---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 479"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "479"
heading: "Coordination of activities with National Science Foundation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/479"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Office of Technology Assessment"
---

# §479. Coordination of activities with National Science Foundation


The Office shall maintain a continuing liaison with the National Science Foundation with respect to—

- (1) grants and contracts formulated or activated by the Foundation which are for purposes of technology assessment; and
- (2) the promotion of coordination in areas of technology assessment, and the avoidance of unnecessary duplication or overlapping of research activities in the development of technology assessment techniques and programs.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–484, § 10(a), Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 802.)