REPORT ON SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM.

SEC. 9003. REPORT ON SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PROGRAM. Section 6 of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (15 U.S.C. 638, note) is amended— 102 STAT. 3809 (1) by striking out the last sentence of subsection (a), as added by section 8008 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–418), and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(c) Not later than July 1, 1989, the Comptroller General shall transmit to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate recommendations as to the advisability of amending the Small Business Innovation Research program to— “(1) increase each agency’s share of research and development expenditures devoted to it by 0.25 percent per year, until it is 3 percent of the total extramural research and development funds and targeting a portion of the increment at products with commercialization or export potential; “(2) make the Small Business Innovation Research program permanent with a formal congressional review every 10 years, beginning in 1993; “(3) allocate a modest but appropriate share of each agency’s Small Business Innovation Research fund for administrative purposes for effective management, quality maintenance, and the elimination of program delays; and “(4) include within the Small Business Innovation and Research program all agencies expending between $20,000,000 and $100,000,000 in extramural research and development funds annually.”.