contract between the Commission and the equipment manufacturer or engineering organization with respect to the development, design, and construction of the reactor and related facilities, and by direct contract between the Commission and the cooperative or publicly owned organization with respect to the provision of a site and conventional turbogenerating facilities, the operation of the entire plant including training of personnel, the sale by the Commission of steam from the reactor complex to the cooperative or publicly owned organization, and other relevant matters. Sale of steam by the Commission under contract with the cooperative or publicly owned organization shall be at rates based upon the present cost of, or the projected cost of, comparable steam from a plant using conventional fuels at such locations. Projects covered under this subsection shall be operated under contract with the Commission for such period of time as the Commission determines to be advisable for research and developments purposes but in no event to exceed ten years. Upon the expiration of such period the Commission shall offer the reactor and its appurtenances for sale to the cooperative or publicly owned agency at a price to reflect appropriate depreciation but not to include construction costs. assignable to research and development. In the event the cooperative or publicly owned agency elects not to purchase the reactor and its appurtenances, the Commission shall dismantle them.

(2) Funds in the amount of $4,309,000 30 may be expended for research and development in Commission laboratories to advance the technology of the fast breeder reactor concept.

(3) The date for approving proposals under the third round of the power demonstration reactor program shall be no later than June 30, 1969,31 and no funds authorized for the third round shall be expended on projects approved under the first or second rounds of such program or on other nuclear power projects already under construction.

(b) Before the Commission enters into any arrangement (including contract, agreement, and loan) or amendment thereto, the basis of which has not been included in the program justification data previously submitted to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy in support of authorization legislation approved in accordance with the provisions of section 261 a. (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and which involves appropriations authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the basis for the arrangement or amend

30 This figure was originally $1,500,000 in Public Law 85-162, the fiscal year 1958 act. It was amended by Public Law 85-590, the fiscal year 1959 act, sec. 109, to $2,750,000 and further amended by Public Law 86-50, the fiscal year 1960 act, sec. 110(a) to the figure of $3,600,000; the amount was further amended to the amount of $4,309,000 by sec. 104 of Public Law 88-72, the fiscal 1964 Authorization Act.

31 This date was originally December 31, 1958, in Public Law 85-165, the fiscal year 1958 act. It was amended by Public Law 85-590, the fiscal year 1959 act, sec. 109 to June 30, 1959, and further amended by Public Law 86-50. the fiscal year 1960 act, sec. 110 (a) to the date of June 30. 1960. Sec. 109 (a) of Public Law 86-457, the fiscal year 1961 act, changed the date to June 30, 1961. Sec. 109 (a) of Public Law 87-315, the fiscal year 1962 act, changed the date to June 30, 1962. Section 110 (a) of Public Law 87-701, the fiscal year 1963 act, changed the date to June 30, 1963. Sec. 103 of Public Law 88-72, the fiscal 1964 act. changed the date to June 30. 1964. Sec. 106 of Public Law 88-332, the fiscal year 1965 act. changed the date to June 30, 1965. Sec. 105 of Public Law 89-32, the fiscal year 1966 act, changed the date to June 30, 1966. Sec. 105 of Public Law 89-428, the fiscal year 1967 act, changed the date to June 30, 1987. Sec. 105 of Public Law 90-56, the fiscal year 1968 act, changed the date to June 30, 1968. Sec. 105 of Public Law 90-289, the fiscal year 1969 act, changed the date to June 30, 1969.

ment thereto which the Commission proposes to execute (including the name of the proposed contractor or party with whom the arrangement is to be made, a general description of the proposed reactor, the estimated amount of the assistance to be provided under section 261 a. (2), the estimated cost to be incurred by the contractor or other party, and the general features of the proposed arrangement or amendment) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days): Provided, however, That the Joint Committee after having received the basis for a proposed arrangement, or amendment thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of or all or any portion of such forty-five-day period: Provided further, That such arrangement or amendment shall be entered into in accordance with the program justification data described above and the basis for the arrangement or amendment submitted as provided herein: And provided further, That no basis for a particular arrangement or amendment thereto need be resubmitted to the Joint Committee for the sole reason that the estimated amount of assistance provided for therein exceeds the estimated amount of assistance previously submitted to the Joint Committee by not more than 15 per centum.

(c) Funds appropriated to the Commission, pursuant to the authorization contained in subsection (a) of this section, shall be available to the Commission for cooperative arrangements which may provide for the waiver by the Commission of its charges for the use of heavy water for a period not to exceed five years in any proposed reactor otherwise eligible for assistance under the Commission's power reactor demonstration program.32

(d) Funds appropriated to the Commission, pursuant to the authorization contained in subsection (a) of this section and authorized for the Third Round of the Commission's power reactor demonstration program, shall be available to the Commission for a cooperative arrangement in accordance with the basis for an arrangement described in the Program Justification Data for Arrangement Numbered 58-111-5.32

(e) Funds appropriated to the Commission pursuant to the authorization contained in subsection (a) of this section, for the Commission's power reactor demonstration program shall be available to the Commission for a cooperative arrangement in accordance with the basis for an arrangement described in the Program Justification Data for Arrangement Numbered 58-111-6 (PHASE I).82

(f) Before the Commission hereafter enters into any arrangement the basis of which has not been previously submitted to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy which involves appropriations authorized by subsection (a) of this section, it shall make public announcement of each particular reactor project it considers technically desirable for construction, and shall set reasonable dates for submission, approval of the proposal and negotiation of the basis of the arrangement, and commencement of construction.32

Public Law 85-590 (1958), sec. 109, amended sec. 111 by adding new subsecs. (c), (d). (e), and (f).

