# § 16356. Report on equal employment opportunity practices
Not later than 12 months after August 8, 2005, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on the equal employment opportunity practices at National Laboratories. Such report shall include—
**(1)** a thorough review of each National Laboratory contractor’s equal employment opportunity policies, including promotion to management and professional positions and pay raises;
**(2)** a statistical report on complaints and their disposition in the National Laboratories;
**(3)** a description of how equal employment opportunity practices at the National Laboratories are treated in the contract and in calculating award fees for each contractor;
**(4)** a summary of disciplinary actions and their disposition by either the Department or the relevant contractors for each National Laboratory;
**(5)** a summary of outreach efforts to attract women and minorities to the National Laboratories;
**(6)** a summary of efforts to retain women and minorities in the National Laboratories; and
**(7)** a summary of collaboration efforts with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to improve equal employment opportunity practices at the National Laboratories.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 992, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 913.)