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[CITE: 15USC3704b-2]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                    CHAPTER 63--TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
 
Sec. 3704b-2. Transfer of Federal scientific and technical 
        information
        

(a) Transfer

    The head of each Federal executive department or agency shall 
transfer in a timely manner to the National Technical Information 
Service unclassified scientific, technical, and engineering information 
which results from federally funded research and development activities 
for dissemination to the private sector, academia, State and local 
governments, and Federal agencies. Only information which would 
otherwise be available for public dissemination shall be transferred 
under this subsection. Such information shall include technical reports 
and information, computer software, application assessments generated 
pursuant to section 3710(c) of this title, and information regarding 
training technology and other federally owned or originated 
technologies. The Secretary shall issue regulations within one year 
after February 14, 1992, outlining procedures for the ongoing transfer 
of such information to the National Technical Information Service.

(b) Omitted

(Pub. L. 102-245, title I, Sec. 108, Feb. 14, 1992, 106 Stat. 13.)

                          Codification

    Subsec. (b) of this section, which required the Secretary, as part 
of the annual report required under section 3704b(f)(3) of this title, 
to report to Congress on the status of efforts under this section to 
ensure access to Federal scientific and technical information by the 
public, was omitted because of termination of the annual report. See 
Codification note set out after section 3704b of this title.
    Section was enacted as part of the American Technology Preeminence 
Act of 1991, and not as part of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 
Innovation Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.
