Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 16 — National Science Foundation
§ 1886. Data collection and analysis
Statutory text
The National Science Foundation is authorized to design, establish, and maintain a data collection and analysis capability in the Foundation for the purpose of identifying and assessing the research facilities needs of universities. The needs of universities, by major field of science and engineering, for construction and modernization of research laboratories, including fixed equipment and major research equipment, shall be documented. University expenditures for the construction and modernization of research facilities, the sources of funds, and other appropriate data shall be collected and analyzed. The Foundation, in conjunction with other appropriate Federal agencies, shall conduct the necessary surveys every 2 years and report the results to the Congress. The first report shall be submitted to the Congress by .
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.
National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986
Pub. L. 99–159 title I § 108 · 99 Stat. 887
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1886
(Pub. L. 99–159, title I, § 108, Nov. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 888.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 99–159, title I, § 108, Nov. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 888.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 108. data collection and analysis The National Science Foundation is authorized to design, establish, and maintain a data collection and analysis capability in the Foundation for the purpose of identifying and assessing the research facilities needs of universities. The needs of universities, by major field of science and engineering, for construction and modernization of research laboratories, including fixed equipment and major research equipment, shall be documented. University expenditures for the construction and modernization of research facilities, the sources of funds, and other appropriate data shall be collected and analyzed. The Foundation, in conjunction with other Report. appropriate Federal agencies, shall conduct the necessary surveys every 2 years and report the results to the Congress. The first report shall be submitted to the Congress by September 1, 1986.
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986, and not as part of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.