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 100 STAT. 3472

PUBLIC LAW 99-607—NOV. 6, 1986

automation plan that was approved by the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and that was submitted, in February 1986, to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks shall report the proposed implementation to those committees. Each key deployment decision shall be approved by the designated Senior Official for Information Resources Management of the Department of Commerce before the report on the decision is made under the preceding sentence. Each such report on a key deployment decision shall include the cost and method of financing the deployment decision, including, where appropriate, a comparison with the cost benefit analysis contained in the revised automation master plan, as well as such other information as the committees consider necessary. Contracts. Reports.

Contracts. International organizations. 35 USC 6 note.

(c) PROHIBITION ON N E W OBLIGATIONS.—The Patent and Trade-

mark Office may not enter into any new contract, or obligate any funds, to implement a key deployment decision described in subsection (b) until the expiration of 90 calendar days after the report with respect to such deployment decision is submitted under such subsection. (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsections (b) and (c) take effect on January 1, 1987. SEC. 6. USE OF EXCHANGE AGREEMENTS RELATING TO AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING RESOURCES PROHIBITED.

The Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks may not enter into new agreements for the exchange of items or services (as authorized under section 6(a) of title 35, United States Code) relating to automatic data processing resources (including hardware, software and related services, and machine readable data) during fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988, nor continue existing agreements for the exchange of such items or services after April 1, 1987. This section shall not apply to any agreement relating to data for automation programs entered into with a foreign government or with an internationed intergovernmental organization. Approved November 6, 1986.

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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2434: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-104 (Comm. on the Judiciary). SENATE REPORTS: No. 99-305 (Comm. on the Judiciary). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 131 (1985): June 24, considered and passed House. Vol. 132 (1986): June 6, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 2, House concurred in certain Senate amendments, in others with amendments. Oct. 18, Senate concurred in House amendments. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 22 (1986): Nov. 6, Presidential statement.

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