---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5874"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5874"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5874"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support"
  - "Subchapter V — Space Trade and Cooperation"
---

# §5874. Definitions


For purposes of this subchapter—

- (1) the term “contractor” means a National Aeronautics and Space Administration contractor to the extent that the acquisition of space hardware, space technology, or space services from the [independent states of the former Soviet Union](/usc/22/5801.md) may be relevant to the contractor’s responsibilities under the contract; and
- (2) the term “designated congressional committees” means the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Committee on [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Relations of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–511, title VI, § 604, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3348.)