Energy Management

DOE/Martin Marietta Royalty-Sharing Agreement Gao ID: RCED-88-194 August 12, 1988

In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed an agreement between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the operator of two of its facilities to determine whether the agreement violated a legislative restriction against DOE augmentation of its appropriation.

GAO found that: (1) the contractor's deposit of royalties into an account which it controlled was not an improper augmentation of the DOE appropriation; (2) the contractor could also use the royalties to carry out technology transfer activities authorized under the agreement without improperly augmenting the DOE appropriation; (3) DOE decided to continue depositing reimbursements of DOE patent costs into the Treasury; and (4) DOE had not decided whether it would use the reimbursements for patent and licensing costs of waived inventions for the contractor to cover other contract activities or deposit them into the Treasury.

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