Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 2.djvu/655

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PUBLIC LAW 102-195—DEC. 9, 1991 105 STAT. 1607 (t)) $3,000,000 is authorized for a pilot study and prototype demonstration to convert remotely-sensed aircraft and satellite data into machine readable form for global change research; and (E) $2,000,000 is authorized for converting Landsat data collected prior to the date of enactment of this Act into a more durable archive medium. (7) Materials processing in space, $120,800,000. (8) Communications, $39,400,000. (9) Information systems, $42,000,000. (10) Technology utilization, $32,000,000. (11) Commercial use of space, $107,000,000. (12) Aeronautical research and technology, $591,200,000. ' (13) Transatmospheric research and technology, $72,000,000. (14) Space research and technology, $324,800,000, of which $10,000,000 is authorized for a solar dynamics power research and technology development program, including a ground test of the technology, and $10,000,000 for a program of component technology development, validation, and demonstration directed at commercial launch competitiveness. (15) Exploration activities, $34,500,000. (16) Safety, reliability, and quality assurance, $33,600,000. (17) Tracking and data advanced systems, $22,000,000. (18) Academic programs, $64,600,000. (b) SPACE FLIGHT, CONTROL, AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to become available October 1, 1991, for "Space flight, control, and data communications", for the following programs: (1) Space shuttle production and operational capability, $1,328,900,000, of which $375,000,000 is authorized for the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor program. (2) Space shuttle operations, $2,970,600,000. (3) Launch services, $291,900,000, amounts of which may be expended for the Mobile Satellite launch if— (A) the Administrator, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, determines that uncertainties with respect to the status of the American Mobile Satellite Corporation as the sole Federal Communications Commission license holder for mobile satellite services have been resolved; and (B) at least 30 days prior to the obligation of any funds for Reports, the Mobile Satellite launch, the Administrator submits to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a report detailing plans for reimbursement to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for its portion of launch costs of the Mobile Satellite. (4) Space and ground network, communications, and data systems, $920,900,000. (c) CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES. —T here is authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to become available October 1, 1991, for "Construction of facilities", including land acquisition, as follows: (1) Construction of Space Station Processing Facility, Kennedy Space Center, $35,000,000.