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[CITE: 15USC1156]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
   CHAPTER 23--DISSEMINATION OF TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING 
                               INFORMATION
 
Sec. 1156. Use of existing facilities


(a) Available assistance

    The Secretary may utilize any personnel, facilities, bureaus, 
agencies, boards, administrations, offices, or other instrumentalities 
of the Department of Commerce which he may require to carry out the 
purposes of this chapter.

(b) Cooperation of other agencies

    The Secretary is authorized to call upon other departments and 
independent establishments and agencies of the Government to provide, 
with their consent, such available services, facilities, or other 
cooperation as he shall deem necessary or helpful in carrying out the 
provisions of this chapter, and he is directed to utilize existing 
facilities to the full extent deemed feasible.

(Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 936, Sec. 6, 64 Stat. 824.)
