Sec. 5136. ACCURACY IN FUNDING BASE CALCULATIONS
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## SEC. 5136 ACCURACY IN FUNDING BASE CALCULATIONS **[**[15 U.S.C. 638 note](/us/usc/t15/s638)**]** ###
(a)In General Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter until the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall— ####
(1)conduct a fiscal and management audit of the SBIR program and the STTR program for the applicable period to— #####
(A)determine whether Federal agencies comply with the expenditure amount requirements under subsections (f)(1) and (n)(1) of section 9 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638), as amended by this title; #####
(B)assess the extent of compliance with the requirements of section 9(i)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 638(i)(2)) by Federal agencies participating in the SBIR program or the STTR program and the Administration; #####
(C)assess whether it would be more consistent and effective to base the amount of the allocations under the SBIR program and the STTR program on a percentage of the research and development budget of a Federal agency, rather than the extramural budget of the Federal agency; and #####
(D)determine the portion of the extramural research or research and development budget of a Federal agency that each Federal agency spends for administrative purposes relating to the SBIR program or STTR program, and for what specific purposes it is used, including the portion, if any, of such budget the Federal agency spends for salaries and expenses, travel to visit applicants, outreach events, marketing, and technical assistance; and ####
(2)submit a report to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives regarding the audit conducted under paragraph (1), including the assessments required under subparagraph
(B)and the determinations made under subparagraph
(D)of paragraph (1). ###
(b)Definition of Applicable Period In this section, the term “applicable period” means— ####
(1)for the first report submitted under this section, the period beginning on October 1, 2005, and ending on September 30 of the last full fiscal year before the date of enactment of this Act for which information is available; and ####
(2)for the second and each subsequent report submitted under this section, the period— #####
(A)beginning on October 1 of the first fiscal year after the end of the most recent full fiscal year relating to which a report under this section was submitted; and #####
(B)ending on September 30 of the last full fiscal year before the date of the report.
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