---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 473.30"
title: "10"
number: "473.30"
heading: "Standards and criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/473.30"
---

# §473.30. Standards and criteria.


Research and development to be performed under a grant, under a cooperative agreement, under a contract, as a DOE project, or as an agency project under the Act may be certified under these regulations only if the research and development to be conducted—

- (a) Supplements the automotive propulsion system research and development efforts of industry or any other private researcher;
- (b) Is not duplicative of efforts previously abandoned by private researchers unless there has been an intervening technological advance, promising conceptual innovation, or justified by other special consideration;
- (c) Would not be performed during the annual funding period but for the availability of the Federal funding being sought;
- (d) Is likely to produce an advanced automobile propulsion system suitable for steps toward technology transfer to mass production in a shorter time period than would otherwise occur;
- (e) Is not technologically the same as efforts by any person conducted previously or to be conducted during the annual funding period regarding a substantially similar advanced automobile propulsion system; and
- (f) Is not likely to result in a decrease in the level of private resources expended on advanced automotive research and development by substituting Federal funds without justification.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Federal Energy Administration Act of 1978—Civilian Applications, Pub. L. 95-238; Department of Energy Organization Act, Pub. L. 95-91.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 55230, Nov. 24, 1978, unless otherwise noted.