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 102 STAT. 1504

PUBLIC LAW 100-418—AUG. 23, 1988 (3) promote direct contact between prospective users of knowledge and education and training software and personnel of the agency; (4) facilitate the prompt transfer for knowledge and education and training software to public interest users; and (5) refer requests for education and training software from commercial users to the Office of Training Software Transfer for the negotiation of the purchase or lease of such software. (c) COOPERATION OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—

Reports.

20 USC 5097.

(1) IN GENERAL.—All Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Director in the implementation of this chapter. If the head of a Federal agency finds that such agency is unable to cooperate with the Director for reasons of national security, or for any other reason, such agency head shall report such finding to the Secretary. The Secretary shall report to the Congress by July 1 of each year all such findings received by the Secretary during the preceding 12-month period. (2) COOPERATION WITH EXCHANGE CENTER.—The Director shall cooperate with the Federal Software Exchange Center of the National Technical Information Service to facilitate the transfer of education and training software between Federal agencies. (3) AVAILABIUTT OF FEDERAL SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, PERSONNEL, AND FACILITIES.—Upon request of the Director, the head of each Federal agency shall promptly make the services, equipment, personnel, facUities, and information of the agency (including suggestions, estimates, and statistics) available to the Office to the greatest extent practicable. (d) EQUITY RULE.—In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the Director shall consider special equity concerns, including psychological, physiological, sociological, and socioeconomic factors, which could prevent some persons from benefiting from new technological developments, and shall, to the extent possible, ensure that such persons benefit from software transfer activities under this chapter. SEC 6107. DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this chapter— (1) the term "commercial user" means any individual, corporation, partnership, or other l ^ a l entity which operates for profit and which uses or intenc^ to use the education and training software of a Federal agency; (2) the term "community-based organizations" has the same meaning as in section 2704(5) of the Job Training Partnership Ad^ (3) the term "conversion" means the process whereby education and training software is modified and revised to meet the needs of a commercial user or a public interest user; (4) the term "Director" means the Director of the Office of Training Technology Transfer established pursuant to section 6103; (5) the term "Federal agency** has the meaning given to the term "agency" in section 551(1) of title 5, United States Code; (6) the term "National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee" means the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee established under section 422(a) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act;

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