§40303 National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program

Summary

Create and run a national space grant college and fellowship program inside the Administration. The Administrator must set long-term plans and priorities and check how the program is doing. The program must follow those plans, advise the Administrator about available expertise and make that expertise available, review grants and contracts under sections 40304 and 40305 to make sure the goals in section 40301 are met, encourage other federal agencies and space-related programs to use the program’s skills, advise on who gets support and when to end it, and help new space grant and fellowship programs grow. The Administrator may accept gifts or donations of money, property, or services, take funds from other federal agencies to pay for fellowships, grants, and contracts, and make needed rules. Each year the Administrator must put as much of the appropriated funds as possible into grants and contracts under section 40304 and keep program administration costs at no more than 5 percent of the program’s funds. If the 5 percent limit is missed, the Administrator must report to the appropriate congressional committees explaining why and what will be done next year to meet the limit without using other federal funding.