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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part I · Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs

§ 16362. Barrow Geophysical Research Facility

Statutory text

(a)

Establishment

The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall establish a joint research facility in Barrow, Alaska, to be known as the “Barrow Geophysical Research Facility”, to support scientific research activities in the Arctic.

(b)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretaries of Commerce, Energy, and the Interior, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the planning, design, construction, and support of the Barrow Geophysical Research Facility, $61,000,000.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act of 2005

    Pub. L. 109–58 title IX § 998 · 119 Stat. 594

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 16362

    (Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 998, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 916.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 998, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 916.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 998. BARROW GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH FACILITY. (a) Establishment.— The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall establish a joint research facility in Barrow, Alaska, to be known as the “Barrow Geophysical Research Facility”, to support scientific research activities in the Arctic. (b) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretaries of Commerce, Energy, and the Interior, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the planning, design, construction, and support of the Barrow Geophysical Research Facility, $61,000,000.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 109–58, title IX, § 998, , 119 Stat. 916.)

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