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[CITE: 36USC150303]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
               CHAPTER 1503--NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
 
Sec. 150303. Services to United States Government

    On request of the United States Government, the corporation shall 
investigate, examine, experiment, and report on any subject of science 
or art. The corporation may not receive compensation for services to the 
Government, but the actual expense of the investigation, examination, 
experimentation, and report shall be paid by the Government from an 
appropriation for that purpose.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1389.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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150303................................  36:253 (words after 1st comma).  Mar. 3
, 1863, ch. 111, Sec.  3 (words
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 1st comma), 12 Stat. 806.
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    The words ``any department of'' are omitted as unnecessary.

  Ex. Ord. No. 2859. National Research Council of National Academy of 
                                Sciences

    Ex. Ord. No. 2859, May 11, 1918, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 10668, 
May 10, 1956, 21 F.R. 3155; Ex. Ord. No. 12832, Jan. 19, 1993, 58 F.R. 
5905, provided:
    National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
    WHEREAS (1) the congressional charter of the National Academy of 
Sciences (``Academy'') charges it, upon call from any U.S. Government 
Department, to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any 
subject of science or art and (2) the actual expenses of the Academy for 
such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports shall be 
paid to the Academy through one or more of the following: private gifts 
and bequests; appropriations for the benefit of the Academy; grants-in-
aid, contracts, and other forms of financial agreement with executive 
departments and agencies, provided that the Academy shall receive no 
compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United 
States; and
    WHEREAS the National Research Council (``Council'') was organized in 
1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of 
Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national 
preparedness; and
    WHEREAS the Council is the principal operating agency of the 
National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, 
the latter having been established in 1964 under the charter of the 
National Academy of Sciences; and
    WHEREAS the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of 
Sciences, established in 1970 under the Academy's charter, conducts its 
programs and activities under the approval, operating, and review 
procedures of the Council; and
    WHEREAS in recognition of the work accomplished through the Council 
in organizing research, in furthering science, and in securing 
cooperation of government and nongovernment agencies in the solution of 
their problems, the Council has been perpetuated by the Academy as 
requested by the President in Executive Order No. 2859 of May 11, 1918; 
and
    WHEREAS the effective prosecution of the Council's work may require 
the close cooperation of the scientific and technical branches of the 
Government, both military and civil, and makes participation by officers 
and employees of the Government in the work of the Council desirable; 
and
    NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is ordered 
as follows:
    1. The functions of the Council shall be as follows:
    (a) To stimulate research in the mathematical, physical, biological, 
environmental, and social sciences, and in the application of these 
sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, 
with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening the national 
security including the contribution of science and engineering to 
economic growth, of ensuring the health of the American people, of 
aiding in the attainment of environmental goals, and of contributing in 
other ways to the public welfare.
    (b) To survey the broad possibilities of science, to formulate 
comprehensive projects of research, and to develop effective means of 
utilizing the scientific and technical resources of the country for 
dealing with such projects.
    (c) To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in order 
to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and stimulate 
progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give encouragement to 
individual initiative, as fundamentally important to the advancement of 
science.
    (d) To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign 
investigators into active cooperation with the scientific and technical 
services of the Federal Government.
    (e) To direct the attention of scientific and technical 
investigators to the importance of military and industrial problems in 
connection with national security, to the importance of environmental 
problems in connection with public health and the economy, and to aid in 
the solution of these problems by organizing specific research.
    (f) To gather and collate scientific and technical information, at 
home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies, 
and to disseminate such information to duly accredited persons and the 
public.
    2. Scientists, engineers, and other technically qualified 
professionals who are officers or employees of departments and agencies 
of the executive branch of the Government are encouraged to participate 
in the work of the Council as requested by the Council to the extent 
authorized by the head of the officer's or employee's agency or 
department and permitted by law.
    3. To the extent permitted by law and regulation, and in accordance 
with the congressional charter of the Academy, the actual expense of 
investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports by the Academy 
for the executive branch of the Government shall be paid to the Academy 
through one or more of the following: private gifts and bequests; 
appropriations for the benefit of the Academy; grants-in-aid, contracts, 
and other forms of financial agreement with executive departments and 
agencies. The Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any 
services to the Government of the United States. Further, the Academy 
shall be subject to all provisions of OMB Circular A-122, ``Cost 
Principles for Non-Profit Organizations,'' and to such other 
requirements regarding or limiting the Academy's recovery of costs as 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may specify from 
time to time in writing to the Academy and to agencies and departments 
of the Government.
    4. When a department or agency of the executive branch of the 
Government determines that the Academy, because of its unique 
qualifications, is the only source that can provide the measure of 
expertise, independence, objectivity, and audience acceptance necessary 
to meet the department's or agency's program requirements, acquisition 
of services by the Academy may be obtained on a noncompetitive basis if 
otherwise in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
