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PUBLIC LAW 90-190-DEC. 14, 1967

[81 STAT.

(j[ualification of priority interests and rights for the purcliase of an apartment house.'' Assistance paygj,^. 2. SeotioH 91 of the Atomic Euerffv Community Act of 1955, 69 Stat. 481. US amended, is amended— 42 USC 2391. (1) by striking out subsection a. and inserting in lieu thereof: "a. From the date of transfer of any municipal instalhitions to a governmental or other entity at or for the community, the Commission shall, for a, period of ten years, make annual assistance payments of just and reasonable sums to the State, county, or local entity having jurisdiction to collect property taxes or to the entity receiving the installation transferred hereunder: Provided, hoirerer, with respect to the Cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington, and the Richland School District, the Commission is authorized to continue to make assistance payments of just and reasonable sums after expiration of such ten-year period. In determining the amount and recipient of such payments the Commission shall consider— "(1) the approximate real property taxes and assessments for local improvements which would be paid to the governmental entity upon property within the community if such property were not exempt from taxation by reason of Federal ownership; " (2) the maintaining of municipal services at a level which will not impede the recruitment or retention of personnel essential to the atomic energy program; "(3) the fiscal problems peculiar to the governmental entity by reason of the construction at the community as a single purpose national defense installation under emergency conditions; "(4) the municipal services and other burdens imposed on the governmental or other entities at the community by the United States in its operations in the project area; and " (5) the.tax revenues and sources available to the governmental entity, its efforts and diligence in collection of taxes, assessment of property, and the efficiency of its operations."; (2) by striking out subsection d. and inserting in lieu thereof: "d. With respect to any entity not less than six months prior to the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in subsection a. (or not less than six months prior to June 30, 1979, in the case of the Cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington, and the Richland School District), the Commission shall present to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy its recommendations as to the need for any further assistance payments to such entity."; and (3) by adding the following new subsection e.: "e. In exercising the authority of subsection 91 a. the Commission shall assure itself that the governmental or other entities receiving assistance hereunder utilize all reasonable, available means to achieve financial self-sufficiency to the end that assistance payments by the Commission may be reduced or terminated at the earliest practical time." SEC. 3. Section 94 of the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, 42 USC 2394. as amended, is amended to read as follows: " SEC. 94. COMMISSION CONTRACTS.—The Commission is authorized, 31 USC 665. without re^^ard to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, to enter into a contract with any governmental or other entity to which payments are required or authorized to be made pursuant to section 91, obligating the Commission to make to such entity the payments directed or authorized to be made by section 9 1: Provided, however, That the term of such contracts, in the case of the Cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington, and the Richland School District, shall not extend beyond June 30, 1979." SEC. 4. Subsection 118 a. of the Atomic Energy Community Act 42 USC 2312. of 1955, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

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