A bill to extend certain authorities of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to water resources research and development and saline water conversion research and development programs, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Amends the Water Research and Development Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to require State institutes to review proposals and advise the Secretary of the relevance of such proposals to the State's water resources research and development needs. Makes any State or local government agency or academic institution eligible to participate in the matching grant program activities of their State institute. Authorizes appropriations as necessary through fiscal year 1982 for such program. Removes the limitation on the number of desalting plants demonstrating the engineering and economic viability of membrane and phase-change desalting processes to be constructed by the Secretary of the Interior. Specifies conditions such plants must meet. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct such demonstrations by means of cooperative agreements with non-Federal public entities. Requires reports to Congress concerning such plants to include information on how the proposed plant differs from others already constructed. Revises the terms of proposed contracts or cooperative agreements between the Secretary and a non-Federal entity to require such entity to provide between 15 and 50 perce…