{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1862s.","heading":"Reaffirmation of merit-based peer review","text":"\u00a7\u202f1862s.\nReaffirmation of merit-based peer review\n(a)\nSense of Congress\nIt is the sense of Congress that\u2014\n(1) sustained, predictable Federal funding of basic research is essential to United States leadership in science and technology;\n(2) the Foundation\u2019s intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria are appropriate for evaluating grant proposals, as concluded by the 2011 National Science Board Task Force on Merit Review;\n(3) evaluating proposals on the basis of the Foundation\u2019s intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria should be used to assure that the Foundation\u2019s activities are in the national interest as these reviews can affirm that\u2014\n(A) the proposals funded by the Foundation are of high quality and advance scientific knowledge; and\n(B) the Foundation\u2019s grants address societal needs through basic research findings or through related activities; and\n(4) as evidenced by the Foundation\u2019s contributions to scientific advancement, economic growth, human health, and national security, its peer review and merit review processes have identified and funded scientifically and societally relevant basic research and should be preserved.\n(b)\nMerit review criteria\nThe Foundation shall maintain the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria, among other specific criteria as appropriate, as the basis for evaluating grant proposals in the merit review process.\n(c)\nUpdates\nIf after\nJanuary 6, 2017","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s1862s.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1862s."},{"t":"heading","text":"Reaffirmation of merit-based peer review"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Sense of Congress"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"It is the sense of Congress that\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" sustained, predictable Federal funding of basic research is essential to United States leadership in science and technology;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" the Foundation\u2019s intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria are appropriate for evaluating grant proposals, as concluded by the 2011 National Science Board Task Force on Merit Review;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" evaluating proposals on the basis of the Foundation\u2019s intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria should be used to assure that the Foundation\u2019s activities are in the national interest as these reviews can affirm that\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/3/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" the proposals funded by the Foundation are of high quality and advance scientific knowledge; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/3/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" the Foundation\u2019s grants address societal needs through basic research findings or through related activities; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/a/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" as evidenced by the Foundation\u2019s contributions to scientific advancement, economic growth, human health, and national security, its peer review and merit review processes have identified and funded scientifically and societally relevant basic research and should be preserved.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Merit review criteria"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The Foundation shall maintain the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria, among other specific criteria as appropriate, as the basis for evaluating grant proposals in the merit review process.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s1862s/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Updates"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"If after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"January 6, 2017","tail":", a change is made to the merit-review process, the Director shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress not later than 30 days after the date of the change."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}