§1862l — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Director must include with the Foundation’s annual budget request a plan for building, repairing, and upgrading national research facilities. The plan must give cost estimates for construction, repairs, upgrades (including instrument development), and for operating and maintaining existing and proposed facilities. For new builds and major upgrades it must show year-by-year funding plans and major milestones. For projects funded under the major research equipment and facilities construction account and for major upgrades that support Antarctic research, it must list the total project cost from planning to commissioning and identify all funding sources (Federal by appropriations category and non‑Federal). The plan must also show the full life‑cycle cost of each facility, any plans to retire facilities, and estimated grant funding levels for research at each facility. Cost estimates must cover the year the plan is submitted and at least the next 4 years. The plan must also include a status report for every unfinished construction project in current or past plans. Each status report must show cumulative costs so far compared with estimated costs and must compare current and original schedules for the main construction milestones.

Title 42, §1862l

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(a)(1)The Director shall prepare, and include as part of the Foundation’s annual budget request to Congress, a plan for the proposed construction of, and repair and upgrades to, national research facilities, including full life-cycle cost information.

(2)The plan shall include—

(A)estimates of the costs for the construction, repairs, and upgrades described in paragraph (1), including costs for instrumentation development;

(B)estimates of the costs for the operation and maintenance of existing and proposed new facilities;

(C)in the case of proposed new construction and for major upgrades to existing facilities, funding profiles, by fiscal year, and milestones for major phases of the construction;

(D)for each project funded under the major research equipment and facilities construction account and for major upgrades of facilities in support of Antarctic research programs—

(i)estimates of the total project cost (from planning to commissioning); and

(ii)the source of funds, including Federal funding identified by appropriations category and non-Federal funding;

(E)estimates of the full life-cycle cost of each national research facility;

(F)information on any plans to retire national research facilities; and

(G)estimates of funding levels for grants supporting research that will be conducted using each national research facility.

(3)The plan shall include cost estimates in the categories of construction, repair, and upgrades—

(A)for the year in which the plan is submitted to Congress; and

(B)for not fewer than the succeeding 4 years.

(b)The plan required under subsection (a) shall include a status report for each uncompleted construction project included in current and previous plans. The status report shall include data on cumulative construction costs by project compared with estimated costs, and shall compare the current and original schedules for achievement of milestones for the major phases of the construction.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1998, and not as part of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a)(2)(D). Pub. L. 110–69 inserted “and for major upgrades of facilities in support of Antarctic research programs” after “facilities

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account” in introductory provisions. 2002—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 107–368, § 14(b)(1), reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Not later than December 1, of each year, the Director shall, as part of the annual budget request, prepare and submit to Congress a plan for the proposed

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of, and repair and upgrades to, national research facilities.” Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 107–368, § 14(b)(2)(A), substituted “(1), including costs for instrumentation development;” for “(1);”. Subsec. (a)(2)(D) to (G). Pub. L. 107–368, § 14(b)(2)(B)–(D), added subpars. (D) to (G).

§1862l National research facilities

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