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(C) The Atomic Energy Commission (acting directly or by contract) shall conduct laboratory and other tests and research (whether onsite or elsewhere) relating to the safety of the project, the protection of public health, and the preservation of the quality of the environment before any high level radioactive waste material is placed in salt mines at the proposed site except as provided in subparagraph (A). (D) No high level radioactive materials shall be buried or used, \
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other than as provided by clause (ii) of subparagraph (A), at the proposed site until the advisory council reports to the Congress that construction and operation of such project and the transportation of waste materials to the project can be carried out in a manner which assures the safety of the project, the protection of public health, and the preservation of the quality of the environment of the region. (E) The limitations provided by subparagraph (A) shall not apply after the expiration of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the advisory council submits its report under subparagraph (D). For purposes of the preceding sentence, continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded m the computation of the sixty-day period. Project 72-3-c, analytical support facility. Mound Laboratory, Miamisburg, Ohio, $850,000. Project 72-3-d, research and development test plants. Project Rover, \A)S Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and Nevada Test Site, Nevada. $1,000,000. (4)
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.—
Project 72-4-a, accelerator improvements, zero gradient synchrotron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $225,000. Project 72-4-b, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $280,000. Project 7 2 ^ - c, accelerator improvements, Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Massachusetts, $75,000. Project 72-4-d, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $180,000. Project 72-4-e, accelerator and reactor improvements, medium and low energy physics, $400,000. (5) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.—
Project 72-5-a, radiobiology and therapy research facility ( A E only), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $345,000. (6) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$41,080,000. (7) CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.—Acquisition and
fabrication of capital equipment not related to construction, $153,296,000. SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.— (a) The Commission is authorized to start any project set forth in subsections 101(b)(1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) only if the currently estimated cost of that project does not exceed by more than 25 per centum the estimated cost set forth for that project. (b) The Commission is authorized to start any project under subsection 101(b)(6) only if it is in accordance with the following: (1) The maximum currently estimated cost of any project shall l>e $500,000 and the maximum currently estimated cost of any building included in such project shall be $100,000 provided that the building cost limitation may be exceeded if the Commission determines that it is necessary in the interest of efficiency and economy.
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