Sec. 722. Public-private partnerships for commercialization
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Subject to subsections
(b)and (c), the Secretary shall delegate to directors of the National Laboratories signature authority with respect to any agreement described in subsection
(b)the total cost of which (including the National Laboratory contributions and project recipient cost share) is less than $1 million. Subsection
(a)applies to— a cooperative research and development agreement; a non-Federal work-for-others agreement; and any other agreement determined to be appropriate by the Secretary, in collaboration with the directors of the National Laboratories. The director of the affected National Laboratory and the affected contractor shall carry out an agreement under this section in accordance with applicable policies of the Department, including by ensuring that the agreement does not compromise any national security, economic, or environmental interest of the United States. The director of the affected National Laboratory and the affected contractor shall certify that each activity carried out under a project for which an agreement is entered into under this section does not present, or minimizes, any apparent conflict of interest, and avoids or neutralizes any actual conflict of interest, as a result of the agreement under this section. On entering an agreement under this section, the director of a National Laboratory shall submit to the Secretary for monitoring and review all records of the National Laboratory relating to the agreement. The director of a National Laboratory may charge higher rates for services performed under a partnership agreement entered into pursuant to this section, regardless of the full cost of recovery, if such funds are used exclusively to support further research and development activities at the respective National Laboratory. This section does not apply to any agreement with a majority foreign-owned company. Section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3710a ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)and
(2)as subparagraphs
(A)and (B), respectively, and indenting the subparagraphs appropriately; by striking Each Federal agency and inserting the following: Except as provided in paragraph (2), each Federal agency ; and by adding at the end the following: Notwithstanding paragraph (1), in accordance with section 722(a) of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 , approval by the Secretary of Energy shall not be required for any technology transfer agreement proposed to be entered into by a National Laboratory of the Department of Energy, the total cost of which (including the National Laboratory contributions and project recipient cost share) is less than $1 million. ; and in subsection (b), by striking subsection (a)(1) each place it appears and inserting subsection (a)(1)(A) .
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