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(4) State and local governments. 
(5) Consortia of entities described in paragraphs (1) through 
(4). 
(c) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that 
research, development, demonstration, and commercial application 
activities carried out by the Department should be awarded using 
competitive procedures, to the maximum extent practicable. 
SEC. 990. EXTERNAL TECHNICAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENTAL PRO-
GRAMS. 
(a) NATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY 
BOARDS.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish one or 
more advisory boards to review research, development, dem-
onstration, and commercial application programs of the Depart-
ment in energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear energy, 
and fossil energy. 
(2) ALTERNATIVES.—The Secretary may— 
(A) designate an existing advisory board within the 
Department to fulfill the responsibilities of an advisory 
board under this section; and 
(B) enter into appropriate arrangements with the 
National Academy of Sciences to establish such an advisory 
board. 
(b) USE OF EXISTING COMMITTEES.—The Secretary shall con-
tinue to use the scientific program advisory committees chartered 
under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) by 
the Office of Science to oversee research and development programs 
under that Office. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—Each advisory board under this section shall 
consist of persons with appropriate expertise representing a diverse 
range of interests. 
(d) MEETINGS AND GOALS.— 
(1) MEETINGS.—Each advisory board under this section 
shall meet at least semiannually to review and advise on the 
progress made by the respective one or more research, develop-
ment, demonstration, and commercial application programs. 
(2) GOALS.—The advisory board shall review the measur-
able cost and performance-based goals for the programs as 
established under section 902, and the progress on meeting 
the goals. 
(e) PERIODIC REVIEWS AND ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall enter into appropriate 
arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct 
periodic reviews and assessments of— 
(A) the research, development, demonstration, and 
commercial application programs authorized by this Act 
and amendments made by this Act; 
(B) the measurable cost and performance-based goals 
for the programs as established under section 902, if any; 
and 
(C) the progress on meeting the goals. 
(2) TIMING.—The reviews and assessments shall be con-
ducted every 5 years or more often as the Secretary considers 
necessary.
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(3) REPORTS.—The Secretary shall submit to Congress 
reports describing the results of all the reviews and assess-
ments. 
SEC. 991. NATIONAL LABORATORY DESIGNATION. 
After the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
not designate a facility that is not listed in section 2(3) as a 
National Laboratory. 
SEC. 992. REPORT ON EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY PRAC-
TICES. 
Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to Con-
gress a report on the equal employment opportunity practices at 
National Laboratories. Such report shall include— 
(1) a thorough review of each National Laboratory contrac-
tor’s equal employment opportunity policies, including pro-
motion to management and professional positions and pay 
raises; 
(2) a statistical report on complaints and their disposition 
in the National Laboratories; 
(3) a description of how equal employment opportunity 
practices at the National Laboratories are treated in the con-
tract and in calculating award fees for each contractor; 
(4) a summary of disciplinary actions and their disposition 
by either the Department or the relevant contractors for each 
National Laboratory; 
(5) a summary of outreach efforts to attract women and 
minorities to the National Laboratories; 
(6) a summary of efforts to retain women and minorities 
in the National Laboratories; and 
(7) a summary of collaboration efforts with the Office of 
Federal Contract Compliance Programs to improve equal 
employment opportunity practices at the National Laboratories. 
SEC. 993. STRATEGY AND PLAN FOR SCIENCE AND ENERGY FACILITIES 
AND INFRASTRUCTURE. 
(a) FACILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop and imple-
ment a strategy for facilities and infrastructure supported pri-
marily from the Office of Science, the Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, the Office of Fossil Energy, or the 
Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology Programs 
at all National Laboratories and single-purpose research facili-
ties. 
(2) STRATEGY.—The strategy shall provide cost-effective 
means for— 
(A) maintaining existing facilities and infrastructure; 
(B) closing unneeded facilities; 
(C) making facility modifications; and 
(D) building new facilities. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall prepare and submit, 
along with the budget request of the President submitted to 
Congress for fiscal year 2008, a report describing the strategy 
developed under subsection (a).
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(2) CONTENTS.—For each National Laboratory and single-
purpose research facility that is primarily used for science 
and energy research, the report shall contain— 
(A) the current priority list of proposed facilities and 
infrastructure projects, including cost and schedule require-
ments; 
(B) a current 10-year plan that demonstrates the 
reconfiguration of its facilities and infrastructure to meet 
its missions and to address its long-term operational costs 
and return on investment; 
(C) the total current budget for all facilities and infra-
structure funding; and 
(D) the current status of each facility and infrastruc-
ture project compared to the original baseline cost, 
schedule, and scope. 
SEC. 
994. 
STRATEGIC 
RESEARCH 
PORTFOLIO 
ANALYSIS 
AND 
COORDINATION PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall periodically review all 
of the science and technology activities of the Department in a 
strategic framework that takes into account both the frontiers of 
science to which the Department can contribute and the national 
needs relevant to the Department’s statutory missions. 
(b) COORDINATION ANALYSIS AND PLAN.—As part of the review 
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall develop a coordination 
plan to improve coordination and collaboration in research, develop-
ment, demonstration, and commercial application activities across 
Department organizational boundaries. 
(c) PLAN CONTENTS.—The plan shall describe— 
(1) cross-cutting scientific and technical issues and research 
questions that span more than one program or major office 
of the Department; 
(2) how the applied technology programs of the Department 
are coordinating their activities, and addressing those ques-
tions; 
(3) ways in which the technical interchange within the 
Department, particularly between the Office of Science and 
the applied technology programs, can be enhanced, including 
ways in which the research agendas of the Office of Science 
and the applied programs can interact and assist each other; 
(4) a description of how the Secretary will ensure that 
the Department’s overall research agenda include, in addition 
to 
fundamental, 
curiosity-driven 
research, 
fundamental 
research related to topics of concern to the applied programs, 
and applications in Departmental technology programs of 
research results generated by fundamental, curiosity-driven 
research. 
(d) PLAN TRANSMITTAL.—Not later than 12 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, and every 4 years thereafter, the 
Secretary shall transmit to Congress the results of the review 
under subsection (a) and the coordination plan under subsection 
(b). 
SEC. 995. COMPETITIVE AWARD OF MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS. 
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary by this title may be used to award a management and 
operating contract for a National Laboratory (excluding those named 
in subparagraphs (G), (H), (N), and (O) of section 2 (3)), unless