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PUBLIC LAW 703-AUG. 30, 1954

[68 S T A T.

"SEC. 231. CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS.—In case of failure or refusal to

obey a subpena served upon any person pursuant to subsection 161 c, the district court for any district in which such person is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Attorney General on behalf of the United States, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, or both, in accordance with the subpena; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof. " C H A P T E R 19. M I S C E L L A N E O U S "SEC. 241. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.—Nothing in this Act shall be

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deemed to repeal, modify, amend, or alter the provisions of section ^ (^) ^^ ^^^ Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as heretofore amended. "SEC. 251. REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Commission shall submit to the Congress, in January and July of each year, a report concerning the activities of the Commission. The Commission shall include in such report, and shall at such other times as it deems desirable submit to the Congress, such recommendations for additional legislation as the Commission deems necessary or desirable. "SEC. 261. APPROPRIATIONS.—There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act except such as may be necessary for acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion. The Acts appropriating such sums may appropriate specified portions thereof to be accounted for upon the certification of the Commission only. Funds appropriated to the Commission shall, if obligated by contract during the nscal year for which appropriated, remain available for expenditure for four years following the expiration of the fiscal year for which appropriated. "SEC. 271. AGENCY JURISDICTION.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the authority or regulations of any Federal, State, or local agency with respect to the generation, sale, or transmission of electric power. "SEC. 272. APPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL POWER ACT.—Every licensee

under this Act who holds a license from the Commission for a utilization or production facility for the generation of commercial electric energy under section 103 and who transmits such electric energy in interstate commerce or sells it at wholesale in interstate commerce shall be subject to the regulatory provisions of the Federal Power Act. "SEC. 273. LICENSING OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.—Nothing in this Act shall preclude any Government agency now or hereafter authorized by law to engage in the production, marketing, or distribution of electric energy from obtaining a license under section 103, if qualified under the provisions of section 103, for the construction and operation of production or utilization facilities for the primary purpose of producing electric energy for disposition for ultimate public consumption. "SEC. 281. SEPARABILITY.—If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. "SEC. 291. SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 'Atomic

Energy Act of 1954'."

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