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[CITE: 15USC281a]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
        CHAPTER 7--NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
 
Sec. 281a. Structural failures

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology, on its own 
initiative but only after consultation with local authorities, may 
initiate and conduct investigations to determine the causes of 
structural failures in structures which are used or occupied by the 
general public. No part of any report resulting from such investigation 
shall be admitted as evidence or used in any suit or action for damages 
arising out of any matter mentioned in such report.

(Pub. L. 99-73, Sec. 7, July 29, 1985, 99 Stat. 173; Pub. L. 100-418, 
title V, Sec. 5115(c), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1433.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology Act which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-418 substituted ``National Institute of Standards 
and Technology'' for ``National Bureau of Standards''.
