Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73not60
§4627 Cost-sharing Agreements
Title 15 › Chapter 72— SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH › Subchapter II— DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE › § 4627
Summary
National lab directors or their contractors working on the Initiative can include a cost-share clause in R&D deals with U.S. companies so the company pays part of the research costs. A lab may get no more than 1% of its yearly budget from those contract funds in a fiscal year, and no single cooperative agreement may provide more than $10,000,000 of those funds, unless the Secretary of Energy approves more in advance.
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Title 15, §4627
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(a)The director of each national laboratory of the Department of Energy that is participating in the Initiative or the contractor operating any such national laboratory, in carrying out programs under a contract with the Department of Energy, may include in any research and development agreement entered into with a domestic firm in connection with such Initiative a cooperative provision for the domestic firm to pay a portion of the cost of the research and development activities.
(b)(1)Not more than an amount equal to 1 percent of any national laboratory’s annual budget shall be received from nonappropriated funds derived from contracts entered into under the Initiative in any fiscal year, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy.
(2)No Department of Energy national laboratory may receive more than $10,000,000 of nonappropriated funds under any cooperative research and development agreement entered into under this subsection in connection with the Initiative, except to the extent approved in advance by the Secretary of Energy.
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15 U.S.C. § 4627
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60