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Public Law 86–45
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for salaries and expenses, research and development, construction and equipment, and for other purposes.
Approved June 15, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for salaries and expenses, research and development, construction and equipment, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the fiscal year 1960 the sum of $485,300,000, as follows:
For “Salaries and expenses,” $94,430,000.
For “Research and development,” $333,070,000.
For “Construction and equipment,” $57,800,000, as follows:
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia: Alterations to thermal structures tunnel; analytical computing equipment; conversion of gust tunnel to noise research laboratory; conversion of test cells to noise test facility; and heater and vacuum system for gas dynamics laboratory, $4,580,000.
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California: Data reduction center and mass transfer cooling and aerodynamics facility, $6,555,000.
Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio: Ion and plasma jet facility; zero-power reactor; in-pile loop; and approximately twenty-five acres of land, $6,860,000.
Highspeed flight station, Edwards, California: Building additions; analog computing equipment; and terminal guidance facility, $2,805,000.
Beltsville Space Center, Beltsville, Maryland: Central flight control and range operations building; space sciences laboratory; instrument construction and installation laboratory; and utility installations, $14,000,000.
Pacific Missile Range, Point Arguello, California: Launching facilities, including flight vehicle assembly and checkout facility with equipment for special experiments, $3,000,000.
Various locations: Global range tracking and communication facilities and equipment; facilities for Rover program; and propulsion
Notification to Congress.
development facilities, $20,000,000: Provided, That the Administrator shall notify the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of the site selections before any such facilities are hereafter established.
Appropriations for “Research and development” may be used for any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of land) which may be required for the performance of research and
Restriction.
development contracts: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated for “Research and development” pursuant to this Act may be used for construction of any major facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $250,000, unless the Administrator or his designee notifies the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of the nature, location, and estimated cost of such facility.
When so specified in an Appropriation Act, any amount appropriated for “Research and development” and for “Construction and equipment” may remain available without fiscal year limitation.
Sec. 2.
Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts
Variation of amounts.
prescribed in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), or (G) of subsection (a)(3) may, in the discretion of the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, be varied upward 5 per centum to meet unusual cost variations, but the total cost of all work authorized under such subparagraphs shall not exceed a total of $53,050,000.
Sec. 3.
Any amount, not to exceed $5,000,000, of the funds appropriated
Construction of laboratories, etc.
for “Construction and equipment” pursuant to this Act, may be used to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations, if found by the Administrator to be necessary because of changes in the national program of aeronautical and space activities or new scientific or engineering developments and if the Administrator determines that deferral until the next authorization Act would be inconsistent with the interests of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities, and in connection therewith to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and
Notification to Congress.
equipment: Provided, That upon reaching a final decision to implement, the Administrator or his designee shall notify the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of the cost of such construction, expansion, or modification including those real estate actions pertaining thereto: Provided further, That no such funds shall be used for such construction, expansion, or modification if authorization for such construction, expansion, or modification has been previously denied by the Congress; and additional appropriations are hereby authorized for purposes of this section in the amount of $5,000,000.
Sec. 4.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no appropriation
Legislative authorizations.
may be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unless previously authorized by legislation hereafter enacted by the Congress.
Approved June 15, 1959.