42 U.S.C. § 9211 — Encouragement and protection of small business
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-345 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 174 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must give small businesses realistic opportunities to participate, protect their trade secrets and proprietary information, and enforce antitrust compliance in assisted wind-system activities.
(a) The Secretary* must take practical steps to ensure small businesses have realistic and sufficient opportunities to participate in this chapter’s programs. (b) To the greatest practical extent, the Secretary must use legal authority to protect trade secrets and other proprietary information that small businesses submit under this chapter and avoid unnecessary disclosure. (c) The Secretary must take needed steps to ensure antitrust-law compliance in activities involving manufacture or sale of wind systems directly or indirectly assisted under this chapter, and must carry out the chapter to prevent noncompetitive market situations.
In carrying out his functions under this chapter, the Secretary* shall take steps to assure that small business concerns will have realistic and adequate opportunities to participate in the programs under this chapter to the maximum extent practicable.
The Secretary shall, to the maximum extent practicable, use all authority provided by law to protect trade secrets and other proprietary information submitted by small business under this chapter and to avoid the unnecessary disclosure of such information.
The Secretary shall take such steps as may be necessary to assure compliance with the antitrust laws in the conduct of activities related to the manufacture or sale of wind energy systems directly or indirectly assisted under this chapter and shall implement this chapter in a manner which will protect against the creation of noncompetitive market situations in the conduct of such activities.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–345, § 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1146.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-345 · 94 Stat. 1146
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