§5817a — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

Government-owned, contractor-run labs, energy research centers, and other labs working under contract with the Administration may, if the Administrator agrees, use a reasonable part of their operating budget to pay for research ideas suggested by employees up to the pilot stage. The lab director must set up an internal review process to decide which employee ideas get funded each year, and a project can get funding in later years if the review supports it. Each lab director must send an annual report to the Administrator about the projects funded this way. When a project finishes, the director must send a report to the Administration’s Technical Information Center so it can be added to the database.

Title 42, §5817a

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Any Government-owned contractor operated laboratory, energy research center, or other laboratory performing functions under contract to the Administration may, with the approval of the Administrator, use a reasonable amount of its operating budget for the funding of employee-suggested research projects up to the pilot stage of development. It shall be a condition of any such approval that the director of the laboratory or center involved form an internal review mechanism for determining which employee-suggested projects merit funding in a given fiscal year; and any such project may be funded in one or more succeeding years if the review process indicates that it merits such funding.

(b)Each director of a laboratory or center specified in subsection (a) of this section shall submit an annual report to the Administrator on projects being funded under this section; and on completion of each such project shall submit a report to the Technical Information Center of the Administration for inclusion in its data base.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Energy Research and Development Administration terminated and functions vested by law in Administrator thereof transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by section 7151(a) and 7293 of this title.

§5817a Employee-suggested research projects; approval; funding; reports