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 106 STAT. 2640 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 committees a report on the new tritium production capacity of the Department of Energy. (2) The annual report shall include the following: (A) An estimate of the date by which new production reactor capacity will be necessary in order to maintain the active and any reserve stockpile of nuclear weapons of the United States. (B) An estimate of the date on which construction of such capacity should begin in order to maintain the active and any reserve stockpile. (C) An assessment of the technical adequacy of the methods available for the production of tritium, including an assessment of the risk that each method may fail to produce tritium on a reliable basis within the perioa necessary for meeting the requirements of the United States. (D) An assessment of the capability of the potential industrial suppliers of new tritium production capacity, including reactors, to design and construct such capacity by the date estimated pursuant to subparagraph (A). (3) The Secretary shall submit the annual report in 1993 and each year thereafter until the construction of the new tritiimi production capacity is completed. The Secretary shall submit the report not later than 60 days after the date on which the President suomits the bu(^et to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form with a classified appendix if necessary. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS. — It is the sense of Congress that the technology chosen for new tritium production capacity shall be the technology that has the highest probability of successfully sustaining operation, the lowest risk of operational failure, and the lowest cost of construction and operation (including any revenues accruing to the United States from such operation). SEC. 3135. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. (a) EXPEDITED REVIEW OF AGREEMENTS WITH SMALL BUSINESSES. — Section 12(c)(5) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a(c)(5)) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (C)(i), by striking out "Any agency" and inserting in lieu thereof "Except as provided in suBparagraph (D), any agency"; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: "(D)(i) Any non-Federal entity that operates a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency shall submit to the agency any cooperative research and development agreement that the entity proposes to enter into with a small business firm and the joint work statement required with respect to that agreement. "(ii) A Federal agency that receives a proposed agreement and joint work statement under clause (i) shall review and approve, request spedfic modifications to, or disapprove the proposed agreement and joint work statement within 30 days after such submission. No agreement may be entered into by a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory under this section before both approval of the agreement and approval of a joint work statement under this clause. "(iii) In any case in which an agency which has contracted with an entity referred to in clause (i) disapproves or requests the modification of a cooperative research and development agree-

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