Volume 68 · 143
Public Law 83–371
To promote the national defense by authorizing the construction of aeronautical research facilities by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics necessary to the effective prosecution of aeronautical research.
Approved May 27, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To promote the national defense by authorizing the construction of aeronautical research facilities by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics necessary to the effective prosecution of aeronautical research.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That pursuant to subsection (b) of section 1 of Public Law 672, approved August 8, 1950
(50 U. S. C. 151b), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is authorized to undertake additional construction, and to purchase and install additional equipment at the following locations:
Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia: High-speed hydrodynamic facility, $1,220,000.
Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California: Alterations to two small supersonic tunnels, $349,000.
Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio: Alterations to an existing supersonic tunnel, air dryer for propulsion systems laboratory, air heater for altitude test chambers, and rocket engine research facility, $3,431,000.
Sec. 2.
Any of the approximate costs enumerated in section 1 of this
Costs.
Act may, in the discretion of the Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, be varied upwards 5 per centum to meet unusual cost variations, but the total cost of all work so enumerated shall not exceed $5,000,000.
Sec. 3.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed
Appropriation.
$5,000,000 to accomplish the purposes of this Act.
Approved May 27, 1954.