agency) which specifies (A) procurement practices for the selection, award, or management of contracts or grants by such department or agency, or (B) program activities, limitations, obligations, or responsibilities of such department or agency. [42 U.S.C. 8903] IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SEC. 705. (a) The comprehensive plan shall be carried out during the nine fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the comprehensive plan is submitted in its final form under section 704(c)(3); and (1) shall be carried out in accord with, and meet the program objectives specified in, paragraphs (1) through (11) of section 704(b); (2) shall be managed in accord with paragraphs (12) through (14) of such section; and (3) shall be funded by annual appropriations, subject to annual authorizations which shall be made for each fiscal year of the program (as provided in section 706) after the submission of the Task Force progress report which under section 704(e) is required to be submitted by January 15 of the calendar year in which such fiscal year begins. (b) Nothing in this subtitle shall be deemed to grant any new regulatory authority or to limit, expand, or otherwise modify any regulatory authority under existing law, or to establish new criteria, standards, or requirements for regulation under existing law. [42 U.S.C. 8904] AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 706. (a) For the purpose of establishing the Task Force and developing the comprehensive plan under section 704 there is authorized to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 1981 the sum of $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. (b) Authorizations of appropriations for the nine fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the comprehensive plan is submitted in final form under section 704(c)(3), for purposes of carrying out the comprehensive ten-year program established by section 703(a) and implementing the comprehensive plan under sections 704 and 705, shall be provided on an annual basis in authorization Acts hereafter enacted; but the total sum of dollars authorized for such purposes for such nine fiscal years shall not exceed $45,000,000 except as may be specifically provided by reference to this paragraph in the authorization Acts involved. [42 U.S.C. 8905] SUBTITLE B-CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY SEC. 711. (a)(1) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to carry out a comprehensive study of the projected impact, on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, of fossil fuel combustion, coal-conversion and related synthetic fuels activities authorized in this Act, and other sources. Such study should also include an assessment of the economic, physical, climatic, and social effects of such impacts. In conducting such study the Office and the Academy are encouraged to work with domestic and foreign governmental and non-governmental entities, and international entities, so as to develop an international, worldwide assessment of the problems involved and to suggest such original research on any aspect of such problems as the Academy deems necessary. (2) The President shall report to the Congress within six months after the date of the enactment of this Act regarding the status of the Office's negotiations to implement the study required under this section. (b) A report including the major findings and recommendations resulting from the study required under this section shall be submitted to the Congress by the Office and the Academy not later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act. The Academy contribution to such report shall not be subject to any prior clearance or review, nor shall any prior clearance or conditions be imposed on the Academy as part of the agreement made by the Office with the Academy under this section. Such report shall in any event include recommendations regarding— (1) how a long-term program of domestic and international research, monitoring, modeling, and assessment of the causes and effects of varying levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide should be structured, including comments by the Office on the interagency requirements of such a program and comments by the Secretary of State on the international agreements required to carry out such a program; (2) how the United States can best play a role in the development of such a long-term program on an international basis; (3) what domestic resources should be made available to such a program; (4) how the ongoing United States Government carbon dioxide assessment program should be modified so as to be of increased utility in providing information and recommendations of the highest possible value to government policy makers; and (5) the need for periodic reports to the Congress in conjunction with any long-term program the Office and the Academy may recommend under this section. (c) The Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall furnish to the Office or the Academy upon request any information which the Office or the Academy determines to be necessary for purposes of conducting the study required by this section. (d) The Office shall provide a separate assessment of the interagency requirements to implement a comprehensive program of the type described in the third sentence of subsection (b). [42 U.S.C. 8911] AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 712. For the expenses of carrying out the carbon dioxide study authorized by section 711 (as determined by the Office of Science and Technology Policy) there are authorized to be appropriated such sums, not exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary. At least 80 percent of any amounts appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be provided to the National Academy of Sciences. [42 U.S.C. 8912] TITLE VIII-STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE [Sections 801, 802, and 803 of this title amended section 160 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which is set forth in its amended form in volume III of this compilation.] NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES SEC. 804. (a) [Amends title 10, United States Code.] ALLOCATION TO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE OF LOWER TIER CRUDE OIL; USE OF FEDERAL ROYALTY OIL SEC. 805. (a)(1) In order to carry out the requirement of the amendment made by section 801 of this Act and to carry out the policies and objectives established in sections 151 and 160(b)(1) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6231 and 6240(b)(1)), the President shall, within 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, promulgate and make effective an amendment to the provisions of the regulation under section 4(a) of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 relating to entitlements, which has the same effect as allocating lower tier crude oil to the Government for storage in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Such amendment shall not apply with respect to crude oil purchased after September 30, 1981, for storage in such reserve. (2) The authority provided by this subsection shall be in addition to, and shall not be deemed to limit, any other authority available to the President under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 or any other law. (3) The President or his delegate may promulgate and make effective rules or orders to implement this subsection without regard to the requirements of section 501 of the Department of Energy Organization Act or any other law or regulation specifying procedural requirements. (b) In addition to the requirement under subsection (a), the President may direct that— (1) all or any portion of Federal royalty oil be placed in storage in the Reserve, (2) all or any portion of Federal royalty oil be exchanged, directly or indirectly, for other crude oil for storage in the Re serve, or (3) all or any portion of the proceeds from the sales of Federal royalty oil be transferred to the account established under subsection (c) for use for the purchase of crude oil for the Reserve, as provided in subsection (c). (c)(1) Any proceeds (A) from the sale of entitlements received by the Government under the amendment to the regulation made under subsection (a), and (B) to the extent provided in subsection (b), from the sale of Federal royalty oil, shall be deposited in a special account which the Secretary of the Treasury shall establish on the books of the Treasury of the United States. (2)(A) Subject to the provisions of any Act enacted pursuant to section 660 of the Department of Energy Organization Act, such account shall be available (except as provided in subparagraph (B)) for use by the Secretary of Energy, without fiscal year limitation, for the purchase of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts. (B) Amounts in such account attributable to the proceeds from the sale of entitlements under the amendment to the regulation under subsection (a) are hereby appropriated for fiscal year 1981 for acquisition of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve pursuant to subsection (a). (d) For purposes of this section (1) the terms "entitlements", "crude oil", and "allocation" shall have the same meaning as those terms have as used in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 (and the regulation thereunder); (2) the term "lower tier crude oil" means crude oil which is subject to the price ceiling established under section 212.73 of title 10, Code of Federal Regulations; (3) the term "Federal royalty oil" means crude oil which the United States is entitled to receive in kind as royalties from production on Federal land (as such term is defined in section 3 (10) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6202(10)); and (4) the term "proceeds from the sale of Federal royalty oil" means that portion of the amounts deposited into the Treasury of the United States from the sale of Federal royalty oil which is not otherwise required to be disposed of (other than as miscellaneous receipts) pursuant to (A) the provisions of section 35 of the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended (41 Stat. 450; 30 U.S.C. 191), commonly known as the Mineral Lands Leasing Act, or (B) the provisions of any other law. 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