Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/696

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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 646

Additional authorizations.

Approval.

"Joint resolution."

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 limited and ultimately terminated upon a date or event certain in the future; (D) include a financial or investment strategy prospectus which sets forth the justification for the requested authorization of appropriations; (E) include findings, based upon accompanying comprehensive reports, regarding synthetic fuel projects which received financial assistance prior to submission of such comprehensive strategy to the Congress with respect to— (i) the economic and technological feasibility of each such project including information on product quality, quantity, and cost per unit of production; and (ii) the environmental effects associated with each such project as well as projected environmental effects and water requirements; and (F) include recommendations based upon accompanying comprehensive reports concerning the specific mix of technologies and resource types which the Corporation proposes to support after approval pursuant to subsection (c) of the comprehensive strategy. (4) After the approval of the comprehensive strategy, the Board of Directors may request, pursuant to subsection (c)(10), additional authorizations of appropriations. Such requests shall include a financial or investment prospectus which sets forth the justification for the requested authorizations of appropriations. (c)(1)(A) The comprehensive strategy submitted by the Board of Directors to the Congress pursuant to subsection (b)(2) shall be deemed approved if a joint resolution of approval has been enacted into law during the same Congress in which such comprehensive strategy was submitted to the Congress. If either House of the Congress within ninety calendar days of continuous session after introduction fails to pass such a joint resolution or rejects such a joint resolution, the comprehensive strategy shall be deemed disapproved. For purposes of this subsection, the term "joint resolution" means only a joint resolution of either House of Congress as described in paragraph (5) or paragraph (lOXB). (B) Ninety calendar days after receipt by the Congress of the comprehensive strategy, on the first day that both Houses of the Congress are in session after such ninety-day period, a joint resolution of approval containing the authorization of appropriations requested by the Corporation for the proposed comprehensive strategy shall be introduced in their respective Houses by the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. (C) The Corporation may withdraw the comprehensive strategy any time prior to the adoption of such joint resolution by either House of the Congress. (2) Upon introduction, the joint resolution shall be referred immediately to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the appropriate committee or committees of the House of Representatives. (3) For the purpose of subsection (c)(l)(A) of this section— (A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die at the end of the second session of a Congress; and