[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 15CFR1180.2]



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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE

 

      CHAPTER XI--TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

PART 1180_TRANSFER BY FEDERAL AGENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND 

ENGINEERING INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE

--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 1180.2  Definitions.



    Agency means a federal agency as that term is defined in Section 4 

of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, as amended 

(15 U.S.C. 3703(8));

    Director means the Director of the National Technical Information 

Service.

    Federally funded refers to STEI which results from federal research 

and development activities funded in whole or in part with federal 

funds, whether performed by the agency itself or by contractors, 

grantees, cooperative research partners, joint venture partners, or 

under any similar arrangement involving federal funds.

    Final when used to describe an STEI product means a product that the 

originating agency or contractor/grantee



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thereof intends for public dissemination and may exclude interim status 

reports routinely furnished to agencies by contractors and grantees for 

monitoring and other internal purposes and which are not intended for 

public dissemination.

    Product includes, but is not limited to, any report, manual, 

standard, specification, book, paper, chart, map, graph, data 

collection, data file, data compilation, software, audio/video 

production, technology application assessment generated pursuant to 

Section 11(c) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 

(15 U.S.C. 3710(c)), as well as materials pertaining to training 

technology and other federally owned or originated technologies, and 

applies to items produced in-house or outside the agency through the 

Government Printing Office, its contractors, Federal Prison Industries 

or any other producer, provided that such material is intended by the 

agency for public dissemination.

    Scientific, technical and engineering information means--

    (1) Basic and applied research that results from the efforts of 

scientists and engineers in any medium (including new theory and 

information obtained from experimentation, observation, instrumentation 

or computation in the form of text, numeric data or images), and

    (2) Information that bears on business and industry generally, such 

as economic information, market information and related information, if 

the agency determines such information would be of value to consumers of 

the information described in paragraph (1) of this definition.

    Summary means information relating to an ongoing research project 

likely to result in a final product.