§ 278.
(b)
Qualifications; recommendations for appointment
The persons appointed as members of the Committee—
(1)
shall be eminent in fields such as business, research, new product development, engineering, labor, education, management consulting, environment, and international relations;
(2)
shall be selected solely on the basis of established records of distinguished service;
(3)
shall not be employees of the Federal Government; and
(4)
shall be so selected as to provide representation of a cross-section of the traditional and emerging United States industries.
The Director is requested, in making appointments of persons as members of the Committee, to give due consideration to any recommendations which may be submitted to the Director by the National Academies, professional societies, business associations, labor associations, and other appropriate organizations.
(c)
Terms of office; eligibility
(1)
The term of office of each member of the Committee, other than the original members, shall be 3 years; except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. Any person who has completed two consecutive full terms of service on the Committee shall thereafter be ineligible for appointment during the one-year period following the expiration of the second such term.
(2)
The original members of the Committee shall be elected to three classes of three members each; one class shall have a term of one year, one a term of two years, and the other a term of three years.
(h)
Annual and other reports to Secretary and Congress
(1)
The Committee shall render an annual report to the Secretary for submission to the Congress not later than 30 days after the submittal to Congress of the President’s annual budget request in each year. Such report shall deal essentially, though not necessarily exclusively, with policy issues or matters which affect the Institute or with which the Committee in its official role as the private sector policy advisor of the Institute is concerned. Each such report shall identify areas of research and research techniques of the Institute of potential importance to the long-term competitiveness of United States industry, in which the Institute possesses special competence, which could be used to assist United States enterprises and United States industrial joint research and development ventures.
(2)
The Committee shall render to the Secretary and the Congress such additional reports on specific policy matters as it deems appropriate.
([Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 10], [31 Stat. 1450]; [Pub. L. 100–418, title V], §§ 5115(a)(1), 5131(b), Aug. 23, 1988, [102 Stat. 1433], 1441; [Pub. L. 104–113, § 8(1)], Mar. 7, 1996, [110 Stat. 779]; [Pub. L. 110–69, title III], §§ 3005, 3006, Aug. 9, 2007, [121 Stat. 590]; [Pub. L. 114–329, title II], §§ 204(a)(1)(B)(ii), 205(a)(2)(C), title IV, § 404, Jan. 6, 2017, [130 Stat. 2998], 3001, 3023.)