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title: "42 U.S.C. § 6954"
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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 6954 - Technology promotion

## Text

The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to evaluate the commercial feasibility of resource recovery facilities and to publish the results of such evaluation, and to develop a data base for purposes of assisting persons in choosing such a system.

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 5004, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2821.)