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 114 STAT. 1578 PUBLIC LAW 106-391—OCT. 30, 2000 Sec. 310. External tank opportunities study. Sec. 311. Notice. Sec. 312. Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of 1949 amendments. Sec. 313. Innovative technologies for human space flight. Sec. 314. Life in the universe. Sec. 315. Carbon cycle remote sensing applications research. Sec. 316. Remote sensing for agricultural and resource management. Sec. 317. 100th Anniversary of Flight educational initiative. Sec. 318. Internet availability of iniformation. Sec. 319. Sense of the Congress; requirement regarding notice. Sec. 320. Anti-drug message on Internet sites. Sec. 321. Enhancement of science and mathematics programs. Sec. 322. Space advertising. Sec. 323. Aeronautical research. Sec. 324. Insurance, indemnification and cross-waivers. Sec. 325. Use of abandoned, underutilized, and excess buildings, grounds, and facilities. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress makes the following findings: (1) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration should continue to pursue actions and reforms directed at reducing institutional costs, including management restructuring, facility consolidation, procurement reform, and convergence with defense and commercial sector systems, while sustaining safety standards for personnel and hardware. (2) The United States is on the verge of creating and using new technologies in microsatellites, information processing, and space transportation that could radically alter the manner in which the Federal Government approaches its space mission. (3) The overwhelming preponderance of the Federal Government's requirements for routine, unmanned space transportation can be met most effectively, efficiently, and economically by a free and competitive market in privately developed and operated space transportation services. (4) In formulating a nationsJ space transportation service policy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should aggressively promote the pursuit by commercial providers of the development of advanced space transportation technologies including reusable space vehicles and human space systems. (5) The Federal Government should invest in the types of research and innovative technology in which United States commercial providers do not invest, while avoiding competition with the activities in which United States commercial providers do invest. (6) International cooperation in space exploration and science activities most effectively serves the United States national interest— (A) when it— (i) reduces the cost of undertaking missions the United States Government would pursue unilaterally; (ii) enables the United States to pursue missions that it could not otherwise afford to pursue unilaterally; or (iii) enhances United States capabilities to use and develop space for the benefit of United States citizens; and (B) when it—

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