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Public Law 90–56
To authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.
Approved July 26, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Sec. 101.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with the provisions of section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended :
For “Operating expenses”, $2,164,843,000.
For “Plant and capital equipment”, including construction, acquisition, or modification of facilities, including land acquisition; and acquisition and fabrication of capital equipment not related to construction, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following:
Special Nuclear Materials.—
Project 68–1–a, hot laboratory, New Brunswick, New Jersey, $1,000,000.
Project 68–1–b, replacement waste storage tanks, Richland, Washington, $2,500,000.
Atomic Weapons.—
Project 68–2–a, new weapons production capabilities, various locations, $100,500,000.
Project 68–2–b, weapons production, development, and test installations, $10,000,000.
Reactor Development.—
Project 68–3–a, research and development test plants, Project Rover, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and Nevada Test Site, Nevada, $2,000,000.
Project 68–3–b, isotopic space systems facility, Sandia Base, New Mexico, $2,250,000.
Project 68–3–c, modifications to reactors, $1,000,000.
Physical Research.—
Project 68–4–a, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $1,095,000.
Project 68–4–b, accelerator improvements, zero gradient synchrotron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $1,900,000.
Project 68–4–c, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $1,740,000.
Project 68–4–d, accelerator improvements, Cambridge and Princeton accelerators, $400,000.
Project 68–4–e, accelerator improvements, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, California, $865,000.
Project 68–4–f, 200 Bev accelerator, Du Page and Kane Counties near Chicago, Illinois, $7,333,000.
Project 68–4–g, laboratory and energy storage facility, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $8,500,000.
Training. Education and Information.—
Project 68–5–a, addition to biomedical building. Rio Piedras. Puerto Rico, $1,400,000.
General Plant Projects.—
$39,175,000.
Capital Equipment.—
Acquisition and fabrication of capital equipment not related to construction, $156,575,000.
Sec. 102. Limitations.—
The Commission is authorized to start any project set forth in subsections 101(b) (1), (2), (3), and (4) only if the currently estimated cost of that project does not exceed by more than 25 per centum the estimated cost set forth for that project.
The Commission is authorized to start the project set forth in subsection 101(b)(5) only if the currently estimated cost of that project does not exceed by more than 10 per centum the estimated cost set forth for that project.
The Commission is authorized to start a project under subsection 101(b) (6) only if it is in accordance with the following:
The maximum currently estimated cost of any project shall be $500,000 and the maximum currently estimated cost of any building included in such project shall be $100,000, provided that the building cost limitation may be exceeded if the Commission determines that it is necessary in the interest of efficiency and economy.
The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 101(b) (6) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that subsection by more than 10 per centum.
Sec. 103.
The Commission is authorized to perform construction
Construction design services.
design services for any Commission construction project whenever (1) such construction project has been included in a proposed authorization bill transmitted to the Congress by the Commission and (2) the Commission determines that the project is of such urgency that construction of the project should be initiated promptly upon enactment of legislation appropriating funds for its construction.
Sec. 104.
When so specified in an appropriation Act, transfers of amounts between “Operating expenses” and “Plant and capital equipment” may be made as provided in such appropriation Act.
Sec. 105.
Cooperative Power Reactor Demonstration Program.—Section 111 of Public Law 85–162, as amended, is further amended by striking out the date “June 30, 1967” in clause (3) of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the date “June 30, 1968”.
Sec. 106. Amendment of Prior Year Acts.—
Section 101 of Public Law 89–32, as amended, is further amended by (1) striking therefrom the figure “$2,604,821,000”, and substituting therefor the figure “$2,655,621,000”; (2) striking from subsection (b) thereof the figure “$344,045,000”, and substituting therefor the figure “$394,845,000”; and (3) striking from subsection (b)(5) thereof “Project 66–5–h, meson physics facility, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico (AE only), $4,200,000”, and substituting therefor “Project 66–5–h, meson physics facility, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $55,000,000”.
Section 101 of Public Law 89–428, as amended, is further amended by (1) striking therefrom the figure “$2,210,658,000”, and substituting therefor the figure “$2,290,658,000”; (2) striking from subsection (b) thereof the figure “$246,530,000”, and substituting therefor the figure “$326,530,000”; (3) striking from subsection (b) (3) thereof “Project 67–3–a, fast flux test facility (AE only), $7,500,000”, and substituting therefor “Project 67–3–a, fast flux test facility, $87,500,000”; and (4) striking from subsection (b) (3) thereof “Project 67–3–b, modifications and addition to S1W reactor facility, National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, $10,000,000”, and substituting therefor “Project 67–3–b, modifications and addition to reactor facilities, West Milton, New York, $10,000,000”.
Sec. 107. Rescissions.—
Public Law 88–72, as amended, is further amended by rescinding therefrom authorization for a project, except for funds heretofore obligated, as follows:
Project 64—e–3, SNAP development and test facilities, Santa Susana, California, $500,000.
Public Law 89–428, as amended, is further amended by rescinding therefrom authorization for a project as follows:
Project 67–3–e, heavy water organic cooled reactor (AE only), $2,000,000.
Approved July 26, 1967, 10:30 p.m.