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# 42 U.S.C. § 16355 - National Laboratory designation

## Text

After August 8, 2005, the Secretary shall not designate a facility that is not listed in section 15801(3) of this title as a National Laboratory.

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 991, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 913.)