---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 4708"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "4708"
heading: "Payment of reimbursable indirect costs in cost-type research and development contracts with educational institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/4708"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division C — Procurement"
  - "Chapter 47 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §4708. Payment of reimbursable indirect costs in cost-type research and development contracts with educational institutions


A cost-type research and development contract (including a grant) with a university, college, or other educational institution may provide for payment of reimbursable indirect costs on the basis of predetermined fixed-percentage rates applied to the total of the reimbursable direct costs incurred or to an element of the total of the reimbursable direct costs incurred.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3799.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 4708 | 41:254a. | Pub. L. 87–638, Sept. 5, 1962, 76 Stat. 437. |

The words “On and after September 5, 1962” are omitted as obsolete.