15 U.S.C. § 4602 — Grants to Sematech
submitted 39 years ago by Pub. L. 100-180 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 562 words · no verdicts yet
(a) The Defense Secretary must make grants under section 6304 of title 31 to Sematech for its semiconductor-manufacturing research and development expenses. Grants must follow a memorandum of understanding under (b). (b) The Secretary must enter that memorandum.
(a) The Defense Secretary must make grants under section 6304 of title 31 to Sematech* for its semiconductor-manufacturing research and development expenses. Grants must follow a memorandum of understanding under (b).
(b) The Secretary must enter that memorandum. It must require (1) a charter agreed to by all participating industry representatives and an annual plan developed with the Secretary and Council*; (2) Federal, State, and local support for the activities in a fiscal year not exceeding 50 percent of their total cost; (3) cooperation with and use of Energy Department national laboratories and United States colleges and universities; (4) an independent commercial auditor to determine whether United States funds were spent consistently with this subchapter, Sematech’s charter, and annual plan, and to report annually to the Secretary, Sematech, and Comptroller General; (5) the Defense Secretary may use Sematech intellectual property, trade secrets, and technical data as a participant and transfer them to Defense contractors for Defense needs, but not for commercial use; and (6) Sematech must maximize prompt transfer of its technology to participants under their agreement to improve United States semiconductor productivity.
(c) The memorandum is not a Federal contract for laws or regulations about Federal contracts or subcontracts, including the cited title 10 chapter, Defense Production Act section, and Federal Acquisition Regulations; those provisions do not apply.
(d) Of fiscal-year 1988 Defense Agency research, development, testing, and evaluation appropriations, $100 million may be obligated only for grants under this section.
The Secretary of Defense shall make grants, in accordance with section 6304 of title 31, to Sematech* in order to defray expenses incurred by Sematech in conducting research on and development of semiconductor manufacturing technology. The grants shall be made in accordance with a memorandum of understanding entered into under subsection (b).
The Secretary of Defense shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with Sematech for the purposes of this subchapter. The memorandum of understanding shall require the following:
That Sematech have—
a charter agreed to by all representatives of the semiconductor industry that are participating members of Sematech; and
an annual operating plan that is developed in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Semiconductor Technology Council*.
That the total amount of funds made available to Sematech by Federal, State, and local government agencies for any fiscal year for the support of research and development activities of Sematech under this section may not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of such activities.
That Sematech, in conducting research and development activities pursuant to the memorandum of understanding, cooperate with and draw on the expertise of the national laboratories of the Department of Energy and of colleges and universities in the United States in the field of semiconductor manufacturing technology.
That an independent, commercial auditor be retained (A) to determine the extent to which the funds made available to Sematech by the United States for the research and development activities of Sematech have been expended in a manner that is consistent with the purposes of this subchapter, the charter of Sematech, and the annual operating plan of Sematech, and (B) to submit to the Secretary of Defense, Sematech, and the Comptroller General of the United States an annual report containing the findings and determinations of such auditor.
That (A) the Secretary of Defense be permitted to use intellectual property, trade secrets, and technical data owned and developed by Sematech in the same manner as a participant in Sematech and to transfer such intellectual property, trade secrets, and technical data to Department of Defense contractors for use in connection with Department of Defense requirements, and (B) the Secretary not be permitted to transfer such property to any person for commercial use.
That Sematech take all steps necessary to maximize the expeditious and timely transfer of technology developed and owned by Sematech to the participants in Sematech in accordance with the agreement between Sematech and those participants and for the purpose of improving manufacturing productivity of United States semiconductor firms.
The memorandum of understanding entered into under subsection (b) shall not be considered to be a contract for the purpose of any law or regulation relating to the formation, content, and administration* of contracts awarded by the Federal Government and subcontracts under such contracts, including chapter 271 of title 10, section 719 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2168),1 and the Federal Acquisition Regulations, and such provisions of law and regulation shall not apply with respect to the memorandum of understanding.
Of the amounts appropriated to the Defense Agencies for fiscal year 1988 for research, development, test, and evaluation, $100,000,000 may be obligated only to make grants under this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title II, § 272, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1068; Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title II, § 263(c)(2), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1610; Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title XVII, § 1702(e)(7), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2157.)
- 1987Enacted · Pub. L. 100-180 · 101 Stat. 1068
- 1993Amended · Pub. L. 103-160 · 107 Stat. 1610
- 2021Amended · Pub. L. 117-81 · 135 Stat. 2157
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 100-180 on 1987-12-04.
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