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 102 STAT. 4090

Reports.

PUBLIC LAW 100-685—NOV. 17, 1988

construction, expansion, or modification of facilities at any location; and 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 Administrator may transfer not to exceed Va of 1 percent of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 201(a)(1) or (2) to the "Construction of facilities" appropriation for such purposes. The Administrator may also use up to $10,000,000 of the amounts authorized under section 201(a)(3) for such purposes. The funds so made available pursuant to this section may be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. No such funds may be obligated until a period of 30 days has passed after the Administrator or the Administrator's designee has transmitted to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a written report describing the nature of the construction, its cost, and the reasons therefor. LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORITY

SEC. 204. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act— (1) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program deleted by the Congress from requests as originally made to either the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology or the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (2) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program in excess of the amount actually authorized for that particular program by section 201(a)(1), (2), and (4); and (3) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program which has not been presented to either such committee, unless a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate and each such committee, of notice given by the Administrator or his designee containing a full and complete statement of the action proposed to be taken and the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of such proposed action. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH FUNDS 42 USC 2459 note.

SEC. 205. It is the sense of the Congress that it is in the national interest that consideration be given to the widest geographical distribution of Federal research funds whenever feasible, and that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should explore ways and means of distributing its research and development funds whenever feasible. ARREST AUTHORITY

42 USC 2456a. Regulations.

SEC. 206. Section 304 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(f) Under regulations to be prescribed by the Administrator and approved by the Attorney General of the United States, those employees of the Administration and of its contractors and subcontractors authorized to carry firearms under subsection (e) may arrest without warrant for any offense against the United States

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