{"data":{"id":"us/42-u.s.c.-5817a","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"42 U.S.C. § 5817a","heading":"Employee-suggested research projects; approval; funding; reports","body":"(a) Any Government-owned contractor operated laboratory, energy research center, or other laboratory performing functions under contract to the Administration may, with the approval of the Administrator, use a reasonable amount of its operating budget for the funding of employee-suggested research projects up to the pilot stage of development. It shall be a condition of any such approval that the director of the laboratory or center involved form an internal review mechanism for determining which employee-suggested projects merit funding in a given fiscal year; and any such project may be funded in one or more succeeding years if the review process indicates that it merits such funding. (b) Each director of a laboratory or center specified in subsection (a) of this section shall submit an annual report to the Administrator on projects being funded under this section; and on completion of each such project shall submit a report to the Technical Information Center of the Administration for inclusion in its data base.","path":["Title 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","CHAPTER 73—DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SOURCES"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc42@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T06:00:34Z","sha256":"aa15af9caacacd149e2a56650ffeb11f2ee23b72b84addcb8da03ce4780b7a95","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/42-u.s.c.-5817","next":"us/42-u.s.c.-5818"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}