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[CITE: 42USC7139]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT
 
Sec. 7139. Office of Science; establishment; appointment of 
        Director; compensation; duties
        
    (a) There shall be within the Department an Office of Science to be 
headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall be compensated 
at the rate provided for level IV of the Executive Schedule under 
section 5315 of title 5.
    (b) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Director--
        (1) to advise the Secretary with respect to the physical 
    research program transferred to the Department from the Energy 
    Research and Development Administration;
        (2) to monitor the Department's energy research and development 
    programs in order to advise the Secretary with respect to any 
    undesirable duplication or gaps in such programs;
        (3) to advise the Secretary with respect to the well-being and 
    management of the multipurpose laboratories under the jurisdiction 
    of the Department, excluding laboratories that constitute part of 
    the nuclear weapons complex;
        (4) to advise the Secretary with respect to education and 
    training activities required for effective short- and long-term 
    basic and applied research activities of the Department;
        (5) to advise the Secretary with respect to grants and other 
    forms of financial assistance required for effective short- and 
    long-term basic and applied research activities of the Department; 
    and
        (6) to carry out such additional duties assigned to the Office 
    by the Secretary relating to basic and applied research, including 
    but not limited to supervision or support of research activities 
    carried out by any of the Assistant Secretaries designated by 
    section 7133 of this title, as the Secretary considers advantageous.

(Pub. L. 95-91, title II, Sec. 209, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577; Pub. L. 
105-245, title III, Sec. 309(a), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1853.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-245 substituted ``Office of Science'' for ``Office 
of Energy Research'' in section catchline and in subsec. (a).
