106 STAT. 3126 PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 (b) REPORT. —The President shall, not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, transmit to the Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection (a), together with his recommendations based on the study. (c) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. — The President, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, shall establish a plan to implement the recommendations contained in the study conducted under subsection (a) and shall, not later than 90 days after transmitting the report to the Congress under subsection (b), transmit to the Congress that implementation plan. (d) DEFINITION. —As used in this section, the term "State" includes the District of Columbia and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States. TITLE XXX—MISCELLANEOUS Subtitle A—General Provisions 42 USC 13541. SEC. 3001. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, AND COMMERCIAL APPLICATION ACTIVITIES. (a) RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION.—(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act may be carried out under the procedures of the Federal Nonnuclear Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5901-5920), the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), or any other Act under which the Secretary is authorized to carry out such activities, but only to the extent the Secretary is authorized to carry out such activities under each such Act. An objective of any demonstration program under this Act shall be to determine the technical and commercial feasibility of energy technologies. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, in carrying out research,^ development, and demonstration programs and activities under this Act, the Secretary may use, to the extent authorized under applicable provisions of law, contracts, cooperative agreements, cooperative research and development agreements under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, grants, joint ventures, and any other form of agreement available to the Secretary. (b) COMMERCIAL APPLICATION. — Except as otherwise provided in this Act, in carrying out commercial application programs and commercial application activities under this Act, the Secretary may use, to the extent authorized under applicable provisions of law, contracts, cooperative agreements, cooperative research and development agreements under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, grants, joint ventures, and any other form of agreement available to the Secretary. An objective of any commercial application program under this Act shall be to accelerate the transition of technologies from the research and development stage. (c) DEFINITION. —For purposes of this section, the term "joint venture" has the meaning given the term "joint research and devel- ^ment venture" under section 2(a)(6) and (b) of the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984 (15 U.S.C. 4301(a)(6) and (b)), except that such term may apply under this section to research, development, demonstration, and commercial application joint ventiures.
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