Pub. L. 104-61, tit. VIII, sec. 8046

Sec. 8046. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act are available to establish a new FFRDC, either as a new entity, or as a separate entity administered by an organization managing another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership corporation consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and other nonprofit entities. (b) Limitation on Compensation.—No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, and no paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, may be compensated for his or her services as a member of such entity, or as a paid consultant, except under the same conditions, and to the same extent, as members of the Defense Science Board: Provided, That a member of any such entity referred to previously in this subsection shall be allowed travel expenses and per diem as authorized under the Federal Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the performance of membership duties. 109 STAT. 661 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds available to the Department of Defense from any source during fiscal year 1996 may be used by a defense FFRDC, through a fee or other payment mechanism, for charitable contributions, for construction of new buildings, for payment of cost sharing for projects funded by government grants, or for absorption of contract overruns. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amounts available to the Department of Defense during fiscal year 1996, not more than $1,162,650,000 may be obligated for financing activities of defense FFRDCs: Provided, That the total amounts appropriated in titles II, III, and IV of this Act are hereby reduced by $90,000,000 to reflect the funding ceiling contained in this subsection.