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[CITE: 42USC2459d]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 26--NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2459d. Prohibition of grant or contract providing 
        guaranteed customer base for new commercial space hardware or 
        services
        
    No amount appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration in this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year 
may be used to fund grants, contracts or other agreements with an 
expected duration of more than one year, when a primary effect of the 
grant, contract, or agreement is to provide a guaranteed customer base 
for or establish an anchor tenancy in new commercial space hardware or 
services unless an appropriations Act specifies the new commercial space 
hardware or services to be developed or used, or the grant, contract, or 
agreement is otherwise identified in such Act.

(Pub. L. 102-139, title III, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 771.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Departments of Veterans Affairs 
and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1992, and not as part of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Act of 1958 which is classified principally to this chapter.
