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 PUBLIC LAW 102-564—OCT. 28, 1992 106 STAT. 4253 of an SBIR program for a period of not less than 2 years, beginning on the initial date of the concern's participation in the third phase of such program; "(C) procedures to ensure, to the extent practicable, that an agency which intends to pursue research, development, or production of a technology developed by a small business concern under an SBIR program enters into follow-on, non-SBIR funding agreements with the small business concern for such research, development, or production; "(D) an increase to $100,000 in the amount of funds which an agency may award in the first phase of an SBIR program, and to $750,000 in the second phase of an SBIR program, and an adjustment of such amounts once every 5 years to reflect economic adjustments and programmatic considerations; "(E) a process for notifying the participating SBIR agencies ana potential SBIR participants of the 1991, 1992, and the current critical technologies, as identified— "(i) by the National Critical Technologies Panel (or its successor), in accordance with section 603 of the National Science and Technology PoUcy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976; or "(ii) by the Secretary of Defense, in accordance with section 2522 of title 10, United States Code; "(F) enhanced outreach efforts to increase the participation of socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns, as defined in section 8(a)(4), and the participation of small businesses that are 51 percent owned and controlled by women in technological innovation and in SBIR programs, including the tlurd phase of such programs, and the collection of data to document such participation; "(G) technical and programmatic guidance to encourage agencies to develop gap-funding programs to address the delay between an award for the first phase of an SBIR program and the application for and extension of an award lor the second phase of such program; "(H) procedures to ensure that a small business concern that submits a proposal for a funding agreement for the first phase of an SBIR program and that has received more than 15 second phase SBIR awards during the preceding 5 fiscal years is able to demonstrate the extent to which it was able to secure third phase funding to develop concepts resulting from previous second phase SBIR awards; and "(I) procedures to ensure that agencies participating in the SBIR program retain the information submitted under subparagraph (H) at least until the General Accounting Office submits the report required under section 105 of the Small Business Research and Development Enhancement Act of 1992.". (g) ELIMINATION OF SURVEYING AND REPORTING REQUIRE- MENT.— Section 9(k) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(k)) is amended to read as follows: "(k) [Reserved].". (h) REPORTING OF AWARDS MADE FROM SINGLE PROPOSAL, TO MULTIPLE AWARD WINNERS, OR TO CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY TOPICS.—

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