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# 42 U.S.C. § 16297 - Complex Well Technology Testing Facility

## Text

The Secretary, in coordination with industry leaders in extended research drilling technology, shall establish a Complex Well Technology Testing Facility at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center to increase the range of extended drilling technologies.

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 967, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 894.)