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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 5817a. Employee-suggested research projects; approval; funding; reports
(a) Any Government-owned contractor operated laboratory, energy
research center, or other laboratory performing functions under
contract to the Administration may, with the approval of the
Administrator, use a reasonable amount of its operating budget for
the funding of employee-suggested research projects up to the pilot
stage of development. It shall be a condition of any such approval
that the director of the laboratory or center involved form an
internal review mechanism for determining which employee-suggested
projects merit funding in a given fiscal year; and any such project
may be funded in one or more succeeding years if the review process
indicates that it merits such funding.
(b) Each director of a laboratory or center specified in
subsection (a) of this section shall submit an annual report to the
Administrator on projects being funded under this section; and on
completion of each such project shall submit a report to the
Technical Information Center of the Administration for inclusion in
its data base.
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