---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7708"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7708"
heading: "Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7708"
units:
  - "Chapter 86 — Earthquake Hazards Reduction"
---

# §7708. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Science Foundation shall establish the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation that will upgrade, link, and integrate a system of geographically distributed experimental facilities for earthquake engineering testing of full-sized structures and their components and partial-scale physical models. The system shall be integrated through networking software so that integrated models and databases can be used to create model-based simulation, and the components of the system shall be interconnected with a computer network and allow for remote access, information sharing, and collaborative research.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** In addition to amounts appropriated under [section 7706(c) of this title](/usc/42/7706.md?p=c), there are authorized to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation—
  - (1) $28,200,000 for fiscal year 2001;
  - (2) $24,400,000 for fiscal year 2002;
  - (3) $4,500,000 for fiscal year 2003;
  - (4) $17,000,000 for fiscal year 2004;
  - (5) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2005, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance;
  - (6) $20,400,000 for fiscal year 2006, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance;
  - (7) $20,870,000 for fiscal year 2007, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance;
  - (8) $21,390,000 for fiscal year 2008, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance; and
  - (9) $21,930,000 for fiscal year 2009, all of which shall be available for operations and maintenance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–124, § 14, as added Pub. L. 106–503, title II, § 205, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2306; amended Pub. L. 108–360, title I, § 104(c), Oct. 25, 2004, 118 Stat. 1675.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b)(5) to (9). Pub. L. 108–360 added pars. (5) to (9).