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[CITE: 42USC1870a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 16--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
 
Sec. 1870a. Buy-American requirements


(a) Award of contracts

    The Director shall, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent 
with current law, award to domestic firms any contracts for the purchase 
of goods and services intended for direct use by the Foundation.

(b) Report

    The Director shall, as soon as possible after October 31, 1988, 
prepare a report on--
        (1) the number of Foundation contracts entered into with foreign 
    firms in fiscal year 1988;
        (2) the number of such contracts entered into with domestic 
    firms in that fiscal year;
        (3) the number of contracts entered into with foreign firms 
    where the Foundation also received a technically acceptable bid from 
    a domestic firm; and
        (4) any steps the Foundation will take to increase the number of 
    contracts awarded to domestic firms.

Such report shall be submitted to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Labor 
and Human Resources and Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate.

(c) Definitions

    For the purposes of this section--
        (1) the term ``domestic firm'' means a business entity which is 
    organized under the laws of the United States or the laws of a 
    State, district, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the 
    United States, and which conducts business operations in the United 
    States; and
        (2) the term ``foreign firm'' means a business entity not 
    described in paragraph (1).

(Pub. L. 100-570, title I, Sec. 111, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2869.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Science Foundation 
Authorization Act of 1988, and not as part of the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Science of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
