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PUBLIC LAW 88-369-JULY 11, 1964

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(7) Lewis Research Center, Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, $770,000; (8) Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, $23,907,500; (9) George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, $14,523,500; (10) Michoud Plant, New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana, $6,207,500; (11) Mississippi Test Facility, Mississippi, $58,891,500; (12) Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia, $1,749,000; (13) Various locations, $35,352,500; (14) Facility planning and design not otherwise provided for, $10,000,000. (c) For "Administrative operations", $623,525,500. Administrative (d) Appropriations for "Research and development" m a j be used ProsTam speci(1) for any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of fications. land) which may be required for the performance of research and development contracts and (2) for grants to nonprofit institutions of higher education, or to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is the conduct of scientific research, for purchase or construction of additional research facilities; and title to such facilities shall be vested in the United States unless the Administrator determines that the national program of aeronautical and space activities will best be served by vesting title in any such- grantee institution or organization. Each such grant shall be made under such conditions as the Administrator shall determine to be required to insure that the' United States will receive therefrom benefit adequate to justify the making of that grant. None of the funds appropriated for "Re- Report to con. search and development" pursuant to this Act may be used for con- mittees. struction of any major facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $250,000, unless the Administrator or his designee has notified the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of the nature, location, and estimated cost of such facility. (e) When so specified in an appropriation Act, any amount appropriated for "Research and development" or for "Construction of facilities" may remain available without fiscal year limitation. (f) Appropriations made pursuant to subsection 1(c) may be ^ui'^atroji"''*^°"" used, but not to exceed $35,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses upon the approval or authority of the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government. (g) No part of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 1(c) for maintenance, repairs, alterations, and minor construction shall be used for the construction of any new facility the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $100,000. 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), and (13) 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 $252,880,500. SEC. 3. Not to exceed 2 per centum of the funds appropriated pur- j^^^^"^^^"" °^ suant to subsection 1(a) hereof may be transferred to the "Construction of facilities" appropriation, and, when so transferred, together with $30,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 (b) hereof (other than funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (14) of such subsection) shall be available for expenditure to con31-667 0-65—23

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