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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 2 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. · Sec. 33142

Sec. 33142. Federal technology assistance

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The Secretary of Energy shall develop and implement a pilot program under which the Secretary shall contract with the national laboratories to provide technical assistance to cities and communities, to improve the access of such cities and communities to expertise, competencies, and infrastructure of the national laboratories for the purpose of promoting smart city or community technologies. In carrying out the program under this subsection, the Secretary of Energy shall prioritize assistance for cities and communities that have partnered with small business concerns.
The Secretary of Energy shall expand the Technologist in Residence pilot program of the Department of Energy to include partnerships between national laboratories and local governments with respect to research and development relating to smart cities and communities. For purposes of the partnerships entered into under paragraph (1), technologists in residence shall work with an assigned unit of local government to develop an assessment of smart city or community technologies available and appropriate to meet the objectives of the city or community, in consultation with private sector entities implementing smart city or community technologies.
The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall issue guidance with respect to— the scope of the programs established and implemented under subsections
(a)and (b); and requests for proposals from local governments interested in participating in such programs. In establishing and implementing the programs under subsections
(a)and (b), the Secretary of Energy shall seek to address the needs of small- and medium-sized cities. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
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