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[CITE: 42USC7257b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7257b. Annual report on expenditures of Department of 
        Energy Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program
        
    (1) Not later than February 1 each year, the Secretary of Energy 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the 
funds expended during the preceding fiscal year on activities under the 
Department of Energy Laboratory Directed Research and Development 
Program. The purpose of the report is to permit an assessment of the 
extent to which such activities support the national security mission of 
the Department of Energy.
    (2) Each report shall be prepared by the officials responsible for 
Federal oversight of the funds expended on activities under the program.
    (3) Each report shall set forth the criteria utilized by the 
officials preparing the report in determining whether or not the 
activities reviewed by such officials support the national security 
mission of the Department.

(Pub. L. 104-201, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3136(b), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2831; Pub. L. 105-85, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3137(c), Nov. 18, 
1997, 111 Stat. 2039.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1997, and not as part of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1997--Par. (1). Pub. L. 105-85 substituted ``Not later than February 
1 each year, the Secretary of Energy shall submit'' for ``The Secretary 
of Energy shall annually submit''.


              ``Congressional Defense Committees'' defined

    Congressional defense committees means the Committees on Armed 
Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives, see section 3 of Pub. L. 104-201, 110 Stat. 2439, as 
amended by Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1067(5), Oct. 5, 1999, 
113 Stat. 774.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7257c of this title.
