---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2416"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2416"
heading: "Contracts and other funding arrangements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2416"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
  - "Subchapter II — National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
---

# §2416. Contracts and other funding arrangements

- (a) **Qualification of contracts or arrangements—** No contracts or other funding arrangements may be entered into under this chapter unless—
  - (1) such contracts or other funding arrangements will be consistent with the policies and purposes of this chapter and of potential benefit to other users in the public or private sectors;
  - (2) provisions are made to evaluate the demonstration program and maintain improvement data, such evaluation either to be implemented by the participating parties in accordance with specifications established by the [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1), or to be implemented by or on behalf of the [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1); and
  - (3) the participating parties agree that all information relating to any innovation or achievement generated in the course of any [Center](/usc/15/2404.md?p=1)-funded demonstration program shall be public information.
- (b) **Duration of contracts or arrangements—** No contract or other funding arrangement shall be made or entered into pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for a period of more than three years.
- (c) **Non-Federal share of project in cash or in kind—** Any non-Federal share of a project may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including, but not limited to, plant, equipment, or services.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–136, title II, § 206, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 739.)