§12405 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must run a program to speed the use of hydrogen production, storage, and use technologies from aerospace and other research by moving key tech to private companies, with advice from the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel and by involving companies in demonstrations through cooperative agreements. The Secretary must also inventory and assess hydrogen technologies’ readiness for aerospace, transportation, utilities, petrochemical and chemical industries, merchant hydrogen, and other sectors, and set up a NASA and Department of Energy and industry information exchange so aerospace, industry, and researchers share progress, strengths, and needs.

Title 42, §12405

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(a)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 12407 of this title. 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)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.

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1996—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.”

§12405 Technology transfer program

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Title 42, §12405

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