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PUBLIC LAW 92-307-JUNE 2, 1972

SEC. 302. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1972, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law. SEC. 303. Applicable appropriations or funds available for the fiscal year 1972 shall also be available for payment of prior fiscal year obligations for retroactive pay increases granted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5341.

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Retroactive pay increases.

80 Stat. 471; 82 Stat. 997.

Approved May 27, 1972. Public Law 92-307 AN ACT To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to authorize the Commission to issue temporary operating licenses for nuclear power reactors under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

June 2, 1972 [ H. R. 14655]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby Nuclear power added to the Atomic Energy Act a new section 192 to read as follows: "^^xempoVary " SEC. 192. TEMPORARY OPERATING LICENSE.— licensing author"a. I n any proceeding upon an application for an operating license e's Stat. 921. for a nuclear power reactor, in which a hearing is otherwise required ^^ use 2011. ^ pursuant to section 189 a., the applicant may petition the Commission ^2 USC' 223^9 for a temporary operating license authorizing operation of the facility pending final action by the Commission on the application. Such petition may be filed at any time after filing of: (1) the report of the yp, ^^ Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards required by subsection •'••^'. i 182 b.; (2) the safety evaluation of the application by the Commission's regulatory staff; and (3) the regulatory staff's final detailed statement < on the environmental impact of the facility prepared pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (83 Stat. 853) or, in the case of an application for operating license "^2 USC 4332. filed on or before September 9, 1971, if the regulatory staff's final detailed statement required under section 102(2)(C) is not completed, the Commission must satisfy the applicable requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act prior to issuing any temporary '^^ "^^ '^^^i operating license under this section 192. The petition shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits setting forth the facts upon which the petitioner relies to justify issuance of the temporary operating, du-\ license. Any party to the proceeding may file affidavits in support of, • or opposition to, the petition within fourteen days after the filing of such petition, or within such additional time not to exceed ten days as may be fixed by the Commission. The Commission shall hold a hear- Hearing; pubuing after ten days' notice and publication once in the Federal Register Register. on any such petition and supporting material filed under this section and the decision of the Commission with respect to the issuance of a temporary operatins: license, following such hearing, shall be on the basis of findings on the matters specified insubsection b. of this section. The hearing required by this section and the decision of the Commission on the petition shall be conducted with expedited procedures as the Commission may by rule, regulation, or order deem appropriate for a full disclosure of material facts on all substantial issues raised in connection with the proposed temporary operating license.

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