---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9307"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9307"
heading: "Program advisory committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9307"
units:
  - "Chapter 101 — Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering"
---

# §9307. Program advisory committees


The [Secretary](/usc/42/9302.md?p=6) may direct the [director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of each laboratory or installation at which a major [magnetic fusion](/usc/42/9302.md?p=2) facility is operated for, or funded primarily by, the Federal Government to establish, for the sole purpose of providing advice to such [director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5), a program [advisory committee](/usc/42/17061.md?p=2) composed of persons with expertise in [magnetic fusion](/usc/42/9302.md?p=2) from such domestic industry, universities, government laboratories, and other scientific and technical organizations as such [director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) deems appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–386, § 8, Oct. 7, 1980, 94 Stat. 1543.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of Advisory Committees

Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.