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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

PUBLIC LAW 97-100—DEC. 23, 1981

95 STAT. 1409

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, DEPARTMENT OP ENERGY

Appropriations to the Department of E n e r ^ under this Act for the current fiscal year shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; and reimbursement to the General Services Administration for security guard services. From this appropriation, transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. None of the funds made available to the Department of Energy under this Act sheill be used to implement or finance authorized price support or loan guarantee programs unless specific provision is made for such programs in an appropriations Act. The Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public and private sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, private, or foreign: Provided, That (1) revenues received from the sale of any products produced in facilities other than demonstration plants operated as part of Department of Energy programs appropriated under this Act shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and (2) revenues and other moneys received by or for the account of the Department of Energy or otherwise generated by sale of products in connection with demonstration plant projects of the Department appropriated under this Act may be retained by the Secretary of Energy, to be available until expended, and used only for plant construction, operation costs, and payments to cost-sharing entities as provided in appropriate cost-sharing contracts or agreements: Provided further. That the remainder of revenues after the making of such payments shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That any contract, agree- Contracts, ment or provision thereof entered into by the Secretary pursuant to submittal to this authority shall be submitted to the Senate Committee on congressional Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations and a committees. period of thirty days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing the thirty days, there shall be excluded the days on which either the Senate or the House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days) before the contract, agreement or provision thereof shall become effective, except that such committees, after having received the proposed contract, agreement or provision thereof, may, by separate resolutions in writing, waive the condition of all or any portion of such thirty-day period. Where the Secretary has the legal authority under other provisions Coal conversion. of law, including other provisions of this Act, to undertake projects for the design, construction, or operation of Government-owned facilities for developing or demonstrating the conversion of coal into gaseous, liquid, or solid hydrocarbon products, the Secretary may use the authority contained in Public Law 85-804 (50 U.S.C. 1431-1435), with respect to such contracts or agreements for or related to such projects: Provided, That any contract, agreement, or provision Contracts, thereof entered into by the Secretary using the authority of Public submittal to Law 85-804 shall be submitted to the Senate Committee on Appropri- congressional committees. ations and the House Committee on Appropriations and a period of thirty days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing the thirty days, there shall be excluded the days on which either the Senate or the House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days) before the contract, agreement or provision thereof