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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 72 — Semiconductor Research

§ 4627. Cost-sharing agreements

Statutory text

(a)

Permitted provisions

The director of each national laboratory of the Department of Energy that is participating in the Initiative or the contractor operating any such national laboratory, in carrying out programs under a contract with the Department of Energy, may include in any research and development agreement entered into with a domestic firm in connection with such Initiative a cooperative provision for the domestic firm to pay a portion of the cost of the research and development activities.

(b)

Limitations

(1)

Not more than an amount equal to 1 percent of any national laboratory’s annual budget shall be received from nonappropriated funds derived from contracts entered into under the Initiative in any fiscal year, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy.

(2)

No Department of Energy national laboratory may receive more than $10,000,000 of nonappropriated funds under any cooperative research and development agreement entered into under this subsection in connection with the Initiative, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988

    Pub. L. 100–180 div. C title I § 3147 · 101 Stat. 1019

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 4627

    (Pub. L. 100–180, div. C, title I, § 3147, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1244.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–180, div. C, title I, § 3147, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1244.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 3147. COST-SHARING AGREEMENTS (a) Permitted Provisions.— The director of each national laboratory of the Department of Energy that is participating in the Initiative or the contractor operating any such national laboratory, in carrying out programs under a contract with the Department of Energy, may include in any research and development agreement entered into with a domestic firm in connection with such Initiative a cooperative provision for the domestic firm to pay a portion of the cost of the research and development activities. (b) Limitations.— (1) Not more than an amount equal to 1 percent of any national laboratory’s annual budget shall be received from nonappropriated funds derived from contracts entered into under the Initiative in any fiscal year, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy. (2) No Department of Energy national laboratory may receive more than $10,000,000 of nonappropriated funds under any cooperative research and development agreement entered into under this subsection in connection with the Initiative, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–180, div. C, title I, § 3147, , 101 Stat. 1244.)

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