99 STAT. 1014
42 USC 2459a.
Report.
PUBLIC LAW 99-170—DEC. 5, 1985
with this subsection for the construction of any major facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $500,000, unless the Administrator or the Administrator's designee has notified the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate of the nature, location, and estimated cost of such facility. (f) When so specified and to the extent provided in an appropriation.Act, (1) any amount appropriated for "Research and development", for "Space flight, control and data communications" or for "Construction of facilities" may remain available without fiscal year limitation, and (2) maintenance and operation of facilities and support services contracts may be entered into under the "Research and program management" appropriation for periods not in excess of 12 months beginning at any time during the fiscal year. (g) Appropriations made pursuant to subsection (d) may be used, but not to exceed $35,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses upon the approval or authority of the Administrator, and the Administrator's determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government. (h) Of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsections (a), (b), and (d), not in excess of $100,000 for each project, including collateral equipment, may be used for construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and for repair, rehabilitation, or modification of facilities: Provided, That, of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), not in excess of $500,000 for each project, including collateral equipment, may be used for any of the foregoing for unforeseen programmatic needs. SEC. 102. Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts prescribed in paragraphs (1) through (11), inclusive, of section 101(c)— (1) in the discretion of the Administrator or the Administrator's designee, may be varied upward 10 percent, or (2) following a report by the Administrator or the Administrator's designee to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on the circumst£inces of such action, may be varied upward 25 per centum, to meet unusual cost variations, but the total cost of all work authorized under such paragraphs shall not exceed the total of the amounts specified in such paragraphs. SEC. 103. Not to exceed one-half of 1 per centum of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 101(a) or lOlOt)) may be transferred to and merged with the "Construction of facilities" appropriation, and, when so transferred, together with $10,000,000 of funds appropriated pursuant to section 101(c) (other than funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (12) of such section) shall be available for expenditure to construct, expand, and modify laboratories and other installations at any location (including locations specified in section 101(c)), if (1) the Administrator determines such action to be necessary because of changes in the national program of aeronautical and space activities or new scientific or engineering developments, and (2) the Administrator determines that deferral of such action until the enactment of the next authorization Act would be inconsistent with the interest of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities. The funds so made available may be expended to
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