---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18998"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18998"
heading: "Mandatory cost-sharing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18998"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part B — STEM Education"
---

# §18998. Mandatory cost-sharing

- (a) **Waiver—** The cost-sharing requirements under section 1862o-14(c) of this title for the Major Research Instrumentation Program and under section 1862n-1a(i) of this title for teaching fellowships administered within the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program are waived for a period of 5 years following August 9, 2022.
- (b) **Assessment—** Not later than 5 years following August 9, 2022, the [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall submit to Congress an assessment, that includes feedback from the research community, of the impacts of the waivers provided under [subsection (a)](#a), including—
  - (1) programmatic and scientific goals;
  - (2) institutional commitment and stewardship of Federal resources;
  - (3) institutional strategic planning and administrative burden;
  - (4) equity among [recipient](/usc/42/18901.md?p=24) institutions; and
  - (5) recommendations for or against extending or making permanent such waivers.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10320, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1536.)