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[CITE: 49USC44512]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                     SUBTITLE VII--AVIATION PROGRAMS
 
                     PART A--AIR COMMERCE AND SAFETY
 
                           subpart iii--safety
 
            CHAPTER 445--FACILITIES, PERSONNEL, AND RESEARCH
 
Sec. 44512. Catastrophic failure prevention research grants

    (a) General Authority.--The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration may make grants to institutions of higher education and 
nonprofit research organizations--
        (1) to conduct aviation research related to the development of 
    technologies and methods to assess the risk of, and prevent, 
    defects, failures, and malfunctions of products, parts, processes, 
    and articles manufactured for use in aircraft, aircraft engines, 
    propellers, and appliances that could result in a catastrophic 
    failure of an aircraft; and
        (2) to establish centers of excellence for continuing the 
    research.

    (b) Solicitation, Application, Review, and Evaluation Process.--The 
Administrator shall establish a solicitation, application, review, and 
evaluation process that ensures providing grants under this section for 
proposals having adequate merit and relevancy to the research described 
in subsection (a) of this section.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1182.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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44512.................................  49 App.:1353(h).                 Aug. 2
3, 1958, Pub. L. 85-726, 72 Stat.
                                                                          731, 
Sec.  312(h); added Nov. 5, 1990,
                                                                          Pub. 
L. 101-508, Sec.  9208(b), 104
                                                                          Stat.
 1388-376.
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    In this section, the words ``institutions of higher education'' are 
substituted for ``colleges, universities'' for consistency in the 
revised title.
    In subsection (b), the words ``providing grants'' are substituted 
for ``the funding'' for consistency in the revised title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 106, 40119, 44501, 44508, 
48102, 50103 of this title.
