§ 12405. Technology transfer program

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. 1990

   Spark M. Matsunaga Hydrogen Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1990

   Pub. L. 101–566 § 106 · 104 Stat. 2797

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12405

   Pub. L. 101–566, § 106, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2799

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 101–566, § 106, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2799

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 106. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM. (a) Program.— The Secretary shall conduct a program designed to accelerate wider application of hydrogen production, storage, utilization, and other technologies available in near term as a result of aerospace experience as well as other research progress by transferring critical technologies to the private sector. The Secretary shall direct the program with the advice and assistance of the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel established under section 108. The objective in seeking this advice is to increase participation of private industry in the demonstration of near commercial applications through cooperative research and development arrangements, joint ventures or other appropriate arrangements involving the private sector. (b) Information.— The Secretary, in carrying out the program authorized by subsection (a), shall— (1) undertake an inventory and assessment of hydrogen technologies and their commercial capability to economically produce, store, or utilize hydrogen in aerospace, transportation, electric utilities, petrochemical, chemical, merchant hydrogen, and other industrial sectors; and (2) develop a National Aeronautics Space Administration, Department of Energy, and industry information exchange program to improve technology transfer for— (A) application of aerospace experience by industry; (B) application of research progress by industry and aerospace; (C) application of commercial capability of industry by aerospace; and (D) expression of industrial needs to research organizations. The information exchange program may consist of workshops, publications, conferences, and a data base for the use by the public and private sectors.

2. 1996

   Hydrogen Future Act of 1996

   Pub. L. 104–271 title I § 105 · 110 Stat. 3304

   Inserted · 42 U.S.C. § 12405(b)

   Pub. L. 104–271 inserted at end “The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–271 inserted at end “The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 105. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. Section 106(b) of Public Law 101–566 (42 U.S.C. 12405(b)) is amended by adding to the end of the subsection the following: “The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.”.

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