---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 4629"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "4629"
heading: "Avoidance of duplication"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/4629"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Semiconductor Research"
  - "Subchapter II — Department of Energy Semiconductor Technology Research Excellence Initiative"
---

# §4629. Avoidance of duplication


In carrying out the Initiative, the Secretary of Energy shall ensure that unnecessary duplicative research is not performed at the research facilities (including the national laboratories of the Department of Energy) that are participating in the Initiative.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–180, div. C, title I, § 3149, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1244.)