Volume 75 · 216
Public Law 87–98
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for salaries and expenses, research and development, construction of facilities, and for other purposes.
Approved July 21, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for salaries and expenses, research and development, construction of facilities, 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 is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the fiscal year 1962 the sum of $1,784,300,000, as follows:
For “Salaries and expenses”, $226,686,000.
For “Research and development”, $1,305,539,000.
For “Construction of facilities”, $252,075,000, as follows:
Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, $3,980,000.
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, $5,680,000.
Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, $3,590,000.
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, $9,212,000.
Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia, $6,313,000.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, $3,642,000.
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, $12,891,000.
Atlantic Missile Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida, $49,583,000.
Pacific Missile Range, Point Arguello, California, $998,000.
At various locations, including those specified in subsection 1(c)(1)-1(c)(9), and including land acquisitions therefor, $146,186,000.
Facility planning and design not otherwise provided for, $10,000,000.
Appropriations for “Research and development” may be used (i) for any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of land) which may be required for the performance of research and development contracts, and (ii) for grants to nonprofit institutions of higher education, or to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is the conduct of scientific research, for purchase or construction of additional research facilities; and title to such facilities shall be vested in the United States unless the Administrator determines that the national program of aeronautical and space activities will best be served by vesting title in any such grantee institution or organization. Each such grant shall be made under such conditions as the Administrator shall determine to be required to insure that the United States will receive therefrom benefit adequate to justify the making of that grant. 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 of facilities” may remain available without fiscal year limitation.
Appropriations other than “Construction of facilities” may be
Scientific consultations, expenses.
used, but not to exceed $20,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses upon the approval or authority of the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government.
The amount included for personnel security investigations in
Personnel security investigations.
the sum authorized by section 1(a) in the discretion of the Administrator may be increased by not more than $2,000,000, but the aggregate sum provided by section 1(a) for salaries and expenses may not be exceeded by reason of any such increase.
Sec. 2.
Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts prescribed in subparagraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), or (11) of subsection 1(c) 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 $252,075,000.
Sec. 3.
Not to exceed 3 per centum of the funds appropriated pursuant
Construction of laboratories, etc.
to subsections 1(a) and 1(b) hereof may be transferred to the “Construction of facilities” appropriation, and, when so transferred, together with $30,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 1(c) hereof, shall be available for expenditure to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations at any location (including locations specified in subsection 1(c)), if (1) the Administrator determines such action to be necessary because of changes in the national program of aeronautical and space activities or new scientific or engineering developments, and (2) he determines that deferral of such action until the enactment of the next authorization Act would be inconsistent with the interest of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities. The funds so made available may be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. No portion of
Report to Committees of Congress.
such sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations until the Administrator or his designee has transmitted to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning (1) the nature of such construction, expansion, or modification, (2) the cost thereof, including the cost of any real estate action pertaining thereto, and (3) the reason why such construction, expansion, or modification is necessary in the national interest. No such funds may be used for any construction, expansion, or modification if authorization for such construction, expansion, or modification previously has been denied by the Congress.
Sec. 4.
The Administrator is hereby authorized to transfer, with
Transfers to other agencies.
the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, funds appropriated pursuant to this Act, to any other agency of the Government whenever the Administrator determines such transfer necessary for the efficient accomplishment of the objectives for which the funds have been appropriated. Not more than $20,000,000 of the funds authorized by
Report to Committees of Congress.
this Act may be transferred by the Administrator under this section, and no transfer in excess of $250,000 shall be made under this section unless the Administrator has transmitted to the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate and to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives a “written statement concerning the amount and purpose of, and the reason for, such transfer, and (1) each such committee has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to that transfer, or (2) thirty days have passed after the transmittal by the Administrator of such statement to those committees.
Approved July 21, 1961, 12:00 a.m.