Sec. 214. Royalties and other payments received for designated activities
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It is the sense of Congress that NASA should determine a threshold for which it may be appropriate for NASA to recuperate the costs of supporting the creation of invention aboard the ISS, through the negotiation of royalties, similar to agreements made by other Federal agencies that support private sector innovation. Subchapter III of chapter 201 of title 51, United States Code, as amended by section 213 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following: If the Administration is required to provide, unreimbursed, the total cost of any contribution by the Government of the use of Government facilities, equipment, materials, information proprietary to the Government, or services of a Government employee during working hours, including the cost for the Administration to carry out its responsibilities under paragraphs
(1)and
(4)of section 504(d) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2010 ( 42 U.S.C. 18354(d) ), under the terms of any written contract for the performance of designated activities, the Administrator, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, shall negotiate and agree upon the terms and rates of royalty payments with respect to any invention or class of inventions made or which may be made by any person or class of persons in the performance of such designated activities. Notwithstanding sections 3710a and 3710c of title 15, or any other provision of law to the contrary, the balance of any royalties or other payments received by the Administrator or ISS management entity from licensing and assignment of inventions under a written contract with the Administration or ISS management entity for the performance of designated activities, after payment in accordance with section 3710c(a)(1)(A)(i) to the inventors who have directly assigned their interests in such inventions to the Government, shall be paid to the Space Exploration Fund by the Administrator or ISS management entity, as applicable. There is established in the Treasury a fund to be known as the Space Exploration Fund, to be administered by the Administrator, to be available without fiscal year limitation and without further appropriation, for carrying out Administration-related space exploration activities under section 20302 of this title. There shall be deposited in the Space Exploration Fund— amounts appropriated to the fund; fees and royalties collected by the Administrator or ISS management entity under subsections
(a)and
(b)of this section; and donations or contributions accepted by the Administrator to support authorized activities. Any amount under this subsection shall be in addition to amounts otherwise made available for the purpose described in paragraph (1). The terms used in this section have the meanings given the terms in section 20150. . The table of contents for chapter 201 of title 51, United States Code, as amended by section 213 of this Act, is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 20151 the following: 20152. Royalties and other payments received for designated activities. .
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