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 PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988

102 STAT. 1429

engmeering, manufacturing, education, commerce, and industry and are not available with sufficient accuracy elsewhere; "(7) to develop a fundeunental basis and methods for testing materials, mechanisms, structures, equipment, and systems, including those used by the Federal Government; "(8) to assure the compatibility of United States national measurement standards with those of other nations; "(9) to cooperate with other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with industry, with State and local governments, with the governments of other nations and international organizations, and with private organizations in establishing standard practices, codes, specifications, and voluntary consensus standards; "(10) to advise government and industry on scientific and technical problems; and "(11) to invent, develop, and (when appropriate) promote transfer to the private sector of measurement devices to serve special national needs. "(c) In carrying out the functions specified in subsection (b), the Secretary, acting through the Director and, if appropriate, through other appropriate officials, may, among other thic^— "(1) construct physical standards; "(2) test, calibrate, and certify standards and standard measuring apparatus; "(3) study and improve instruments, measurement methods, and industrial process control and quality assurance techniques; "(4) cooperate with the States in securing imiformity in weights and measures laws and methods of inspection; "(5) cooperate with foreign scientific and technical institutions to understand technological developments in other countries better; "(6) prepare, certify, and sell standard representatives for use in ensuring the accuracy of chemical analyses and measurements of physical and other properties of materials; "(7) in furtherance of the purposes of this Act, accept resesurch associates, cash donations, and donated equipment from industry, and also engage with industry in research to develop new basic and generic technologies for traditional and new products and for improved production and manufacturing; "(8) study and develop fundamental scientific understanding and improved measurement, analysis, synthesis, processing, and fabrication methods for chemical substances and compounds, ferrous and nonferrous metals, and all traditional and advanced materials, including processes of degradation; "(9) investigate ionizing and nonionizing radiation and radioactive substances, their uses, and ways to protect people, structures, and equipment from their harmful effects; "(10) determine the atomic and molecular structure of matter, t h r o u ^ analysis of spectra and other methods, to provide a basis for predicting chemical and physical structures and reactions and for designing new materials and chemical substances, including biologically active macromolecules; "(11) perform research on electromagnetic waves, including optical waves, and on properties and performance of electrical, electronic, and electromagnetic devices and systems and their essential materials, develop and maintain related standards.

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