---
kind: "section"
citation: "51 U.S.C. § 30302"
title: "51"
title_heading: "National and Commercial Space Programs"
number: "30302"
heading: "Quality assurance personnel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/51/30302"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Chapter 303 — Contracting and Procurement"
---

# §30302. Quality assurance personnel

- (a) **Exclusion of Administration Personnel.—** A person providing articles to the [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) under a contract entered into after December 9, 1991, may not exclude [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) quality assurance personnel from work sites except as provided in a contract provision that has been submitted to Congress as provided in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Contract Provisions.—** The [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) shall not enter into any contract which permits the exclusion of [Administration](/usc/51/10101.md?p=1) quality assurance personnel from work sites unless the [Administrator](/usc/51/10101.md?p=2) has submitted a copy of the provision permitting such exclusion to Congress at least 60 days before entering into the contract.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3363.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 30302 | 42 U.S.C. 2459e. | Pub. L. 102–195, § 19, Dec. 9, 1991, 105 Stat. 1615. |

In subsection (a), the date “December 9, 1991” is substituted for “the date of enactment of this Act” to reflect the date of enactment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992 (Public Law 102–195, 105 Stat. 1605).

In subsection (a), the words “that has been submitted to Congress as provided” are substituted for “described” for clarity.