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PUBLIC LAW 90-407-JULY 18, 1968

the Secretary of Defense shall be financed solely from funds transferred to the Foundation by the requesting Secretary as provided in section 15(g), and any such activities shall be unclassified and shall be identified by the Foundation as being undertaken at the request of the appropriate Secretary. "(c) I n addition to the authority contained in subsections (a) and (b), the Foundation is authorized to initiate and support scientific research, including applied research, at academic and other nonprofit institutions. AVhen so directed by the President, the Foundation is further authorized to support, thi-ough other appropriate organizations, applied scientific research relevant to national problems involving the public interest. I n exercising the authority contained in this subsection, the Foundation may employ by grant or contract such consulting services as it deems necessary, and shall coordinate and correhite its activities with respect to any such problem with other agencies of the Federal Government undertaking similar programs in that field. " (d) The Board and the Director shall recommend and encourage the pursuit of national policies for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences. "(e) I n exercising the authority and discharging the functions referred to in the foregoing subsections, it shall be one of the objectives of the Foundation to strengthen research and education in the sciences, including independent reseiirch by individuals, throughout the United States, and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education, " (f) The Foundation shall render an annual report to the President for submission on or before the 15th day of January of each year to the Congress, summarizing the activities of the Foundation and making such recommendations as it may deem appropriate. Such report shall include information as to the acqiiisition and disposition by the Foundation of any patents and patent rights." SEC. 2. Section 4 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 is amended to read as follows:

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Report to President.

National Science Board. 64 Stat. 150. 42 USC 1863.

"NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

"SEC. 4. (a) The Board shall consist of twenty-four meml)ers to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and of the Director ex officio. I n addition to any powers and functions otherwise granted to it by this Act, the Board shall establish the policies of the Foundation. " (b) The Board shall have an Executive Committee as provided in section 7, and may delegate to it or to the Director or both such of the powers and functions granted to the Board by this Act as it deems appropriate. "(c) The persons nominated for appointment as members of the Board (1) shall be eminent in the fields of the basic, medical, or social sciences, engineering, agriculture, education, research management, or public affairs; (2) shall be selected solely on the basis of established records of distinguished service; and (3) shall be so selected as to provide representation of the vaews of scientific leaders in all areas of the Nation. The President is requested, in the making of nominations of persons for appointment as members, to give due consideration to any recommendations for nomination which may be submitted to him by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Association of State laiiversities and Land Grant Colleges, the Association of American Universities, the Association of American Colleges, the Association of State Colleges and Laiiversities, or by other scientific or educational organizations.

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