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14. INVENTIONS, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. A. Reporting Procedure. If any project produces patentable items, patent rights, processes, or inventions in the course of work under a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) grant or agreement, the CONTRACTOR shall report the fact promptly and fully to the CITY. The CITY shall report the fact to the Grant Officer, at the DOL. Unless there is a prior agreement between the CITY and the DOL and its representative on these matters, the DOL shall determine whether to seek protection on the invention or discovery. The DOL and its representative shall determine how the rightsin the invention or discovery, including rights under any patent issued thereon, will be allocated and administered in order to protect the public interest consistent with the "Governmental Patent Policy" (President's Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, August 23, 1971, and Statement of Government Patent Policy as printed in 36 FR 16889). B. Copyright Policy. 1. Unless otherwise provided in the terms of the grant or agreement, when copyright- able material is developed in the course of or under a DOL Grant or agreement, the author and the CITY which developed the work is free to copyright material or to permit others to do so. The CONTRACTOR and the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) shall have a royalty-free, nonexclusive and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, use and to authorize others to use all copyrighted material. 2. The DOL reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish or otherwise use, and to authorize others to use, for Federal Government purposes: (a) The copyright in any work developed under any grant, sub-grant, or contract under a grant or subgrant; (b) Any right of copyright to which a grantee, subgrantee or a CONTRACTOR purchases ownership with grant support; and (c) CONTRACTOR shall comply with the requirements of 29 CFR Part 97.34. C. Rights to Data. The DOL and the CITY shall have unlimited rights to any data first procured or delivered under this Agreement. 15. CLEAN AIR / CLEAN WATER ACT. If the grant hereunder exceeds $100,000, CONTRACTOR must comply with Section 306 of the Clean Air Act [(42 USC 1875(h)]; Section 508 of the Clean Water Act (33 USC 1368); Executive Order 11738 and Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") regulations (40 CFR Part 15) as any may now exist or be hereafter amended. Under these laws and regulations, the CONTRACTOR assures that: (a) No facility to be utilized in the performance of the proposed grant has been listed on the EPA List of Violating Facilities; (b) It will notify CITY prior to award of the receipt of any communication from the Director, Office of Federal Activities, U.S. EPA, indicating that a facility to be utilized for the grant is under consideration to be listed on the EPA List of Violating Facilities; (c) It will notify the CITY and the EPA about any known violation of the above laws and regulations. C. CONTRACTOR agrees to adhere to the following STANDARDS OF CONDUCT: 25E-10 Page 8 of 15