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 PUBLIC LAW 106-404—NOV. 1, 2000 114 STAT. 1747 to cooperative research and development agreements described in subsection (a). Procedures established under this subsection shall be designed to the extent possible to use or modify existing procedures, to minimize burdens on Federal agencies, to encourage industrial partnerships with national laboratories, and to minimize delay in the approval or disapproval of joint work statements and cooperative research and development agreements. (c) LIMITATION.— Nothing in this Act, nor any procedures established under this section shall provide to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Science and Technology Council, or any Federal agency the authority to disapprove a cooperative research and development agreement or joint work statement, under section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a), of another Federal agency. SEC. 9. INCREASED FLEXIBILITY FOR FEDERAL LABORATORY PART- NERSHIP INTERMEDIARIES. Section 23 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3715) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1) by inserting ", institutions of higher education as defined in section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a)), or educational institutions within the meaning of section 2194 of title 10, United States Code" after "small business firms"; and (2) in subsection (c) by inserting ", institutions of higher education as defined in section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a)), or educational institutions within the meaning of section 2194 of title 10, United States Code," after "small business firms". SEC. 10. REPORTS ON UTILIZATION OF FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY. (a) AGENCY ACTIVITIES. —Section 11 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710) is amended— (1) by striking the last sentence of subsection (b); (2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following: "(f) AGENCY REPORTS ON UTILIZATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— Each Federal agency which operates or directs one or more Federal laboratories or which conducts activities under sections 207 and 209 of title 35, United States Code, shall report annually to the Office of Management and Budget, as part of the agency's annual budget submission, on the activities performed by that agency and its Federal laboratories under the provisions of this section and of sections 207 and 209 of title 35, United States Code. "(2) CONTENTS.— ^The report shall include— "(A) an explanation of the agency's technology transfer ' program for the preceding fiscal year and the agency's plans for conducting its technology transfer function, including its plans for securing intellectual property rights in laboratory innovations with commercial promise and plans for managing its intellectual property so as to advance the agency's mission and benefit the competitiveness of United States industry; and "(B) information on technology transfer activities for the preceding fiscal year, including— "(i) the number of patent applications filed; "(ii) the number of patents received;

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