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kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 402.6"
title: "30"
number: "402.6"
heading: "Water-Resources Research Program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/402.6"
---

# §402.6. Water-Resources Research Program.

- (a) 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.
- (b) The types of research to be undertaken under this program are listed below, without indication of priority:
  - (1) Aspects of the hydrologic cycle;
  - (2) Supply and demand for water;
  - (3) Demineralization of saline and other impaired waters;
  - (4) Conservation and best use of available supplies of water and methods of increasing such supplies;
  - (5) Water reuse;
  - (6) Depletion and degradation of groundwater supplies;
  - (7) Improvements in the productivity of water when used for agricultural, municipal, and commercial purposes; and
  - (8) The economic, legal, engineering, social, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other aspects of water problems.
  - (9) Scientific information-dissemination activities, including identifying, assembling, and interpreting the results of scientific and engineering research on water-resources problems.
  - (10) Providing means for improved communications of research results, having due regard for the varying conditions and needs for the respective States and regions.

## Notes

### 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.