[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4414 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4414

To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies 
 to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific 
                       and engineering research.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2000

Mr. Ehlers (for himself and Mr. Sensenbrenner) introduced the following 
          bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies 
 to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific 
                       and engineering research.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.

    Section 12(b) of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 (15 U.S.C. 205j-
1(b)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(b) Guidelines established under subsection (a) shall require 
that any transaction between the Federal agency and another person 
providing for such person to perform scientific or engineering research 
with Federal funding include provisions--
            ``(1) clearly identifying the extent to which the metric 
        system of measurement or other systems of measurement will be 
        used under the transaction;
            ``(2) requiring the usage of systems of measurement 
        consistent with the provisions described in paragraph (1); and
            ``(3) assigning to the person receiving Federal funding the 
        financial responsibility for failure to follow the requirements 
        stated in paragraph (2).''.
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