SEC. 201. Section 161 e. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended by adding after the words "adjusted terms which" in the proviso thereof, the following: "(at the time of the initial grant of any privilege grant, lease, or permit, or renewal thereof, or in order to avoid inequities or undue hardship prior to the sale by the United States of property affected by such grant.").

SEC. 202. Section 35 of the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, as amended, is amended by adding thereto :

"c. The appraised value of the Government's interest in commercial property shall, in the cases where renegotiation of the lease is requested by the lessee under the provisions of section 161 e. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, be based upon the renegotiated lease if any is agreed on. Where such renegotiations are requested, the sales proceedings shall not be initiated until the completion of the renegotiation."

SEC. 203. The Atomic Energy Commission, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Housing and Home Finance Agency shall report to the Joint Committee by January 31, 1958, with respect to the renegotiations, reappraisals, and sales proceedings authorized under sections 201 and 202 of this Act.

SEC. 204. Section 161 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended by adding the following new subsection:

"s. Under such regulations and for such periods and at such prices the Commission may prescribe, the Commission may sell or contract to sell to purchasers within Commission-owned communities or in the immediate vicinity of the Commission community, as the case may be, any of the following utilities and related services, if it is determined that they are not available from another local source and that the sale is in the interest of the national defense or in the public interest:

"(1) Electric power.

"(2) Steam.

"(3) Compressed air.

"(4) Water.

"(5) Sewage and garbage disposal.

(6) Natural, manufactured, or mixed gas.

"(7) Ice.

"(8) Mechanical refrigeration.

(9) Telephone service.

"Proceeds of sales under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation currently available for the supply of that utility or service. To meet local needs the Commission may make minor expansions and extensions of any distributing system or facility within or in the immediate vicinity of a Commission-owned community through which a utility or service is furnished under this subsection."

Approved August 21, 1957.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY INDEX TO PUBLIC LAW 85-162 (H.R. 8996)

Introduced by Mr. Durham; Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,

13221.

Reported (H. Rept. 987), 13533.

Made special order, 14102.

Debated, 14114, 14247.

Amended and passed House, 14261.

Ordered placed on Senate Calendar, 14315.
Objected to, 14389.

Amended and passed Senate, 15057.

Senate insists on its amendment and asks for conference, 15057.
Conferees appointed, 15057.

House disagrees to Senate amendment and agrees to a conference.

15182.

Conferees appointed, 15182.

Conference report submitted in Senate and agreed to. 15310, 15314 Conference report submitted in House and agreed to, 15387.

Examined and signed, 15367, 15503.

Presented to the President, 15544.

Approved (Public Law 85-162), 16511.

COMPANION BILL-S. 2674

Mr. Anderson; Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 13091.

Reported (S. Rept. 791), 13424.

Objected to 13587, 14377.

Debated, 14913, 15002, 15032.

Indefinitely postponed, 15057.

AMENDMENTS TO PUBLIC LAW 85-162

PUBLIC LAW 85-412

[H.R. 12009]

AN ACT

To amend Public Law 85-162 to increase the authorization for appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 101 of Public Law 85-162 is hereby amended by striking the figure “$222.230,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the figure "$257.230.000".

SEC. 2. Section 101(e) of Public Law 85-162 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection, reading:

"16. Project 58-e-16, destroyer reactor plant, West Milton, New York, $35,000.000."

Approved May 16, 1958.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY INDEX TO PUBLIC LAW 85-412

(Page references are to the Congressional Record, 85th Cong., 2d sess.)

Introduced by Mr. Durham: April 17, 1958.

Referred to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 6719.

Reported April 22, 1958 (H. Rept. 1618), 6952.

Made special order (H. Res. 553, H. Rept. 1668). April 29, 1958, 8153.

Debated May 6, 1958, 7307-10. Passed House May 6, 1958, 8154.

Passed Senate May 7, 1958, 8218.
Examined and signed, 8311, 8352.
Presented to the President, 8632.

Approved (Public Law 85-412).

May 16, 1958, 8990.

COMPANION BILL-S. 3632

Introduced by Senator Anderson. April 17, 1958.

Referred to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 6626.

Reported, April 22, 1958 (S. Rept. 1465), 6860.

Objected to May 1, 1958, 7634.

Indefinitely postponed (H.R. 12009 passed in lieu). May 7, 1958,

8218.

PUBLIC LAW 85-590 (AEC AUTHORIZATION
ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1959)

AEC authorization.

[85TH CONGRESS, H.R. 13121]

[AUGUST 4, 1958]

AN ACT

To authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SEC. 101. PLANT OR FACILITY ACQUISITION OR CONSTRUCTION.-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy Commission, in accordance with the provisions of section 261 a. (1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum of $436,879,000 33 for acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, as follows:

(a) SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.—

1. Project 59-a-1, plant modifications for processing of nonproduction spent fuels, undetermined sites, $15,000,000.

2. Project 59-a-2, pilot plant for fabrication of new fuel elements, Fernald, Ohio, $335,000.

3. Project 59-a-3, reduction of fire hazardsphase II gaseous diffusion plants, Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Portsmouth, $11,900,000.

83 Amended by Public Law 87-701 (76 Stat. 599) (1962). Prior to amendment, figure was $386,679,000.