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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part C · Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7278a. Availability of funds for energy and water development for multiyear contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements of $1,000,000 or less

Statutory text

Notwithstanding section 301(c) of this Act, none of the funds made available under the heading “Department of Energy—Energy Programs—Science” in this or any subsequent Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations Act for any fiscal year may be used for a multiyear contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement of $1,000,000 or less unless the contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement is funded for the full period of performance as anticipated at the time of award.

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. Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016

    Pub. L. 114–113 div. D title III § 306 · 129 Stat. 2242

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7278a

    (Pub. L. 114–113, div. D, title III, § 306, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2418.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 114–113, div. D, title III, § 306, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2418.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 306. Notwithstanding section 301(c) of this Act, none of the funds made available under the heading “Department of Energy—Energy Programs—Science” in this or any subsequent Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations Act for any fiscal year may be used for a multiyear contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement of $1,000,000 or less unless the contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or Other Transaction Agreement is funded for the full period of performance as anticipated at the time of award.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 301(c) of this Act, referred to in text, means section 301(c) of Pub. L. 114–113, div. D, title III, , 129 Stat. 2416, which is not classified to the Code.

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 114–113, div. D, title III, § 306, , 129 Stat. 2418.)

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