2 U.S.C. § 475 — Powers of Office of Technology Assessment

submitted 54 years ago by Pub. L. 92-484 to r/title-2-THE-CONGRESS · 613 words · no verdicts yet

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The Office of Technology Assessment can hire outside experts, form task forces, and sign contracts to do its work. It can accept unpaid volunteers and buy or sell property it needs. Contractors must keep records that can be audited. The Office cannot run its own labs, but it can request information and staff from other federal agencies.

(a) Within its budget, the Office may do everything necessary to carry out its work under this chapter, including: using outside people and organizations, public or private, and forming special task forces; signing contracts with federal, state, or local governments, or with any person, firm, or institution, with or without reimbursement; making advance or progress payments related to technology assessment; accepting volunteer, unpaid workers and covering their travel and living costs; buying, leasing, borrowing, or accepting as a gift any real or personal property it needs, and selling, leasing, or lending property it no longer needs; and making rules governing how the Office operates. (b) Contractors and others who make agreements with the Office that involve government costs must keep detailed books and records so an audit can be done properly. These records must be available to the Office and to the Comptroller General (or their representatives) for auditing and examination. (c) The Office itself may not operate any laboratories, pilot plants, or test facilities. (d) The Office may ask any executive department or agency directly for information, suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical help needed for its work. Each department or agency that gets such a request must provide that help directly to the Office. (e) At the Office's request, the head of any executive department or agency may lend some of its staff to help the Office, with or without reimbursement. (f) The Director must appoint staff and set their pay, following policies set by the Board, as needed to carry out the Office's work.

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(a) Use of public and private personnel and organizations; formation of special ad hoc task forces; contracts with governmental, etc., agencies and instrumentalities; advance, progress, and other payments; utilization of services of voluntary and uncompensated personnel; acquisition, holding, and disposal of real and personal property; promulgation of rules and regulations

The Office shall have the authority, within the limits of available appropriations, to do all things necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including, but without being limited to, the authority to—

(1)

make full use of competent personnel and organizations outside the Office, public or private, and form special ad hoc task forces or make other arrangements when appropriate;

(2)

enter into contracts or other arrangements as may be necessary for the conduct of the work of the Office with any agency or instrumentality of the United States, with any State, territory, or possession or any political subdivision thereof, or with any person, firm, association, corporation, or educational institution, with or without reimbursement, without performance or other bonds, and without regard to section 6101 of title 41;

(3)

make advance, progress, and other payments which relate to technology assessment without regard to the provisions of section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31;

(4)

accept and utilize the services of voluntary and uncompensated personnel necessary for the conduct of the work of the Office and provide transportation and subsistence as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, for persons serving without compensation;

(5)

acquire by purchase, lease, loan, or gift, and hold and dispose of by sale, lease, or loan, real and personal property of all kinds necessary for or resulting from the exercise of authority granted by this chapter; and

(6)

prescribe such rules and regulations as it deems necessary governing the operation and organization of the Office.

(b) Recordkeeping by contractors and other parties entering into contracts and other arrangements with Office; availability of books and records to Office and Comptroller General for audit and examination

Contractors and other parties entering into contracts and other arrangements under this section which involve costs to the Government shall maintain such books and related records as will facilitate an effective audit in such detail and in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Office, and such books and records (and related documents and papers) shall be available to the Office and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, for the purpose of audit and examination.

The Office, in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, shall not, itself, operate any laboratories, pilot plants, or test facilities.

(d) Requests to executive departments or agencies for information, suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance; duty of executive departments and agencies to furnish information, etc.

The Office is authorized to secure directly from any executive department or agency information, suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this chapter. Each such executive department or agency shall furnish the information, suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance directly to the Office upon its request.

(e) Requests to heads of executive departments or agencies for detail of personnel; reimbursement

On request of the Office, the head of any executive department or agency may detail, with or without reimbursement, any of its personnel to assist the Office in carrying out its functions under this chapter.

(f) Appointment and compensation of personnel

The Director shall, in accordance with such policies as the Board shall prescribe, appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 92–484, § 6, Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 799.)

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1972Enacted · Pub. L. 92-484 · 86 Stat. 799

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