PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3089 reduce the length of time required to consiunmate cooperative research and development agreements. (d) FACILITIES SUPPORT FOR MULTIPROGRAM ENERGY LABORA- TORIES.— (1) FACILITY POLICY. —The Secretary shall develop and implement a least cost strategy for correcting facility problems, closing unneeded facilities, making facility modifications, and building new facilities at multiprogram energy laboratories. (2) FACILITY PLAN. —Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Congress a comprehensive plan for conducting future facility maintenance, making repairs, modifications, and new additions, and constructing new facilities at multipro^am ener^ laboratories. Such plan shall provide for facilities work in accordance with the following priorities, listed in descending order of priority: (A) Providing for the safety and health of employees, visitors, and the general public with regard to correcting existing structural, mechanical, electrical, and environmental deficiencies. (B) Providing for the repair and rehabilitation of existing facilities to keep them in use and prevent deterioration. (C) Providing engineering design and construction services for those facilities which require modification or additions in order to meet the needs of new or expanded programs. Such plan shall include plans for new facilities and facility modifications which will be required to meet the Department of Energy's changing missions of the twenty-first century, including schedules and estimates for implementation, and including a section outlining long-term funding requirements consistent with anticipated budgets and annual authorization of appropriations. Such plan shall address the coordination of modernization and consolidation of facilities in order to meet changing mission requirements, and shall provide for annual reports to Congress on accomplishments, conformance to schedules, commitments, and expenditures. (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for Supporting Research and Technical Analysis, including Basic Energy Sciences, Energy Research Analysis, University and Science Education, Technology Transfer, Advisory and Oversight Program Direction, and Facilities Support for Multiprogram Energy Laboratories, $966,804,000 for fiscal year 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1994. SEC. 2204. MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM. 42 USC 13504. (a) PROGRAM. — The Secretary shall enter into contracts with Contracts, existing qualified entities to conduct science and mathematics education programs that supplement the Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgroimds carried out by the Secretary of Education under sections 417A through 417F of Public Law 89- 329, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1070d through 1070d-ld). (b) PURPOSE. —(1) The purpose of the programs shall be to provide support to Federal, Stote, and private programs designed to promote the participation of low-income and first generation college students as defined in section 417A of Public Law 89- 59-194 O—93 12:QL3(Pt. 4)
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