PUBLIC LAW 102-377—OCT. 2, 1992 106 STAT. 1343 Acts for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, hereafter shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive Order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, subsequent Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts or any other provision of law hereafter, none of the funds made available under this Act, subsequent Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts or any other law hereafter shall be used for the purposes of conducting any studies relating or leading to the possibility of changing from the currently required "at cost" to a "market rate" or any other noncost-based method for the pricing of hydroelectric power by the six Federal public power authorities, or other agencies or authorities of the Federal Government, except as may be specifically authorized by Act of Congress hereafter enacted. SEC. 506. Such simis as may be necessary for Federal employee pay raises for programs funded by this Act or subsequent Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts hereafter shall be absorbed within the levels appropriated in such Acts. SEC. 507. (a) Hereafter, funds made available by this Act or any other Act for fiscal year 1993 or for any other fiscal year may be available for conducting a test of a nuclear explosive device only if the conduct of that test is permitted in accordance with the provisions of this section. (b) No underground test of a nuclear weapon may be conducted by the United States after September 30, 1992, and before July 1, 1993. (c) On and after July 1, 1993, and before January 1, 1997, an undergroimd test of a nuclear weapon may be conducted by the United States— (1) only if— (A) the President has submitted the annual report required under subsection (d); (B) 90 days have elapsed after the submittal of that report in accordance with that subsection; and (C) Congress has not agreed to a joint resolution described in subsection (d)(3) within that 90-day period; and (2) only if the test is conducted during the period covered by the report. (d)(1) Not later than March 1, of each year beginning after 1992, the President shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in classified and unclassified forms, a report containing the following matters: (A) A schedule for resumption of the Nuclear Testing Talks with Russia. (B) A plan for achieving a multilateral comprehensive ban on the testing of nuclear weapons on or before September 30, 1996. (C) An assessment of the number and type of nuclear warheads that will remain in the United States stockpile of active nuclear weapons on September 30, 1996. 42 USC 7152 note. 5 USC 5303 note. Nuclear weapons. 42 USC 2121 note. President. Reports.
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