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§3712 Personnel Exchanges

Title 15 › Chapter 63— TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION › § 3712

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Secretary, Energy Secretary, and the NSF Director must start a program to exchange science and technical staff among universities, industry, and federal labs with (1) federal funding and (2) nonfederal support.

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Title 15, §3712

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The Secretary, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of the National Science Foundation, jointly, shall establish a program to foster the exchange of scientific and technical personnel among academia, industry, and Federal laboratories. Such program shall include both (1) federally supported exchanges and (2) efforts to stimulate exchanges without Federal funding.

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2005—Pub. L. 109–58 substituted “, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of the National Science Foundation” for “and the National Science Foundation”.

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15 U.S.C. § 3712

Title 15Commerce and Trade

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Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60