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 PUBLIC LAW 94-187—DEC. 31, 1975

89 STAT. 1069

(a) For "Operating expenses", for the following programs, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following amounts: (1) FOSSIL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.—

(A) Coal liquefaction: Costs, $16,000,000. Changes in selected resources, $12,750,000. (B) High Btu gasification (coal): Costs, $7,450,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,800,000. (C) Low Btu gasification (coal): Costs, $7,300,000. Changes in selected resources, $5,350,000. Provided, That not less than 20 per centum of the funds appropriated pursuant to this subparagraph (C) shall be used for in situ processes. (D) Advanced power systems (coal): Costs, $2,050,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,450,000. (E) Direct combustion (coal): Costs, $5,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $9,800,000. (F) Advanced research and supporting technology (coal), for the following: (i) Advanced coal conversion process: Costs, $2,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,900,000. (ii) Advanced direct coal utilization process: Costs, $500,000. Changes in selected resources, $500,000. "SEC. 106. LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER EEACTOR DEMONSTRATION

Cooperative arrangements.

PROGRAM—FOURTH ROUND.— (a) The Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative arrangements with reactor manufacturers and others for participation in the research and development, design, construction, and operation of a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor powerplant, in accordance with criteria approved by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, without regard to the provisions of section 169 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. Appropriations are hereby author- 42 USC 2209. ized for the period consisting of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the interim period following that fiscal year and ending September 30, 1976, for the aforementioned cooperative arrangements as shown in the basis for arrangements as submitted in accordance with subsection (b) hereof. In addition, ERDA may agree to provide assist- Waiver. ance in the form of waiver of use charges during the term of the cooperative arrangements without regard to the provisions of section 53 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, by waiving use charges in 42 USC 2073. an amount not to exceed $10,000,000. "(b) Before ERDA enters into any arrangement or amendment Proposal, thereto under the authority of subsection (a) of this section, the basis submittal to Joint for the arrangement or amendment thereto which ERDA proposes to eommittee on execute (including the name of the proposed participating party or Atomic Energy. parties with which the arrangement is to be made, a general description of the proposed powerplant, the estimated amount of cost to be incurred by ERDA and by the participating parties, and the general features of the proposed arrangement or amendment) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days on which either

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