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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5262 
To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to authorize the Administrator 
for Nuclear Security to establish technology transfer centers at national 
security laboratories, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 11, 2010 
Mr. GARAMENDI (for himself and Mr. MCNERNEY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in ad-
dition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Atomic Energy Defense Act to authorize the 
Administrator for Nuclear Security to establish tech-
nology transfer centers at national security laboratories, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 
CENTERS. 
(a) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTERS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 4813 of the Atomic 
Energy Defense Act (division D of Public Law 107– 
314; 50 U.S.C. 2794) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c); and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (a) the 
following new subsection (b): 
‘‘(b) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER CENTERS.—(1) Sub-
ject to the availability of appropriations provided for such 
purpose, the Administrator shall establish at Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 
and Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 
a technology transfer center described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) A technology transfer center described in this 
paragraph is a center to foster collaborative scientific re-
search, technology development, and the appropriate 
transfer of research and technology to users in addition 
to the national security laboratories. 
‘‘(3) In addition to the technology transfer centers 
established under paragraph (1), the Administrator may 
establish a technology transfer center described in para-
graph (2) at any other national security laboratory. 
‘‘(4) In establishing a technology transfer center 
under this subsection, the Administrator— 
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‘‘(A) shall enter into cooperative research and 
development agreements with governmental, public, 
academic, or private entities; and 
‘‘(B) may enter into a contract with respect to 
constructing, purchasing, managing, or leasing 
buildings or other facilities.’’. 
(2) DEFINITION.—Subsection (c) of such sec-
tion, as redesignated by paragraph (1)(A), is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(5) The term ‘national security laboratory’ has 
the meaning given that term in section 3281 of the 
National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 
U.S.C. 2471).’’. 
(3) SECTION HEADING.—The heading of such 
section is amended by inserting ‘‘AND
TECH-
NOLOGY TRANSFER CENTERS’’ after ‘‘PARTNER-
SHIPS’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 4001(b) of such Act (division D of Public Law 
107–314) is amended by striking the item relating to sec-
tion 4813 and inserting the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 4813. Critical technology partnerships and technology transfer centers.’’. 
Æ 
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