---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 970.1707-2"
title: "48"
number: "970.1707-2"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/970.1707-2"
---

# §970.1707-2. Purpose.


The purpose of DOE's Strategic Partnership Projects Program is to—

- (a) Provide access for non-DOE entities to highly specialized or unique DOE facilities, services, or technical expertise, when private facilities are inadequate;
- (b) Increase research and development interactions among DOE's management and operating contractors and industry in order to transfer DOE technologies to industry for further development or commercialization;
- (c) Maintain facility core competencies;
- (d) Enhance the science and technology capabilities at DOE facilities; and
- (e) Provide assistance to other Federal agencies and non-Federal entities in accomplishing goals that may otherwise be unattainable and to avoid the possible duplication of effort at Federal facilities.

## Notes

### Amendments

[69 FR 75003, Dec. 15, 2004, as amended at 74 FR 36372, July 22, 2009; 80 FR 15519, Mar. 24, 2015]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 2282a; 2282b; 2282c; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 81009, Dec. 22, 2000, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[69 FR 75003, Dec. 15, 2004, as amended at 74 FR 36372, July 22, 2009; 80 FR 15519, Mar. 24, 2015]