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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§6619 National Coordination of Research Infrastructure

Title 42 › CHAPTER 79 — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, ORGANIZATION AND PRIORITIES › SUBCHAPTER II — OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY › § 6619

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each year the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy must use the National Science and Technology Council to find and rank problems in research facilities and major instruments at Federal labs and at widely available academic user facilities, taking agency mission needs into account. The Director must also coordinate agency plans to buy, upgrade, or maintain those facilities to fix the top problems. Each year, with the President’s budget, the Director must send Congress a report that describes the problems, lists agency projects and instrument purchases included in the budget, and explains how those items match the ranked priorities using data current through the end of the prior fiscal year.

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Title 42, §6619

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(a)Identification and prioritization of deficiencies in Federal research facilities
Each year the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall, through the National Science and Technology Council, identify and prioritize the deficiencies in research facilities and major instrumentation located at Federal laboratories and national user facilities at academic institutions that are widely accessible for use by researchers in the United States. In prioritizing such deficiencies, the Director shall consider research needs in areas relevant to the specific mission requirements of Federal agencies.
(b)Planning for acquisition, refurbishment, and maintenance of research facilities and major instrumentation
The Director shall, through the National Science and Technology Council, coordinate the planning by Federal agencies for the acquisition, refurbishment, and maintenance of research facilities and major instrumentation to address the deficiencies identified under subsection (a).
(c)Report
The Director shall submit to Congress each year, together with documents submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the President for the fiscal year beginning in such year (as submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31), a report, current as of the fiscal year ending in the year before such report is submitted, setting forth the following:
(1)A description of the deficiencies in research infrastructure identified in accordance with subsection (a).
(2)A list of projects and budget proposals of Federal research facilities, set forth by agency, for major instrumentation acquisitions that are included in the budget proposal of the President.
(3)An explanation of how the projects and instrumentation acquisitions described in paragraph (2) relate to the deficiencies and priorities identified pursuant to subsection (a).

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Act, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, and not as part of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.

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42 U.S.C. § 6619

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110