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43 USC 2226 - Technical assistance and transfer of precipitation management technology

U.S. Code > Title 43 > Chapter 40 > Subchapter II > § 2226 - Technical assistance and transfer of precipitation management technology

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(a) Technical assistance
  The Secretary is authorized to provide technical assistance for
drought contingency planning in any of the States not identified in
section 391 of this title, and the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and upon
termination of the Trusteeship, the Republic of Palau, the United
States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands.
(b) Technology Transfer Program
  The Secretary is authorized to conduct a Precipitation Management
Technology Transfer Program to help alleviate problems caused by
precipitation variability and droughts in the West, as part of a
balanced long-term water resources development and management
program. In consultation with State, tribal, and local water,
hydropower, water quality and instream flow interests, areas shall
be selected for conducting field studies cost-shared on a 50-50
basis to validate and quantify the potential for appropriate
precipitation management technology to augment stream flows.
Validated technologies shall be transferred to non-Federal
interests for operational implementation.

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