United States Science and Technology Board Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] United States Science and Technology Board Act - Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government, the United States Science and Technology Board. States that the purpose of the Board is to consolidate in one governmental unit responsibility for: (1) determining the most critical long-range problems facing the Nation, including but not limited to, the social, economic, environmental and resources areas; (2) evaluating the potential contributions of science and technology to the solution of such long-range problems; (3) measuring the probable scope, intensity, and duration of such problems and establishing time scales and priorities for coping with them; (4) establishing optimum levels of funding of all federally financed nondefense research and development programs in the context of the time scales and priorities established; (5) reviewing and authorizing all federally financed nondefense research and development programs; and (6) insuring the coordination of scientific and technological efforts in the United States and with the scientific and technological efforts of other nations. Sets forth the functions of the Board, including the following…