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title: "41 U.S.C. § 4708"
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# 41 U.S.C. § 4708 - Payment of reimbursable indirect costs in cost-type research and development contracts with educational institutions

## Text

A cost-type research and development contract (including a grant) with a university, college, or other educational institution may provide for payment of reimbursable indirect costs on the basis of predetermined fixed-percentage rates applied to the total of the reimbursable direct costs incurred or to an element of the total of the reimbursable direct costs incurred.

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3799.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 470841:254a.Pub. L. 87–638, Sept. 5, 1962, 76 Stat. 437. The words “On and after September 5, 1962” are omitted as obsolete.