§2205 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Commission must not use the cost-plus-percentage-of-cost way of making contracts (where a contractor is paid a set percentage of its costs). Contracts under this law may not let the Commission directly pay or reimburse a contractor’s Federal income taxes. Contracts under the Atomic Energy Act cannot be changed after August 30, 1954 to allow the Commission to pay those taxes.

Title 42, §2205

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(a)In carrying out the purposes of this chapter the Commission shall not use the cost-plus-percentage-of-cost system of contracting.

(b)No contract entered into under the authority of this chapter shall provide, and no contract entered into under the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, shall be modified or amended after August 30, 1954, to provide, for direct payment or direct reimbursement by the Commission of any Federal income taxes on behalf of any contractor performing such contract for profit.

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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919, known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, referred to in subsec. (b), is act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, 60 Stat. 755, which was classified generally to chapter 14 (§ 1801 et seq.) of this title prior to the general amendment by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919. The act of Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, is now known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and is classified principally to this chapter.

§2205 Contract practices