EPSCoR Research and Competitiveness Act of 2007

A bill to enhance scientific research and competitiveness through the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, and for other purposes.

3/2/2007--Introduced.
EPSCoR Research and Competitiveness Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012 to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Requires the Director of the NSF:
(1) in the administration of the NSF's research infrastructure improvement grant program, to authorize states participating in the grant program to include partnership with out-of-state research institutions if the amount of funding transferred to another state does not exceed 5% of the amount of the grant in any fiscal year; and
(2) from the amounts appropriated pursuant to this Act, to make available specified amounts for FY2008-FY2012 to such grant program. Requires the Director to obligate and spend not less than 20% of the amount available for EPSCoR on co-funding projects that are ranked by a peer-review process in the top 20% of all proposals submitted in response to an announced competition. Requires the submission of annual reports providing information concerning:
(1) co-funded projects on a state-by-state basis; and
(2) the amount and use of co-funding by each of the NSF's directorates. Requires the Director:
(1) through the Office of Cyber Infrastructure, to develop and publish a plan enabling states participating in EPSCoR to develop partnerships and participate fully in the NSF's Cyber Infrastructure Initiative; and
(2) through the Office of Major Research Instrumentation, to develop and publish a plan enabling states participating in EPSCoR to develop partnerships and participate fully in the NSF's major research instrumentation program.

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Sponsor

• Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV]
• and 7 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT]
  • Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS]
  • Sen. Charles Hagel [R, NE]
  • Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
  • Sen. John Reed [D, RI]
  • Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS]
  • Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME]
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Committees

• Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.753

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March 02, 2007

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• Mar 02, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
• Mar 02, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2562)
• Introduced on Mar 02, 2007.
• Mar 02, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2562)

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November 19, 2008 Schnipsel | Enzyklopädie der Kritischen Masse

(S. 753). Oder so. 1. Zukunft Denken - Nach den Utopien, Sonderheft Merkur, hrsg. von Karl-Heinz Bohrer und Kurt Scheel, Stuttgart 2001. Bei der Gelegenheit will ich eine Vermisstenmeldung aufgeben. Wo ist der Mehrzweckbeutel geblieben. ...

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Während des schicksalhaften Jahres 1917 in Rußland lernten die Massen … ihre Lektionen aus den Ereignissen, und sie veränderten sich beinahe von Tag zu Tag” (S. 753). Unübersehbar ist, wie hier die ‘indischen Erfahrungen’ Ne

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July 23, 2008 Freiheitsrecht in der mittelalterlichen Stadt des HRR ...

Im PIERER (Bd. 6, S. 753) wird die "Sächsische Frist" genau so wie im MEYER erläutert: Sie "kommt von der alten dreimaligen Vorladung her, von denen eine jede den Zeitraum von 14 Nächten in sich faßte; sie besteht aus 6 Wochen u.

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