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 99 STAT. 692

PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985 "(3) 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Defense acting through the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency.

10 USC 2412.

"§ 2412. Purposes "The purposes of the program authorized by this chapter are— "(1) to increase assistance by the Department of Defense to eligible entities furnishing procurement technical assistance to business entities; and "(2) to assist eligible entities in the payment of the costs of establishing and carrying out new procurement technical assistance programs and maintaining existing procurement technical assistance programs.

10 USC 2413.

"§ 2413. Cooperative agreements "(a) The Secretary, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, may enter into cooperative agreements with eligible entities to carry out the purposes of this chapter. "(b) Under any such cooperative agreement, the eligible entity shall agree to furnish procurement technical assistance to business entities and the Secretary shall agree to defray not more than onehalf of the eligible entity s cost of furnishing such assistance, except that in the case of an eligible entity that is a distressed entity, the Secretary may agree to ftirnish more than one-half, but not more than three-fourths, of such cost. "(c) In entering into cooperative agreements under subsection (a), the Secretary shall assure that at least one procurement technical assistance program is carried out in each Department of Defense contract administration services region during each fiscal year.

10 USC 2414.

"§ 2414. Limitation "The value of the assistance furnished by the Secretary to any eligible entity to carry out a procurement technical assistance program under a cooperative agreement under this chapter during any fiscal year may not exceed $150,000.". (b) FUNDING.—Section 2415 of such title is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking out "fiscal year 1985 is 50 percent and during fiscal year 1986" in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof "fiscal years 1986 and 1987"; and (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(3) This subsection shall apply only to the first $3,000,000 appropriated to carry out this chapter in each of fiscal years 1986 and 1987."; (2) by striking out "fiscal year 1986" in subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof "fiscal year 1987"; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) For any amount appropriated to carry out this chapter for fiscal year 1986 or 1987 in excess of $3,000,000, the Secretary shall allocate funds available for assistance under this chapter equally to each Defense Contract Administration Services region. If in any such fiscal year there is an insufficient number of satisfactory proposals in a region for cooperative agreements to allow effective use of the funds allocated to that region, the funds remaining with respect to that region shall be reallocated among the remaining regions.". (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—(1) There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $6,000,000 for

98 Stat. 2606.

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