities eligible

6 to carry out a demonstration project as part of the pro7 gram established under subsection (a) are United States

8 companies (including small businesses), United States

9 nonprofit organizations, United States institutions of

10 higher education, and other organizations that the Admin11 istrator considers appropriate.

12 (e) PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REPORTING.—The

13 Administrator shall, in cooperation with other Federal

14 agencies and in consultation with the United States com15 panies and United States nonprofit organizations, annu16 ally submit to the Congress a report that evaluates the

17 performance of the program, including a statement of—

18 (1) the number of environmental technologies

19 tested and the type of problems addressed;

20 (2) the number of environmental technologies

21 demonstrated in the program that have since become

22 commercially viable and their estimated impact; and

23 (3) the Federal and non-Federal financial re24 sources committed to the program.
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1 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

2 For the purposes of this Act:

3 (1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad4 ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

5 (2) The term ‘‘environmental technology’’

6 means—

7 (A) a technology that is primarily intended

8 to improve the quality of the environment

9 through pollution reduction or remediation;

10 (B) a product, manufacturing process, or

11 service that is capable of cost-effectively replac12 ing the functions of an existing product, proc13 ess, or service, and as compared with the prod14 uct, process, or service it replaces, significantly

15 reducing overall pollution or significantly im16 proving the efficiency of energy or materials

17 use; or

18 (C) a technology within the meaning of

19 subparagraphs (A) and (B).

20 (3) The term ‘‘Federal laboratory’’ means a

21 Government-owned, Government-operated labora22 tory, or a Government-owned, contractor-operated

23 laboratory.

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