# § 7509. Definitions
In this chapter:
**(1)** **Advisory Panel** section 7503 of this title
The term “Advisory Panel” means the President’s National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel established or designated under .
**(2)** **Nanotechnology** The term “nanotechnology” means the science and technology that will enable one to understand, measure, manipulate, and manufacture at the atomic, molecular, and supramolecular levels, aimed at creating materials, devices, and systems with fundamentally new molecular organization, properties, and functions.
**(3)** **Program** section 7501 of this title
The term “Program” means the National Nanotechnology Program established under .
**(4)** **Council** section 7501(c) of this title
The term “Council” means the National Science and Technology Council or an appropriate subgroup designated by the Council under .
**(5)** **Advanced technology user facility** The term “advanced technology user facility” means a nanotechnology research and development facility supported, in whole or in part, by Federal funds that is open to all United States researchers on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis.
**1** **Program component area** section 7501(c)(2) of this title[^1]
The term “program component area” means a major subject area established under under which is grouped related individual projects and activities carried out under the Program.
So in original. Probably should be “are”.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 108–153, § 10, Dec. 3, 2003, 117 Stat. 1931.)