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PUBLIC LAW 88-113-SEPT. 6, 1963

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standards established either by the General Services Administration, the United States Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, or the United States Arary Corps of Engineers. SEC. 2. Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts prescribed in paragraphs (1), (2), (3)(4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14), of subsection 1(b) may in the discretion of the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, be varied upward 5 per centum to meet unusual cost variations, but the total cost of all work authorized under such paragraphs shall not exceed a total of $693,060,400. SEC. 3. Not to exceed 2 per centum of the funds appropriated pur- Transfers of suant to subsection 1(a) hereof may be transferred to the "Construe- ^""^s. tion of facilities" appropriation, and, when so transferred, together with $30,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 1(b) hereof (ether than funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (15) of such subsection) shall be available for expenditure to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations at any location (including locations specified in subsection 1(b)), if (1) the Administrator determines such action to be necessary because of changes in the national program of aeronautical and space activities or newscientific or engineering developments, and (2) he determines 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 funds so made available may be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site I)reparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. No portion of Report to consuch sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to construct, gressionai comexpand, or modify laboratories and other installations unless (A) a ™ period of thirty days has passed after the Administrator or his designee has transmitted to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning (1) the nature of such construction, expansion, or modification, (2) the cost thereof including the cost of any real estate action pertaining thereto, and (3) the reason why such construction, expansion, or modification is necessary in the national interest, or (B) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action. SEC. 4. 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 and Astronautics or the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, (2) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program in excess of the amovmt actually authorized for that particular program by sections 1(a) and 1 (c), and (3) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program which has not Ibeen presented to or requested of either such committee, unless (A) a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by 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, or (B) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action.

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