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‘‘(2) The General Counsel shall be compensated at the
rate provided for level IV of the Executive Schedule under
section 5315 of title 5, United States Code.’’.
(2) Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended by striking ‘‘Under Secretaries of Energy
(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘Under Secretaries of Energy (3)’’.
(3) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code,
is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘Assistant Secretaries of
Energy (6)’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistant Secretaries
of Energy (8)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘Director, Office of Science,
Department of Energy.’’.
SEC. 1011. OTHER TRANSACTIONS AUTHORITY.
Section 646 of the Department of Energy Organization
Act (42 U.S.C. 7256) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(g)(1) In addition to other authorities granted to the
Secretary under any other provision of law, the Secretary
may enter into other transactions on such terms as the Sec-
retary may consider appropriate in furtherance of research,
development, or demonstration functions vested in the Sec-
retary.
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‘‘(2) The other transactions shall not be subject to sec-
tion 9 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and De-
velopment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5908).
‘‘(3)(A) The Secretary shall ensure that—
‘‘(i) to the maximum extent the Secretary deter-
mines practicable, no transaction entered into under
paragraph (1) provides for research, development, or
demonstration that duplicates research, development,
or demonstration being conducted under existing
projects carried out by the Department;
‘‘(ii) to the extent the Secretary determines prac-
ticable, the funds provided by the Federal Government
under a transaction authorized by paragraph (1) do
not exceed the total amount provided by other parties
to the transaction; and
‘‘(iii) to the extent the Secretary determines
practicable, competitive, merit-based selection proce-
dures shall be used when entering into transactions
under paragraph (1).
‘‘(B) A transaction authorized by paragraph (1) may
be used for a research, development, or demonstration
project only if the Secretary determines the use of a stand-
ard contract, grant, or cooperative agreement for the project
is not feasible or appropriate.
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‘‘(4)(A) The Secretary shall protect from disclosure
(including disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United
States Code) for up to 5 years after the date the information
is received by the Secretary—
‘‘(i) a proposal, proposal abstract, and sup-
porting documents submitted to the Department in a
competitive or noncompetitive process having the po-
tential for resulting in an award to the party submit-
ting the information entering into a transaction
under paragraph (1); and
‘‘(ii) a business plan and technical information
relating to a transaction authorized by paragraph (1)
submitted to the Department as confidential business
information.
‘‘(B) The Secretary may protect from disclosure, for
up to 5 years after the information was developed, any in-
formation developed pursuant to a transaction under para-
graph (1) which developed information is of a character
that it would be protected from disclosure under section
552(b)(4) of title 5, United States Code, if obtained from
a person other than a Federal agency.
‘‘(5)(A) Not later than 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this subsection, the Secretary shall prescribe guide-
lines for using other transactions authorized by paragraph
(1).
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‘‘(B) The guidelines shall be published in the Federal
Register for public comment under rulemaking procedures
of the Department.
‘‘(6) The authority of the Secretary under this sub-
section may be delegated only to an officer of the Depart-
ment who is appointed by the President by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate and may not be delegated
to any other person.’’.
SEC. 1012. PRIZES FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN GRAND CHAL-
LENGES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may carry out a pro-
gram to award cash prizes in recognition of breakthrough
achievements in research, development, demonstration, and
commercial application that have the potential for applica-
tion to the performance of the mission of the Department.
(b) COMPETITION
REQUIREMENTS.—The program
under subsection (a) may include prizes for the achievement
of goals articulated by the Secretary in a specific area
through a widely advertised solicitation of submission of re-
sults for research, development, demonstration, or commer-
cial application projects.
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER AUTHORITY.—The pro-
gram under subsection (a) may be carried out in conjunc-
tion with or in addition to the exercise of any other author-
ity of the Secretary to acquire, support, or stimulate re-
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search, development, demonstration, or commercial applica-
tion projects.
SEC. 1013. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.
(a) COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Public Law 86–599 (30
U.S.C. 661 et seq.) is amended—
(A) by striking the first section (30 U.S.C.
661) and inserting the following:
‘‘SECTION 1. (a) This Act may be cited as the ‘Coal
Research and Development Act of 1960’.
‘‘(b) In this Act:
‘‘(1) The term ‘research’ means scientific, tech-
nical, and economic research and the practical appli-
cation of that research.
‘‘(2) The term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of
Energy.’’;
(B) in section 2 (30 U.S.C. 662), by strik-
ing ‘‘shall establish within’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘such Office’’;
(C) by striking sections 3, 4, and 7 (30
U.S.C. 663, 664, 667); and
(D) by redesignating sections 5, 6, and 8
(30 U.S.C. 665, 666, 668) as sections 3, 4, and
5, respectively.