---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19083"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19083"
heading: "Helium conservation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19083"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter III — National Science Foundation for the Future"
  - "Part F — Research Infrastructure"
---

# §19083. Helium conservation

- (a) **Major research instrumentation support—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall support, through the Major Research Instrumentation program, proposal requests that include the purchase, installation, operation, and maintenance of equipment and instrumentation to reduce consumption of helium.
  - (2) **Cost sharing—** The [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) may waive the cost-sharing requirement for helium conservation measures for non-Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education and Ph.D.-granting institutions of higher education that are not ranked among the top 100 institutions receiving Federal research and development funding, as documented by the National [Center](/usc/42/18901.md?p=17) for Science and Engineering Statistics.
- (b) **Annual report—** No later than 1 year after August 9, 2022, and annually for the subsequent two years, the [Director](/usc/42/18921.md?p=1) shall submit an annual report to Congress on the use of funding awarded by the [Foundation](/usc/42/18901.md?p=11) for the purchase and conservation of helium. The report should include—
  - (1) the volume and price of helium purchased;
  - (2) changes in pricing and availability of helium; and
  - (3) any supply disruptions impacting a substantial number of institutions.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title III, § 10373, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1571.)