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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 8 8 3 - S E P T. 2, 1958
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other plants shall follow at intervals of not more than three months. Report lo conEach such decision shall be reported promptly to the Congress and ^^••"* the construction of the plants shall proceed as rapidly as is possible. (b) The construction of the demonstration plants referred to above shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) Not less than three plants shall be designed for the conversion of sea water, and each of two plants so designed shall have a capacity of not less than one million gallons per day; (2) Not less than two plants shall be designed for the treatment of brackish water, and at least one of the plants so designed shall have a capacity of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand gallons per day; and (3) Such plants shall be located in the following geographical areas with a view to demonstrating optimum utility from the standpoint of reliable operation, maintenance, and economic potential— (A) At least one plant which is designed for the conversion of sea water shall be located on the west coast of the United States, at least one such plant shall be located on the east coast thereof, and at least one such plant shall be located on the gulf coast thereof; and (B) at least one plant which is designed for the treatment of brackish water shall be located in the area generally described as the Northern Great Plains and at least one such plant shall be located in the arid areas of the Southwest. (c) As used in this joint resolution, the term "demonstration plant" means a plant of sufficient size and capacity to establish on a day-today operating basis the optimum attainable reliability, engineering, operating, and economic potential of the particular sea water conversion process or the brackish water treatment process selected by the Secretary of the Interior for utilization in such plant. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall enter into a contract contracts. or contracts for the construction of the demonstration plants referred to in the preceding section, and the Secretary shall enter into a separate contract or contracts for the operation and maintenance of such plants. Any such operation and maintenance contract shall provide for the compilation by the contractor of complete records with respect to the operation, maintenance, and engineering of the plant or plants specified in the contract. The records so compiled shall be made available to the public by the Secretary at periodic and reasonable intervals with a view to demonstrating the most feasible existing rocesses for desalting sea water and treating brackish water. Access y the public to the demonstration plants herein provided for shall be assured during all phases of construction and operation subject to such reasonable restrictions as to time and place as the Secretary of the Interior may require or approve. SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to accept financial and other a^c".^^'^ assistassistance from any State or public agency in connection with studies, surveys, location, construction, operation, or other work relating to saline or brackish water conversion problems and facilities for such conversion, and to enter into contracts with respect to such assistance, which contracts shall detail the purposes for which the assistance is contributed. Any funds so contributed shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary in like manner as if they had been specifically appropriated for purposes for which they are contributed, and any funds not expended for these purposes shall be returned to the State or public agency from which they were received. SEC. 4. The authority of the Secretary of the Interior under this Termination of joint resolution to construct, operate, and maintain demonstration ^"**^°'""y* plants shall terminate upon the expiration of seven years after the date on which this joint resolution is approved. Upon the expiration
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