51 USC § 30302 - Quality assurance personnel

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title: "51 USC § 30302 - Quality assurance personnel"
title_number: 51
title_name: "NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS"
section_number: "30302"
section_name: "Quality assurance personnel"
chapter_number: 303
chapter_name: "CONTRACTING AND PROCUREMENT"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3363.)"
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# § 30302. Quality assurance personnel

**(a)** **Exclusion of Administration Personnel.—** A person providing articles to the Administration under a contract entered into after December 9, 1991, may not exclude Administration quality assurance personnel from work sites except as provided in a contract provision that has been submitted to Congress as provided in subsection (b).

**(b)** **Contract Provisions.—** The Administration shall not enter into any contract which permits the exclusion of Administration quality assurance personnel from work sites unless the Administrator has submitted a copy of the provision permitting such exclusion to Congress at least 60 days before entering into the contract.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3363.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 30302 | 42 U.S.C. 2459e. | Pub. L. 102–195, § 19, Dec. 9, 1991, 105 Stat. 1615. |

In subsection (a), the date “” is substituted for “the date of enactment of this Act” to reflect the date of enactment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992 (, ).

In subsection (a), the words “that has been submitted to Congress as provided” are substituted for “described” for clarity.