; (4) that demonstrably leverage the experience of or partner with— (A) international entities with considerable expertise in desalination, such as Israel; or (B) nonprofit water research foundations or institutions with expertise in technology innovation to advance sustainable desalination processes or brine management; (5) located in a region that— (A) is impacted by salinity or brackish groundwater; and (B) has agricultural production of national importance; (6) that support regional stakeholder-based planning and implementation efforts to manage brine and salinity for sustainability and improvement of groundwater quality within an approved basin plan; (7) that maximize the use of renewable energy to power desalination facilities; (8) that maximize energy efficiency so that the lifecycle energy demands of desalination are minimized; (9) located in a region that has employed strategies to increase water conservation and the capture and recycling of wastewater and stormwater; and (10) that, in the case of ocean desalination facilities— (A) (i) use a subsurface intake; or (ii) if a subsurface intake is not feasible, use an intake that uses the best available site, design, technology, and mitigation measures to minimize the mortality of all forms of marine life and impacts to coastal-dependent resources; (B) are sited and designed to ensure that the disposal of wastewater (including brine from the desalination process)— (i) is not discharged in a manner that increases salinity levels in Federal or State marine protected areas; and (ii) achieves ambient salinity levels within a reasonable distance from the discharge point; (C) are sited, designed, and operated in a manner that maintains indigenous marine life and a healthy and diverse marine community within a reasonable distance from the discharge point; (D) do not cause significant unmitigated harm to aquatic life