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PUBLIC LAW 92-84-AUG. 11, 1971
[85 STAT J
Public Law 92-84 August 11, 1971 [H. R. 9388]
Atomic Energy Commission. Appropriation authorization. 77 Stat. 88. 42 USC 2017.
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: (a) For "Operating expenses", $2,029,571,000, of which not less than $31,000,000 shall be available for controlled thermonuclear fusion research and development, and of which not more than $116,400,000 shall be available for operating costs for the high energy physics program category. (b) 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: (1) NUCLEAR MATERIALS.—
Project 72-1-a, electrical system modifications for higher power operation of gaseous diffusion plant, Paducah, Kentucky, $2,000,000. Projeot 72-1-b, cooling water system modifications for higher power operation of gaseous diffusion plant, Paducah, Kentucky, $2,800,000. Project 72-1-c, replacement of direct buried radioactive waste transfer lines, Eichland, Washington, $2,300,000. Project 72-1-d, irradiated fuel storage facility, National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, $2,500,000. Project 72-1-e, improvements in radioactive waste management and supporting facilities, multiple sites, $5,000,000. Project 72-1-f, component preparation laboratories, multiple sites, $3,000,000. Project 72-1-g, facilities for integrated operation of chemical separations plants, Richland, Washington, $1,500,000. Project 72-1-h, air filter for laboratory facilities, Savannah River, South Carolina, $2,500,000. (2) ATOMIC WEAPONS.—
Project 72-2-a, weapons production, development, and test installations, $10,000,000. Project 72-2-b, weapons neutron research facility (AE only), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $585,000. (3) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.—
Advisory Council. Report to Congress.
Project 72-3-a, liquid metal engineering center facility modifications, Santa Susana, California, $1,000,000. Project 72-3-b, national radioactive waste repository, Lyons, Kansas, $3,500,000: Provided, That— (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (E), no funds shall be obligated or expended (i) for the acquisition of a fee simple interest in land or for the acquisition of any other interest in land which exceeds three years from the date of enactment of this Act, or (ii) for or in connection with the burial of radioactive materials at the proposed site other than for experimental purposes, including demonstrations, and then only when and if such materials are fully retrievable throughout such three year period. (B) The President of the United States shall appoint an advisory council which shall be composed of nine members at least three of whom shall be from Kansas. The advisory council may report to the Congress from time to time.
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