---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16356"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16356"
heading: "Report on equal employment opportunity practices"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16356"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter IX — Research and Development"
  - "Part I — Research Administration and Operations"
---

# §16356. Report on equal employment opportunity practices


Not later than 12 months after August 8, 2005, and biennially thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/42/15801.md?p=4) shall transmit to Congress a report on the equal employment opportunity [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) at [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3). Such report shall include—

- (1) a thorough review of each [National Laboratory](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3) contractor’s equal employment opportunity policies, including promotion to management and professional positions and pay raises;
- (2) a statistical report on complaints and their disposition in the [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3);
- (3) a description of how equal employment opportunity [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) at the [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3) are treated in the contract and in calculating award fees for each contractor;
- (4) a summary of disciplinary actions and their disposition by either the [Department](/usc/42/15801.md?p=1) or the relevant contractors for each [National Laboratory](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3);
- (5) a summary of outreach efforts to attract women and minorities to the [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3);
- (6) a summary of efforts to retain women and minorities in the [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3); and
- (7) a summary of collaboration efforts with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to improve equal employment opportunity [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) at the [National Laboratories](/usc/42/15801.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 992, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 913.)