---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6618"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6618"
heading: "Major science and technology proposals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6618"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Science and Technology Policy, Organization and Priorities"
  - "Subchapter II — Office of Science and Technology Policy"
---

# §6618. Major science and technology proposals


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall identify and provide an annual report to Congress on each major multinational science and technology [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2), in which the United States is not a participant, which has a total estimated cost greater than $1,000,000,000.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–282, title II, § 209, as added Pub. L. 102–245, title V, § 502, Feb. 14, 1992, 106 Stat. 24.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6618, Pub. L. 94–282, title II, § 209, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 468, directed President to transmit annually to Congress a report on science and technology to be prepared by Office of Science and Technology Policy, and directed Director of Office to make the report available as a public document, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–375, title II, § 215(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1826. See section 6615 of this title.