Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 163— - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - MISCELLANEOUS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROVISIONS › Part Part G— - Partnerships for Energy Security and Innovation › § 19281
The Secretary of Energy must create a nonprofit called the Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation within 180 days after August 9, 2022. The Foundation must help the Department of Energy and speed up turning energy research into real products by working with researchers, colleges, industry, nonprofits, and funders. It will not be a federal agency and must be set up as a tax-exempt 501(c) nonprofit. A Board of Directors will run the Foundation. Some DOE officials will be nonvoting members and other members will be appointed from academia, National Laboratories, industry, nonprofits, government, investors, and philanthropies. The Board will write bylaws, hire an Executive Director to run day-to-day work, enforce ethics and conflict-of-interest rules, get annual audits, keep certain funds in a separate account, and make a strategic plan within one year after August 9, 2022. The Foundation can give grants and fellowships, run prize competitions and training, help labs commercialize technology, accept donations, and must report to Congress each year starting within one year of being set up. The Comptroller General must evaluate the Foundation within 5 years. Congress authorized at least $1,500,000 for FY2023 to start the Foundation, $30,000,000 for FY2024 for activities (which must be cost-shared by a partner other than the Department or a National Laboratory), and $3,000,000 each year for FY2025–2027 for operations. Board — the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Department — the Department of Energy. Executive Director — the person the Board hires to run the Foundation. Foundation — the nonprofit being created. Historically Black college or university — HBCU as defined in law. Individual Laboratory-Associated Foundation — a lab-related nonprofit set up by a lab contractor. Minority serving institution — includes Hispanic-serving, Alaska Native-, Native Hawaiian-, Predominantly Black, AANAPISI, and Native American-serving nontribal institutions as defined in law. National Laboratory — the labs defined in law. Secretary — the Secretary of Energy. Tribal College or University — as defined in law.
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42 U.S.C. § 19281
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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