(2) If a circumstance described in subsection (a)(1),
(2), (3), or (4) occurs after the completion of one year
of a service obligation under this title, but before the com-
pletion of the second year of such service obligation, the
United States shall be entitled to recover from the indi-
vidual, within one year after the date of the occurrence
of such circumstance, an amount equal to—
(A) the total amount of awards received by
such individual under this title minus $3,750; plus
(B) the interest on such amounts which would
be payable if at the time the amounts were received
they were loans bearing interest at the maximum
legal prevailing rate, as determined by the Treasurer
of the United States,
multiplied by 3.
(3) If a circumstance described in subsection (a)(1),
(2), (3), or (4) occurs after the completion of two years
of a service obligation under this title, but before the com-
pletion of the third year of such service obligation, the
United States shall be entitled to recover from the indi-
vidual, within one year after the date of the occurrence
of such circumstance, an amount equal to—
(A) the total amount of awards received by
such individual under this title minus $7,500; plus
(B) the interest on such amounts which would
be payable if at the time the amounts were received
they were loans bearing interest at the maximum
legal prevailing rate, as determined by the Treasurer
of the United States,
multiplied by 3.
(4) If a circumstance described in subsection (a)(1),
(2), (3), or (4) occurs after the completion of three years
of a service obligation under this title, but before the com-
pletion of the fourth year of such service obligation, the
United States shall be entitled to recover from the indi-
vidual, within one year after the date of the occurrence
of such circumstance, an amount equal to—
(A) the total amount of awards received by
such individual under this title minus $11,250; plus
(B) the interest on such amounts which would
be payable if at the time the amounts were received
they were loans bearing interest at the maximum
legal prevailing rate, as determined by the Treasurer
of the United States,
multiplied by 3.
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—(1) The National Science Founda-
tion may provide for the partial or total waiver or suspen-
sion of any service obligation or payment by an individual
under this title whenever compliance by the individual is
impossible or would involve extreme hardship to the indi-
vidual, or if enforcement of such obligation with respect
to the individual would be unconscionable.
(2) Any obligation of an individual under this title
for payment under subsection (b) may be released by a
discharge in bankruptcy under title 11, United States
Code, only if such discharge is granted after the expiration
of the 5-year period beginning on the first date that such
payment is required.
SEC. 410. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to the National Science Foundation to carry out
this title $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2002
through 2005.
(b) SPECIFIC APPROPRIATIONS.—There are author-
ized to be appropriated to the National Science Founda-
tion to support the activities described in subsections
(b)(1)(A) and (C) and (b)(2)(A) and (C) of section 402,
such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years
2006 through 2011.
TITLE 
V—SCIENCE, 
MATHE-
MATICS, ENGINEERING, AND
TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS EDU-
CATION CONFERENCE
SEC. 501. REQUIREMENT TO CONVENE CONFERENCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Science and Technology Policy shall convene a con-
ference on improving kindergarten through 12th grade
science, mathematics, and technology education.
(b) PARTICIPANTS.—The Director of the Office of
Science and Technology Policy shall ensure that partici-
pants in the conference include, at a minimum—
(1) representatives of private industry;
(2) representatives from Federal, State, and
local governments;
(3) elementary and secondary mathematics,
science, and technology teachers;
(4) administrators from local educational agen-
cies;
(5) publishers of science, mathematics, engi-
neering, and technology textbooks and software;
(6) professional scientists, mathematicians, and
engineers;
(7) students; and
(8) any other stakeholders the Director of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy determines
would provide useful participation in the conference.
(c) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the conference shall
be to—
(1) share information on successful science,
mathematics, engineering, and technology education
programs; and
(2) identify strategies for expanding the partici-
pation of the private sector in elementary and sec-
ondary mathematics and science education reform.
(d) REPORT AND PUBLICATION.—At the conclusion
of the conference the Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy shall—
(1) transmit to the Committee on Science of the
House of Representatives and to the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Sen-
ate a report on the outcome and conclusions of the
conference, including recommendations for any legis-
lation that could promote improvement in elemen-
tary and secondary science, mathematics, and tech-
nology education; and
(2) ensure that a similar report is published
and distributed as widely as possible to people inter-
ested in science, mathematics, engineering, and tech-
nology education.
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated for the Office of Science
and Technology Policy to carry out this title $300,000 for
fiscal year 2002.
TITLE VI—REQUIREMENTS FOR
RESEARCH CENTERS
SEC. 601. REQUIREMENTS FOR RESEARCH CENTERS.
The Director shall ensure that any National Science
Foundation program that awards grants for the establish-
ment of research centers at institutions of higher edu-
cation after the date of the enactment of this Act—
(1) requires that every center offer programs
for elementary and secondary mathematics and
science teachers and students to increase their un-
derstanding of the field in which the center special-
izes; and
(2) uses the quality of a center’s proposed
precollege education programs as a criterion in de-
termining grant awards.
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