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§ 3783. Technical data: time for contractors to submit justifications

(a) Additional Time to Submit Justifications.—If a contractor or subcontractor asserting a use or release restriction submits to the contracting officer a written request, showing the need for additional time to comply with the requirement to justify the current validity of the asserted restriction, additional time to adequately permit the submission of such justification shall be provided by the contracting officer as appropriate.

(b) Multiple Challenges; Schedule of Responses.—If a party asserting a restriction receives notices of challenges to restrictions on technical data from more than one contracting officer, and notifies each contracting officer of the existence of more than one challenge, the contracting officer initiating the first in time challenge, after consultation with the party asserting the restriction and the other contracting officers, shall formulate a schedule of responses to each of the challenges that will afford the party asserting the restriction with an equitable opportunity to respond to each such challenge.

(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, §1833(g), (j), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4231, 4232.)


Editorial Notes

Codification

The text of subsec. (e) of section 2321 of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, §1833(j), was based on Pub. L. 98–525, title XII, §1216(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2597; Pub. L. 100–26, §7(a)(5)(A)(i), (B), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 276, 277.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3783, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 218; Pub. L. 86–616, §2(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 387, provided for boards of review, composed of three or more officers, to be convened by Secretary of the Army, at such places as he prescribes, to review records of cases of officers recommended by boards of inquiry for removal from active list of Regular Army, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–513, title II, §213, title VII, §701, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2885, 2955, effective Sept. 15, 1981.

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, §1833(j), transferred subsec. (e) of section 2321 of this title to this section, struck out subsec. (e) designation and heading "Time for Contractors to Submit Justifications" at beginning, and designated first and second sentences of existing provisions as subsecs. (a) and (b), respectively, and inserted headings.


Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section and amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as an Effective Date of 2021 Amendment note preceding section 3001 of this title.

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