Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 3.djvu/704

 98 STAT. 3076

Effective date. 41 USC 418a note. Report.

PUBLIC LAW 98-577—OCT. 30, 1984

"(7) requiring the contractor to furnish written assurance at the time the technical data is delivered or is made available that the technical data is complete and accurate and satisfies the requirements of the contract concerning technical data; "(8) establishing remedies to be available to the United States when technical data required to be delivered or made available under the contract is found to be incomplete or inadequate or to not satisfy the requirements of the contract concerning technical data; and "(9) authorizing the head of the agency to withhold payments under the contract (or exercise such other remedies as the head of the agency considers appropriate) during any period if the contractor does not meet the requirements of the contract pertaining to the delivery of technical data.". (b) Section 2320(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out "in regulations prescribed as part" and inserting in lieu thereof "in regulations of the Department of Defense prescribed as part". (c) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act. The regulations required by such amendment shall be issued not later than July 1, 1985. (d) Within 60 days after the date the regulations required by the amendment made by subsection (a) are prescribed, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General Services, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall submit to Congress a joint report describing in detail how those regulations give consideration to the factors specified for consideration in that section. PUBLICATION OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS

SEC. 302. (a) The Act is further amended by inserting after section 21 (as added by section 301 of this Act) the following new section: "PUBLICATION OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS Federal Register, publication. 41 USC 418b.

"SEC. 22. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d), no procurement policy, regulation, procedure, or form (including amendments or modifications thereto) relating to the expenditure of appropriated funds that has (1) a significant effect beyond the internal operating procedures of the agency issuing the procurement policy, regulation, procedure or form, or (2) a significant cost or administrative impact on contractors or offerors, may take effect until 30 days after the procurement policy, regulation, procedure, or form is published for public comment in the Federal Register pursuant to subsection (b). "(b) Subject to subsection (c), the head of the agency shall cause to be published in the Federal Register a notice of the proposed procurement policy, regulation, procedure, or form and provide for a public comment period for receiving and considering the views of all interested parties on such proposal. The length of such comment period may not be less than 30 days. "(c) Any notice of a proposed procurement policy, regulation, procedure, or form prepared for publication in the Federal Register shall include— "(1) the text of the proposal or, if it is impracticable to publish the full text of the proposal, a summary of the proposal and a statement specifying the name, address, and telephone number

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