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# 42 U.S.C. § 2040 - Fellowship program of Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; selection of fellowships

## Text

To assist the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards in carrying out its function, the committee shall establish a fellowship program under which persons having appropriate engineering or scientific expertise are assigned particular tasks relating to the functions of the committee. Such fellowship shall be for 2-year periods and the recipients of such fellowships shall be selected pursuant to such criteria as may be established by the committee.

(Pub. L. 95–209, § 6, Dec. 13, 1977, 91 Stat. 1483.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.