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# 42 U.S.C. § 18384 - Decadal results

## Text

NASA shall take into account the current decadal surveys from the National Academies’ Space Studies Board when submitting the President’s budget request to the Congress.

(Pub. L. 111–267, title VIII, § 805, Oct. 11, 2010, 124 Stat. 2833.)