---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6619"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6619"
heading: "National coordination of research infrastructure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6619"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Science and Technology Policy, Organization and Priorities"
  - "Subchapter II — Office of Science and Technology Policy"
---

# §6619. National coordination of research infrastructure

- (a) **Identification and prioritization of deficiencies in Federal research facilities—** Each year the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall, through the National Science and Technology Council, identify and prioritize the deficiencies in research facilities and major instrumentation located at Federal laboratories and national user facilities at academic institutions that are widely accessible for use by researchers in the United States. In prioritizing such deficiencies, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall consider research needs in areas relevant to the specific mission requirements of Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).
- (b) **Planning for acquisition, refurbishment, and maintenance of research facilities and major instrumentation—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall, through the National Science and Technology Council, coordinate the planning by Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for the acquisition, refurbishment, and maintenance of research facilities and major instrumentation to address the deficiencies identified under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Report—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall submit to Congress each year, together with documents submitted to Congress in support of the budget of the President for the fiscal year beginning in such year (as submitted pursuant to [section 1105 of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md)), a report, current as of the fiscal year ending in the year before such report is submitted, setting forth the following:
  - (1) A description of the deficiencies in research infrastructure identified in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) A list of [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) and budget proposals of Federal research facilities, set forth by [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), for major instrumentation acquisitions that are included in the budget proposal of the President.
  - (3) An explanation of how the [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) and instrumentation acquisitions described in [paragraph (2)](#c-2) relate to the deficiencies and priorities identified pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–69, title I, § 1007, Aug. 9, 2007, 121 Stat. 580.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Act, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, and not as part of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 which comprises this chapter.