{"identifier":"/us/usc/t51/s30308","title":51,"num":"\u00a7\u202f30308.","heading":"Cost effectiveness calculations","text":"\u00a7\u202f30308.\nCost effectiveness calculations\n(a)\nDefinitions.\u2014\nIn this section:\n(1)\nCommercial provider.\u2014\nThe term \u201ccommercial provider\u201d means any person providing space transportation services or other space-related activities, the primary control of which is held by persons other than a Federal, State, local, or foreign government.\n(2)\nState.\u2014\nThe term \u201cState\u201d means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.\n(b)\nIn General.\u2014\nExcept as otherwise required by law, in calculating the cost effectiveness of the cost of the Administration engaging in an activity as compared to a commercial provider, the Administrator shall compare the cost of the Administration engaging in the activity using full cost accounting principles with the price the commercial provider will charge for such activity.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t51/s30308.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t51/s30308","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f30308."},{"t":"heading","text":"Cost effectiveness calculations"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t51/s30308/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions.\u2014"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"In this section:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t51/s30308/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Commercial provider.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"The term \u201ccommercial provider\u201d means any person providing space transportation services or other space-related activities, the primary control of which is held by persons other than a Federal, State, local, or foreign government.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t51/s30308/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"heading","text":"State.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"The term \u201cState\u201d means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t51/s30308/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"In General.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"Except as otherwise required by law, in calculating the cost effectiveness of the cost of the Administration engaging in an activity as compared to a commercial provider, the Administrator shall compare the cost of the Administration engaging in the activity using full cost accounting principles with the price the commercial provider will charge for such activity.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}