3.__Action plan goals.__Identify the goals in the action plan developed by the office pursuant to section 13106 that will be advanced by the recipient's research and development activity.

Article 2

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS

§13109.__Maine Research and Development Evaluation Fund

1.__Fund established.__The Maine Research and Development Evaluation Fund, referred to in this section as "the fund," is established as a nonlapsing Other Special Revenue Funds account administered by the office for the purposes of funding the comprehensive research and development evaluation required pursuant to section 13108.

2.__Definition.__For the purposes of this section, "research and development" means activities that directly or through capital investment support basic and applied scientific research and related commercial development funded by state appropriations and bond proceeds.

3.__Fund sources.__The fund receives money deposited by the Treasurer of State pursuant to this section and any other gift, grant or other source of revenue deposited for that use.

4.__Transfers to fund.__Notwithstanding section 1585 or any other provision of law, the State Budget Officer may transfer to the fund an amount not to exceed 0.8% of General Fund appropriations received by and general obligation bonds issued to an agency or entity for research and development efforts.__ Private entities that receive funds from general obligation bonds for research and development efforts shall pay to the Treasurer of State in the fiscal year in which the general obligation bond was issued an amount not to exceed 0.8% of the proceeds from the bond issue in any fiscal year, which payment must be made from available resources other than bond proceeds.__Only those programs that receive $500,000 or more in research and development appropriations in any fiscal year, or those entities that receive funds from a general obligation bond issue of $500,000 or more for research and development efforts in any fiscal year, as identified and certified by the State Budget Officer and the Office of Fiscal and Program Review, may be