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[CITE: 42USC5817a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 73--DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES
 
      SUBCHAPTER I--ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 5817a. Employee-suggested research projects; approval; 
        funding; reports
        
    (a) Any Government-owned contractor operated laboratory, energy 
research center, or other laboratory performing functions under contract 
to the Administration may, with the approval of the Administrator, use a 
reasonable amount of its operating budget for the funding of employee-
suggested research projects up to the pilot stage of development. It 
shall be a condition of any such approval that the director of the 
laboratory or center involved form an internal review mechanism for 
determining which employee-suggested projects merit funding in a given 
fiscal year; and any such project may be funded in one or more 
succeeding years if the review process indicates that it merits such 
funding.
    (b) Each director of a laboratory or center specified in subsection 
(a) of this section shall submit an annual report to the Administrator 
on projects being funded under this section; and on completion of each 
such project shall submit a report to the Technical Information Center 
of the Administration for inclusion in its data base.

(Pub. L. 95-39, title III, Sec. 303, June 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 189.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Energy Reorganization Act of 
1974 which comprises this chapter.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Energy Research and Development Administration terminated and 
functions vested by law in Administrator thereof transferred to 
Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by sections 
7151(a) and 7293 of this title.
