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 89 STAT. 994

Congressional committees, consent.

PUBLIC LAW 94-165—DEC. 23, 1975 1911, as amended (16 U.S.C. 513-519, 521), where such land is not within the boundaries of an established national forest or purchase unit. None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obligated or expended to change the boundaries of any region, to abolish any region, to move or close any regional office for research, State and private forestry, and National Forest System administration of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, without the consent of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry in the U.S. Senate and the Committee on Agriculture in the U.S. House of Representatives. The period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, inclusive, shall be treated as a fiscal year for the purpose of computing and making payments provided under provisions of the Acts of May 23, 1908, as amended, March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U.S.C. 500); March 4, 1913, as amended (16 U.S.C. 501); June 20, 1910 (36 Stat. 562, 573); and June 22, 1948, as amended (16 U.S.C. 577c-577h), except the percent used shall be one-quarter of the three-fourths of 1 percent specified in this Act and the period July 1 through September 30, 1976, shall not be counted as a year in computing the ten-year interval between determination of the fair appraised value of the National Forest lands involved. ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION OPERATING EXPENSES, FOSSIL FUELS

42 USC 5801 note.

For necessary operating expenses of the Administration in carrying out the purposes of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; publication and dissemination of atomic and other energy information; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services; hire of passenger motor vehicles; $426,994,000 and any moneys (except sums received from the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act, as amended, and fees received for tests or investigations under the Act of May 16, 1910, as amended (50 U.S.C. 98h; 30_U.S.C. 7)) received by the Energy Research and Development Administration notwithstanding the provisions of section 3617 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 484), to remain available until expended: Provided, That from this appropriation transfers of sums may be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance of the work for which this appropriation is made: Provided further, That the amount appropriated in any other appropriation act for "Operating expenses" for the Energy Research and Development Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, shall be merged, without limitation, with this appropriation: Provided further, That no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used for the field testing of nuclear explosives in the recovery of oil and gas. For "Operating expenses, fossil fuels" for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, $108,956,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the amount appropriated in any other appropriation act for "Operating expenses" for the Energy Research and Development Administration for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, shall be merged, without limitation, with this appropriation.

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