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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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmental Tech-
nology Demonstration Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The development and deployment of envi-
ronmental technologies can enhance the economic
competitiveness and the environmental security of
the United States.
(2) The Federal Government has facilities
which can assist and catalyze efforts of industry in
developing and deploying new environmental tech-
nologies.
SEC. 3. USE OF FEDERAL FACILITIES FOR ENVIRON-
MENTAL TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency shall establish a program
to demonstrate the performance of environmental tech-
nologies at Federal laboratories and other Federal facili-
ties.
(b) QUALIFYING
TECHNOLOGY
DEMONSTRATION
PROJECTS.—Technologies that qualify for demonstration
under such program include—
(1) environmental technologies that can be ap-
plied to a major pollution control or remediation
need, as determined by the Administrator, at a Fed-
eral laboratory or other Federal facility;
(2) environmental technologies the development
of which would be significantly advanced by unique
facilities or capabilities of a Federal laboratory or
other Federal facility; and
(3) other environmental technologies that the
Administration considers to have significant poten-
tial as an environmental technology that will contrib-
ute to sustainable economic growth.
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—As part of the program estab-
lished under this section, the Administrator—
(1) may enter into cooperative agreements with
other Federal departments and agencies for the pur-
pose of demonstrating the performance of environ-
mental technologies;
(2) may enter into contracts and cooperative
agreements for such purpose with organizations se-
lected under paragraph (7);
(3) except as provided in paragraph (4), may
not provide Federal resources under a cooperative
agreement referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) in
an amount that exceeds one-half of the total cost of
carrying out services and activities under the agree-
ment;
(4) may make special provisions for small busi-
nesses, including the provision of Federal resources
under a cooperative agreement entered into with a
small business under paragraph (1) or (2) in an
amount that exceeds one-half of the total cost of car-
rying out services and activities under the agree-
ment;
(5) shall establish procedures to solicit and ac-
cept applications for environmental technologies for
demonstration under this program;
(6) shall, in consultation and cooperation with
other Federal agencies, make available information
about the facilities and expertise available at Federal
laboratories that would be valuable to the dem-
onstration of environmental technologies and about
sites at Federal laboratories or other Federal facili-
ties potentially available for testing environmental
technologies, characterized by specific site character-
istics, including site geology and site contaminants
where appropriate;
(7) shall establish procedures for the merit-
based review of all applications for demonstration
projects under this program through a process that
includes representatives of industry and United
States nonprofit organizations and select organiza-
tions to carry out such projects based upon such
procedures;
(8) shall document the performance and cost of
characteristics of the environmental technology dem-
onstrated; and
(9) shall list and disseminate nonproprietary in-
formation regarding the performance and cost char-
acteristics of the environmental technologies dem-
onstrated pursuant to this Act.
(d) QUALIFYING ORGANIZATIONS.—Entities eligible
to carry out a demonstration project as part of the pro-
gram established under subsection (a) are United States
companies (including small businesses), United States
nonprofit organizations, United States institutions of
higher education, and other organizations that the Admin-
istrator considers appropriate.
(e) PROGRAM EVALUATION AND REPORTING.—The
Administrator shall, in cooperation with other Federal
agencies and in consultation with the United States com-
panies and United States nonprofit organizations, annu-
ally submit to the Congress a report that evaluates the
performance of the program, including a statement of—
(1) the number of environmental technologies
tested and the type of problems addressed;
(2) the number of environmental technologies
demonstrated in the program that have since become
commercially viable and their estimated impact; and
(3) the Federal and non-Federal financial re-
sources committed to the program.
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act:
(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) The term ‘‘environmental technology’’
means—
(A) a technology that is primarily intended
to improve the quality of the environment
through pollution reduction or remediation;
(B) a product, manufacturing process, or
service that is capable of cost-effectively replac-
ing the functions of an existing product, proc-
ess, or service, and as compared with the prod-
uct, process, or service it replaces, significantly
reducing overall pollution or significantly im-
proving the efficiency of energy or materials
use; or
(C) a technology within the meaning of
subparagraphs (A) and (B).
(3) The term ‘‘Federal laboratory’’ means a
Government-owned, 
Government-operated 
labora-
tory, or a Government-owned, contractor-operated
laboratory.
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