Environmental Quality Education Act of 1970: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, First Session ...

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Page 149 - Invention or discovery" includes any art, machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable under the patent laws of the United States of America or any foreign country. (c) "Contractor" means any individual, partnership, public or private corporation, association, institution, or other entity which is a party to the contract. (d) "Contract...
Page 108 - Federal funds made available under this section for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical...
Page 125 - environmental education" means the educational process dealing with man's relationship with his natural and manmade surroundings, and includes the relation of population, pollution, resource allocation and depletion, conservation, transportation, technology, and urban and rural planning to the total human environment.
Page 110 - Education. (b) In administering the provisions of this Act for which he is responsible, the Commissioner is authorized to utilize the services and facilities of any agency of...
Page 108 - ... (v) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this...
Page 148 - Department, as a matter of policy, takes the position that the results of research supported by grants of public moneys should be utilized in the manner which would best serve the public interest. It is believed that the public interest will in general be best served if...
Page 125 - DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED - Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states: "No person In the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
Page 149 - Government) of assignment and application, and such other papers as are deemed necessary to vest in the Government the...
Page 109 - ... unless the Director determines, pursuant to regulations adopted and promulgated by him establishing objective criteria for such determinations, that assistance in excess of such percentage is required in furtherance of the purposes of this part. Non-Federal contributions may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including but not limited to plant, equipment, and services...
Page 108 - ... to support research, demonstration, and pilot projects designed to educate the public on the problems of environmental quality and ecological balance, except that no grant may be made other than to a nonprofit agency, organization or institution.

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