Sec. 202. Scientific and technical collaboration
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In this section, the term scientific and technical workshop means a symposium, seminar, or any other organized, formal gathering where scientists or engineers working in STEM research and development fields assemble to coordinate, exchange and disseminate information or to explore or clarify a defined subject, problem or area of knowledge in the STEM fields. It is the policy of the United States to encourage broad dissemination Federal research findings and engagement of Federal researchers with the scientific and technical community.
Laboratory, test center, and field center directors and other similar heads of offices may approve scientific and technical workshop attendance if— that attendance would meet the mission of the laboratory or test center; and sufficient laboratory or test center funds are available for that purpose. Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the heads of other relevant Federal science agencies, shall revise current policies and streamline processes, in accordance with the policy under subsection (b), for attendance at scientific and technical workshops while ensuring appropriate oversight, accountability, and transparency.
In revising the policy under paragraph (1), the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall consider the goal of adjudicating a request to attend a scientific and technical workshop not later than 30 days after the date of the request. Not later than 90 days after the date the Director of the Office of Management and Budget revises the policies under paragraph (1), the head of each Federal science agency shall update that agency's policies for attendance at scientific and technical workshops.
Section 2(c) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 272(c) ), as amended by section 104 of this Act, is further amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(19)through
(24)as paragraphs
(22)through (27), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(18)the following: host, participate in, and support scientific and technical workshops (as defined in section 202 of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act ); collect and retain any fees charged by the Secretary for hosting a scientific and technical workshop described in paragraph (19); notwithstanding title 31 of the United States Code, use the fees described in paragraph
(20)to pay for any related expenses, including subsistence expenses for participants; .
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