---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 5301"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "5301"
heading: "Findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/5301"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Metal Casting Competitiveness Research Program"
---

# §5301. Findings


The Congress finds that—

- (1) metal casting is an important process for manufacturing many items imported into or exported from the United States;
- (2) the encouragement and maintenance of a technically advanced United States metal casting industry is essential to the competitiveness of many American industries;
- (3) maintaining a viable metal casting industry is vital to the national security and economic well being of the United States;
- (4) the promotion of technology competitiveness and energy efficiency in the United States metal casting industry by the Federal Government is necessary to maintain a viable metal casting industry;
- (5) many metal casting companies lack the resources to conduct metal casting research alone, placing them at a serious competitive disadvantage;
- (6) the support of university-based research in metal casting is important in promoting technology development and providing industry with qualified engineers; and
- (7) by combining the resources of the Federal Government, universities, industry, and private organizations, to conduct research and development activities, substantial technological benefits will result to the metal casting industry.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–425, § 2, Oct. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 915.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 101–425, § 1, Oct. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 915, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Department of Energy Metal Casting Competitiveness Research Act of 1990’.”