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 94 STAT. 2318

PUBLIC LAW 96-480—OCT. 21, 1980 (4) The Board shall select a voting member to serve as the Chairperson and another voting member to serve as the Vice Chairperson. The Vice Chairperson shall perform the functions of the Chairperson in the absence or incapacity of the Chairperson. (5) Voting members of the Board may receive compensation at a daily rate for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, when actually engaged in the performance of duties for such Board, and may be reimbursed for actual and reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of such duties.

15 USC 3710.

SEC. 11. UTILIZATION OF FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY.

Technology transfer.

(a) POLICY.—It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to ensure the full use of the results of the Nation's Federal investment in research and development. To this end the Federal Government shall strive where appropriate to transfer federally owned or originated technology to State and local governments and to the private sector. (b) ESTABLISHMENT OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

Waiver. Submittal to Congress.

OFFICES.—Each Federal laboratory shall establish an Office of Research and Technology Applications. Laboratories having existing organizational structures which perform the functions of this section may elect to combine the Office of Research and Technology Applications within the existing organization. The staffing and funding levels for these offices shall be determined between each Federal laboratory and the Federal agency operating or directing the laboratory, except that (1) each laboratory having a total annual budget exceeding $20,000,000 shall provide at least one professional individual full-time as staff for its Office of Research and Technology Applications, and (2) after September 30, 1981, each Federal agency which operates or directs one or more Federal laboratories shall make available not less than 0.5 percent of the agency's research and development budget to support the technology transfer function at the agency and at its laboratories, including support of the Offices of Research and Technology Applications. The agency head may waive the requirements set forth in (1) and/or (2) of this subsection. If the agency head waives either requirement (1) or (2), the agency head shall submit to Congress at the time the President submits the budget to Congress an explanation of the reasons for the waiver and alternate plans for conducting the technology transfer function at the agency. (c)

FUNCTIONS OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

OFFICES.—It shall be the function of each Office of Research and Technology Applications— (1) to prepare an application Eissessment of each research and development project in which that laboratory is engaged which has potential for successful application in State or local government or in private industry; (2) to provide and disseminate information on federally owned or originated products, processes, and services having potential application to State and local governments and to private industry; (3) to cooperate with and assist the Center for the Utilization of Federal Technology and other organizations which link the research and development resources of that laboratory and the Federal Government as a whole to potential users in State and local government and private industry; and

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