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(A) the total amount of funds being allocated for those purposes for any fiscal year for which the President has submitted an annual budget request to Congress; (B) the amount of funds being allocated for those purposes for each center, for headquarters, and for each directorate; and (C) the major activities included in each cost category; and (2) the figures on the amount of unobligated funds and unexpended funds, by appropriations account— (A) that remained at the end of the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the budget is being presented that were carried over into the fiscal year in which the budget is being presented; (B) that are estimated will remain at the end of the fiscal year in which the budget is being presented that are proposed to be carried over into the fiscal year for which the budget is being presented; and (C) that are estimated will remain at the end of the fiscal year for which the budget is being presented. (j) NASA AERONAUTICS TEST FACILITIES AND SIMULATORS.— (1) REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall commission an independent review of the Nation’s long-term strategic needs for aeronautics test facilities and shall submit the review to the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate. The review shall include an evaluation of the facility needs described pursuant to subsection (c)(2)(A)(iii). The review shall take into consideration the results of the study conducted pursuant to the instructions on page 582 of the conference report (H. Rept. 108–767) to accompany the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (P.L. 108–375). (2) LIMITATION.—The Administrator shall not close or mothball any aeronautics test facilities identified in the 2003 independent assessment by the RAND Corporation titled ‘‘Wind Tunnel and Propulsion Test Facilities: An Assessment of NASA’s Capabilities to Serve National Needs’’ as being part of the minimum set of those facilities necessary to retain and manage to serve national needs, or any aeronautics simulators, that were in use as of January 1, 2004, with the exception of the already closed 16-foot transonic tunnel, until— (A) the review conducted under paragraph (1) has been transmitted to the Congress; and (B) 60 days after the Administrator has transmitted to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a written certification that the proposed closure will not have an adverse impact on NASA’s ability to execute the national policy developed under subsection (c) and to achieve the goals described in that policy. Subparagraph (B) shall cease to be effective five years after the date the study required by this section has been transmitted to the Congress.

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