§6619 National coordination of research infrastructure

Summary

Every year the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy must, through the National Science and Technology Council, find and rank problems with research facilities and major instruments at Federal labs and at national user facilities at colleges and universities that are widely open to U.S. researchers. The Director must consider the research needs tied to each Federal agency’s mission when setting priorities. The Director must also coordinate agency plans to buy, refurbish, and maintain those facilities and instruments to address the problems. Each year the Director must send Congress a report at the same time as the President’s budget documents filed under section 1105 of title 31. The report must be current through the fiscal year that ended the year before the report. It must describe the problems found, give a list by agency of projects and budget proposals for major instrument purchases included in the President’s budget, and explain how those projects address the ranked problems.