Sec. 203. Small business voucher program
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Section 1003 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16393 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)through
(5)as subparagraphs
(A)through (E), respectively, and indenting appropriately; in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A)(as so redesignated)— by striking and may require the Director of a single-purpose research facility and inserting the Director of each single-purpose research facility, and the Director of each covered facility ; and by striking The Secretary and inserting the following: In this subsection, the term covered facility means a national security laboratory or nuclear weapons production facility (as those terms are defined in section 4002 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2501 )) that the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration determines is within the mission of a program established under subsection
(b)or (c). The Secretary ; and in paragraph
(2)(as so designated)— in subparagraph
(A)(as so redesignated)— by striking increase and inserting encourage ; by striking collaborative research, and inserting research, development, demonstration, commercial application activities, including product development, ; and by striking Laboratory or single-purpose research facility and inserting Laboratory, single-purpose research facility, or covered facility, as applicable ; in subparagraph
(B)(as so redesignated)— by striking Laboratory or single-purpose research facility and inserting Laboratory, single-purpose research facility, or covered facility, as applicable, ; and by striking procurement and collaborative research along with and inserting the activities described in subparagraph
(A)and ; in subparagraph
(C)(as so redesignated)— by inserting facilities, before training ; and by striking procurement and collaborative research activities and inserting the activities described in subparagraph
(A); in subparagraph
(D)(as so redesignated), by striking Laboratory or single-purpose research facility and inserting Laboratory, single-purpose research facility, or covered facility, as applicable, ; and in subparagraph
(E)(as so redesignated)— by striking for the program under subsection
(b)and inserting and metrics for the programs under subsections
(b)and
(c); and by striking Laboratory or single-purpose research facility and inserting Laboratory, single-purpose research facility, or covered facility, as applicable ; by redesignating subsections
(c)and
(d)as subsections
(d)and (e), respectively; by inserting after subsection
(b)the following: In this subsection: The term covered facility means a national security laboratory or nuclear weapons production facility (as those terms are defined in section 4002 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2501 )) that the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration determines is within the mission of the program. The term Director means— the Director of a National Laboratory; the Director of a single-purpose research facility; and the Director of a covered facility. The term program means the program established under paragraph (2). The Secretary, acting through the Technology Transfer Coordinator appointed under section 1001(a), and in consultation with the Directors, shall establish a program to provide small business concerns with vouchers— to achieve the goal described in subsection (a)(1)(A); and to improve the products, services, and capabilities of small business concerns in the mission space of the Department. Vouchers provided under the program shall be used at National Laboratories, single-purpose research facilities, and covered facilities for— research, development, demonstration, technology transfer, or commercial application activities; or any other activity that the applicable Director determines appropriate. The Secretary, in collaboration with the Directors, shall establish a streamlined approval process for expedited contracting between— a small business concern selected to receive a voucher under the program; and a National Laboratory, single-purpose research facility, or covered facility. In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall require cost-sharing in accordance with section 988. The Secretary shall include in the annual report required under section 1001(h)(2) a description of the implementation and progress of the program, including, for the year covered by the report, the number and locations of small business concerns that have received vouchers under the program. ; and in subsection
(e)(as so redesignated), by striking this section and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting subsection
(c)$25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. .
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