42 U.S.C. § 18612

Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)

Section 18612 - Restoration of laboratory directed research and development program

(a) In general

Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary shall ensure that laboratory operating contractors do not allocate costs of general and administrative overhead to laboratory directed research and development.

(b) Exception for national security laboratories

This section shall not apply to the national security laboratories with respect to which section 3119¹ of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) applies.

¹See References in Text note below.

42 U.S.C. § 18612

Pub. L. 115-246, title I, §104, Sept. 28, 2018, 132 Stat. 3132.

EDITORIAL NOTES

REFERENCES IN TEXTSection 3119 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, referred to in subsec. (b), is section 3119 of Pub. L. 114-328 which was set out as a note under section 2791 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 117-263, div. C, title XXXI, §3116(b), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 3054.

Secretary

The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy.