§40303 National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program

Summary

The Administrator must set up and run a program called the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program inside the agency. The program will give financial help and run other activities under this chapter. The Administrator must make long-term plans, set priorities, and check how well the program is doing. Inside the agency, the program must follow those plans, offer its expertise to the agency, review grants and contracts to make sure they meet program goals, encourage other federal agencies to use its expertise and work together on space programs, advise on who gets support or stops getting it, and help new space grant and fellowship programs grow. To run the program, the Administrator may accept gifts, donations, and money from other federal agencies, and may make needed rules. Each year the agency must use as much appropriated money as possible for grants and contracts, and keep program administration costs at or below 5% of that year’s program funds. If the agency cannot meet the 5% limit in a year, it must send a report to the proper congressional committees explaining why and what it will do next year to meet the limit without using other federal money.