20 USC § 9520 - Competitive awards

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title: "20 USC § 9520 - Competitive awards"
title_number: 20
title_name: "EDUCATION"
section_number: "9520"
section_name: "Competitive awards"
chapter_number: 76
chapter_name: "EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, EVALUATION, INFORMATION, AND DISSEMINATION"
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subchapter_name: "EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 120, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1953.)"
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# § 9520. Competitive awards

Activities carried out under this Act through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, at a minimum, shall be awarded on a competitive basis and, when practicable, through a process of peer review.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 120, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1953.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means , , , which enacted this chapter and , amended sections 1232j, 3412, 3461, 6194, 6311, 6312, 7013, 7451, 7703, 7909, 9007, 9010, 9011, 9573, 9623, and 9624 and former sections 6317, 6491, 6932, 7253c, 7283b, and 7283d of this title and , Government Organization and Employees, transferred sections 9010 and 9011 of this title to sections 9621 and 9622 of this title, respectively, repealed sections 3419, 6011, 6021, 6031, 6041, 6051, 6053 to 6053e, 6054 to 6054b, 6055 to 6055h, 6056, 6056a, 9001 to 9009, and 9012 of this title, enacted provisions set out as notes under section 7703 and 9501 of this title, and repealed provisions set out as notes under sections 1221e and 9001 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.