---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 927.402"
title: "48"
number: "927.402"
heading: "Policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/927.402"
---

# §927.402. Policy.


The technical data and scientific and technical information (STI) policies are directed toward achieving the following objectives:

- (a) Making the benefits of the energy research, development and demonstration programs of DOE widely available to the public in the shortest practicable time;
- (b) Promoting the commercial utilization of the technology developed under DOE programs;
- (c) Encouraging participation by private persons in DOE energy research, development, and demonstration programs; and
- (d) Fostering competition and preventing undue market concentration or the creation or maintenance of other situations inconsistent with the antitrust laws.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 12004, Mar. 28, 1984. Redesignated and amended at 89 FR 89756, Nov. 13, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2168, 2182, 2201); Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5908); Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 7261a.); Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq. ); National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 4201 et seq. )

### Source

Source: 49 FR 12004, Mar. 28, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 12004, Mar. 28, 1984. Redesignated and amended at 89 FR 89756, Nov. 13, 2024]