An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 109-227 to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide to the House Science Committee and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation a 3-year programmatic and operational plan for the MEP; and to require the plan to include comments of the MEP National Advisory Board and of the State partners.

1. Inserts new text at the end of section 5

   Inserts

   Inserted: (d) Programmatic and Operational Plan.--Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall transmit to the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a 3-year programmatic and operational plan for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program under sections 25 and 26 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k and 278l). The plan shall include comments on the plan from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership State partners and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory Board.

   Original wording

   At the end of section 5, add the following new subsection:

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