---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 19157"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "19157"
heading: "Merit review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/19157"
units:
  - "Chapter 163 — Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation"
  - "Subchapter V — Broadening Participation in Science"
  - "Part A — STEM Opportunities"
---

# §19157. Merit review


Nothing in this part may be construed as altering any intellectual or broader impacts criteria at [Federal research agencies](/usc/42/18901.md?p=10) for evaluating award applications.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–167, div. B, title V, § 10508, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1613.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This part, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle A (§§ 10501–10510) of title V of div. B of Pub. L. 117–167, Aug. 9, 2022, 136 Stat. 1609, which is classified principally to this part. For complete classification of subtitle A to the Code, see Tables.