---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 7507"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "7507"
heading: "Department of Energy programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/7507"
units:
  - "Chapter 101 — Nanotechnology Research and Development"
---

# §7507. Department of Energy programs

- (a) **Research consortia—**
  - (1) **Department of Energy program—** The Secretary of Energy shall establish a [program](/usc/15/7509.md?p=3) to support, on a merit-reviewed and competitive basis, consortia to conduct interdisciplinary [nanotechnology](/usc/15/7509.md?p=2) research and development designed to integrate newly developed [nanotechnology](/usc/15/7509.md?p=2) and microfluidic tools with systems biology and molecular imaging.
  - (2) **Authorization of appropriations—** Of the sums authorized for the Department of Energy under [section 7505(b) of this title](/usc/15/7505.md?p=b), $25,000,000 shall be used for each fiscal year 2005 through 2008 to carry out this section. Of these amounts, not less than $10,000,000 shall be provided to at least 1 consortium for each fiscal year.
- (b) **Research centers and major instrumentation—** The Secretary of Energy shall carry out projects to develop, plan, construct, acquire, operate, or support special equipment, instrumentation, or facilities for investigators conducting research and development in [nanotechnology](/usc/15/7509.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–153, § 8, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1930.)