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Code · U.S. Code · Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE · CHAPTER 23— DISSEMINATION OF TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING INFORMATION · § 1152

§ 1152. Clearinghouse for technical information; removal of security classification

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The Secretary of Commerce (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) is directed to establish and maintain within the Department of Commerce a clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information, and to this end to take such steps as he may deem necessary and desirable—
(a)To search for, collect, classify, coordinate, integrate, record, and catalog such information from whatever sources, foreign and domestic, that may be available;
(b)To make such information available to industry and business, to State and local governments, to other agencies of the Federal Government, and to the general public, through the preparation of abstracts, digests, translations, bibliographies, indexes, and microfilm and other reproductions, for distribution either directly or by utilization of business, trade, technical, and scientific publications and services;
(c)To effect, within the limits of his authority as now or hereafter defined by law, and with the consent of competent authority, the removal of restrictions on the dissemination of scientific and technical data in cases where consideration of national security permit the release of such data for the benefit of industry and business.
(Sept. 9, 1950, ch. 936, § 2, 64 Stat. 823.)
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