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[CITE: 42USC12405]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
 CHAPTER 128--HYDROGEN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 12405. Technology transfer program


(a) Program

    The Secretary shall conduct a program designed to accelerate wider 
application of hydrogen production, storage, utilization, and other 
technologies available in near term as a result of aerospace experience 
as well as other research progress by transferring critical technologies 
to the private sector. The Secretary shall direct the program with the 
advice and assistance of the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel 
established under section 12407 of this title. The objective in seeking 
this advice is to increase participation of private industry in the 
demonstration of near commercial applications through cooperative 
research and development arrangements, joint ventures or other 
appropriate arrangements involving the private sector.

(b) Information

    The Secretary, in carrying out the program authorized by subsection 
(a) of this section, shall--
        (1) undertake an inventory and assessment of hydrogen 
    technologies and their commercial capability to economically 
    produce, store, or utilize hydrogen in aerospace, transportation, 
    electric utilities, petrochemical, chemical, merchant hydrogen, and 
    other industrial sectors; and
        (2) develop a National Aeronautics Space Administration, 
    Department of Energy, and industry information exchange program to 
    improve technology transfer for--
            (A) application of aerospace experience by industry;
            (B) application of research progress by industry and 
        aerospace;
            (C) application of commercial capability of industry by 
        aerospace; and
            (D) expression of industrial needs to research 
        organizations.

The information exchange program may consist of workshops, publications, 
conferences, and a data base for the use by the public and private 
sectors. The Secretary shall also foster the exchange of generic, 
nonproprietary information and technology, developed pursuant to this 
chapter, among industry, academia, and the Federal Government, to help 
the United States economy attain the economic benefits of this 
information and technology.

(Pub. L. 101-566, Sec. 106, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2799; Pub. L. 104-
271, title I, Sec. 105, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3306.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-271 inserted at end ``The Secretary 
shall also foster the exchange of generic, nonproprietary information 
and technology, developed pursuant to this chapter, among industry, 
academia, and the Federal Government, to help the United States economy 
attain the economic benefits of this information and technology.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 12403 of this title.
