I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1067 
To establish a Federal coordination and planning process for advanced 
research instrumentation and facilities. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2007 
Mr. BAIRD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Science and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, 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 concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a Federal coordination and planning process 
for advanced research instrumentation and facilities. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Instruments are the key to the advancement 
of scientific and engineering research and the devel-
opment of new and improved technologies. 
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(2) The need for specialized instruments has 
become broader, crossing scientific and engineering 
disciplines. 
(3) Research progress in interdisciplinary fields 
increasingly relies on the availability of advanced in-
struments, or systems of instruments, that require 
highly specialized knowledge and training for their 
proper operation and use. 
(4) A committee of the National Academy of 
Sciences has recommended that Federal research 
agencies place greater emphasis on developing for-
mal mechanisms to support access by researchers to 
advanced instruments that exceed the cost of instru-
ments that can be acquired under normal research 
grants and that require special support arrange-
ments for their operation and use. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADVANCED
RESEARCH
INSTRUMENTATION 
AND FACILITIES.—The term ‘‘advanced research in-
strumentation and facilities’’ means instrumentation 
that is used for research, including collections of 
closely related or interacting instruments, networks 
of sensors, databases, and cyber infrastructure and 
that is commonly acquired by large-scale centers or 
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research programs rather than by individual inves-
tigators. 
(2) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
Policy. 
SEC. 3. COORDINATION. 
The Director shall use the National Science and 
Technology Council as a forum for coordination and col-
laboration among Federal agencies in developing best 
practices for the support of advanced research instrumen-
tation and facilities at academic institutions, and shall en-
courage the development of centralized programs for sup-
port of advanced research instrumentation and facilities 
at all Federal research agencies that sponsor research at 
academic institutions. This forum shall also provide advice 
to the Director in developing advanced research instru-
mentation and facilities policies in accordance with section 
4. 
SEC. 4. POLICY FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTRUMENTA-
TION AND FACILITIES. 
The Director shall develop and implement policies for 
Federal support for advanced research instrumentation 
and facilities, which shall include— 
(1) consistent policies among Federal agencies 
for the support of the operations and maintenance 
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