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PUBLIC LAW 93-577-DEC. 31, 1974 ENERGY-RELATED

42 USC 5913.

Reguiations.

[88 STAT.

INVENTIONS

SEC. 14. The National Bureau of Standards shall give particular attention to the evaluation of all promising energy-related inventions, particularly those submitted by individual inventors and small companies for the purpose of obtaining direct grants from the AdministratoT. The National Bureau of Standards is authorized to promulgate regulations in the furtherance of this section. REPORTS TO CONGRESS

42 USC 5914.

Ante,

p. 1251.

SEC. 15. (a) Concurrent with the submission of the President's annual budget to the Congress, the Administrator shall submit to the Congress each year— (1) a report detailing the activities carried out pursuant to this Act during the preceding fiscal year; (2) a detailed description of the comprehensive plan for nuclear and nonnuclear energy research, development, and demonstration then in effect under section 6(a); and (3) a detailed description of the comprehensive nonnuclear research, development, and demonstration program then in effect under section 6(b) including its program elements and activities, setting forth such modifications in the comprehensive plan referred to in clause (2) and the comprehensive program referred to in clause (3) as may be necessary to revise appropriately such plan and program in the light of the activities referred to in clause (1) and any changes in circumstances which may have occurred since the last previous report under this subsection. (b) The description of the comprehensive nonnuclear research, development, and demonstration program submitted under subsection (a)(2) shall include a statement setting forth— (1) the anticipated research, development, and application objectives to be achieved by the proposed program; (2) the economic, environmental, and societal significance which the proposed program may have; (3) the total estimated cost of individual program items; (4) the estimated relative financial contributions of the Federal Government and non-Federal participants in the research and development program; (5) the relationship of the proposed program to any Federal national energy or fuel policies; and (6) the relationship of any short-term undertakings and expenditures to long-range goals. (c) The reports required by subsections (a) and (b) of this section will satisfy the reporting requirements of section 307(a) of the Energy Keorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438) insofar as is concerned activities, goals, priorities, and plans of the Energy Research and Development Administration pertaining to nonnuclear energy. APPROPRIATl ON AUTHORIZATION

42 USC 5915.

SEC. 16. (a) There may be appropriated to the Administrator to carry out the purposes of this Act such sums as may be authorized in annual authorization Acts. (b) Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section—• (1) $500,000 annually shall be made available by fund transfer to the Council on Environmental Quality for the purposes authorized by section 11; and

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