The phrase "upon proposal by" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation in which someone has suggested a plan or idea and it has been accepted. For example: "The committee accepted the proposal upon proposal by the marketing department."
This week, the labor board's Brooklyn office is accusing Cablevision of engaging in bad-faith bargaining by failing to provide union negotiators with needed information, by retracting previously agreed-upon proposals and by refusing to meet on a regular basis.
Japan's present tax system, developed in the early 1950s, is primarily based upon proposals made by a commission headed by American economist Carl S. Shoup.
It also provides a forum for the presentation of U.S., corporate or, perhaps, personal positions and the opportunity to comment upon proposals submitted by others.
Barwise's analysis builds upon an informal proposal by Harman (1977).
According to Major General Courtney Whitney, MacArthur did at one point consider a plan to use radioactive wastes to seal off North Korea, based upon a 1950 proposal by Louis Johnson, but never submitted this to the Joint Chiefs.
Still, it should be noticed that some scoring systems (i.e., Swiss Diabetes Association) include variables (i.e., familial history) for which the scores were not based upon statistical analysis but on an "educated" proposal by the authors (7).
The formation of isoprene upon thermal decomposition of these materials led to the proposal by the German chemist Otto Wallach in 1887 that they are built up from isoprene units.
Two Dow officials, Bryan Stuart and Bruce Houtman, closed their proposal by saying that "implementation will begin immediately upon receipt of approval" from Helliker.
The modern standard model for Type Ia supernovae explosions is founded on a proposal by Whelan and Iben in 1973, and is based upon a mass-transfer scenario to a degenerate companion star.
