§402.6. Water-Resources Research Program.
30 C.F.R. § 402.6
Subject to the availability of appropriated funds, the Water-Resources Research Program will provide support, in the form of a dollar-for-dollar matching grant, to educational institutions, private foundations, private firms, individuals, and agencies of local or State governments for research concerning any aspect of a water-resource related problem deemed to be in the national interest. Federal agencies are excluded from receiving matching grants. Grants may be awarded on other than a dollar-for-dollar matching basis in cases where the USGS determines that research on a high-priority subject is of a basic nature that otherwise would not be undertaken.
The types of research to be undertaken under this program are listed below, without indication of priority:
Aspects of the hydrologic cycle;
Supply and demand for water;
Demineralization of saline and other impaired waters;
Conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasing such supplies;
Water reuse;
Depletion and degradation of groundwater supplies;
Improvements in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, and commercial purposes; and
The economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of water problems.
Scientific information-dissemination activities, including identifying, assembling, and interpreting the results of scientific and engineering research on water-resources problems.
Providing means for improved communications of research results, having due regard for the varying conditions and needs for the respective States and regions.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: Secs. 105 and 106, Pub. L. 98-242, 98 Stat. 97 (42 U.S.C. 10304 and 10305).
Source
Source: 51 FR 20963, June 10, 1986, unless otherwise noted.