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(5) $210,000,000 for fiscal year 2015. 
Subtitle D—Cooperative Research 
and Development Fund 
SEC. 641. SHORT TITLE. 
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Cooperative Re-
search and Development Fund Authorization Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 642. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
FUND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall make 
funds available to Department of Energy National Labora-
tories for the Federal share of cooperative research and de-
velopment agreements. The Secretary of Energy shall deter-
mine the apportionment of such funds to each Department 
of Energy National Laboratory and shall ensure that spe-
cial consideration is given to small business firms and con-
sortia involving small business firms in the selection process 
for which cooperative research and development agreements 
will receive such funds. 
(b) REPORTING.—Each year the Secretary shall sub-
mit to Congress a report that describes how funds were ex-
pended under this subtitle. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums 
as are necessary to carry out this section each fiscal year. 
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No funds allocated for this section shall come from funds 
allocated for the Office of Science. 
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 701. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that, among the programs 
and activities authorized in this Act, those that correspond 
to the recommendations of the National Academy of 
Sciences’ 2005 report entitled ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering 
Storm’’ remain critical to maintaining long-term United 
States economic competitiveness, and accordingly shall re-
ceive funding priority. 
SEC. 702. PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. 
For the purposes of the activities and programs sup-
ported by this Act and the amendments made by this Act, 
institutions of higher education chartered to serve large 
numbers of students with disabilities, including Gallaudet 
University, Landmark College, and the National Technical 
Institute for the Deaf and those with programs serving or 
those serving disabled veterans, shall receive special consid-
eration and have a designation consistent with the designa-
tion for other institutions that serve populations underrep-
resented in STEM to ensure that institutions of higher edu-
cation chartered to or serving persons with disabilities ben-
efit from such activities and programs. 
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SEC. 703. VETERANS AND SERVICE MEMBERS. 
In awarding scholarships and fellowships under this 
Act, an institution of higher education shall give preference 
to applications from veterans and service members, includ-
ing those who have received or will receive the Afghanistan 
Campaign Medal or the Iraq Campaign Medal as author-
ized by Public Law 108–234 (10 U.S.C. 1121 note; 118 
Stat. 655) and Executive Order No. 13363. 
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Union Calendar No. 271 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5116 
[Report No. 111–478, Part I] 
A BILL 
To invest in innovation through research and devel-
opment, to improve the competitiveness of the 
United States, and for other purposes. 
MAY 7, 2010 
Reported from the Committee on Science and Technology 
with an amendment 
MAY 7, 2010 
Committee on Education and Labor discharged; com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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