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 PUBLIC LAW 94-39—JUNE 19, 1975

89 STAT. 221

unless (A) a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate and each such committee of notice given by the Administrator or his designee containing a full and complete statement of the action proposed to be taken and the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of such proposed action, or (B) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the eifect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action. SEC. 5. I t is the sense of the Congress that it is in the national interest that consideration be given to geographical distribution of Federal research funds whenever feasible, and that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration should explore ways and means of distributing its research and development funds whenever feasible. SEC. 6. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is authorized, when so provided in an appropriation Act, to enter into a contract for tracking and data relay satellite services. Such services shall be furnished to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in accordance with applicable authorization and appropriation Acts. The Government shall incur no costs under such contract prior to the furnishing of such services except that the contract may provide for the payment for contingent liability of the Government which may accrue in the event the Government should decide for its convenience to terminate the contract before the end of the period of the contract. Facilities which may be required in the performance of the contract may be constructed on Government-owned lands if there is included in the contract a provision under which the Government may acquire title to the facilities, under terms and conditions agreed upon in the contract, upon termination of the contract. The Administrator shall in January of each year report to the Committee on Science and Technology and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate the projected aggregate contingent liability of the Government under termination provisions of any contract authorized in this section through the next fiscal year. The authority of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to enter into and to maintain the contract authorized hereunder shall remain in effect as long as provision therefor is included in Acts authorizing appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for subsequent fiscal years. SEC. 7. In addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 1 of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to be available no earlier than July 1, 1976: (a) For "Research and development," for the programs specified in the following paragraphs, $700,600,000, of which no more shall be available for any such program than the amount stipulated (for that program) in the applicable paragraph: (1) Space Shuttle, $321,000,000; ^2) Space flight operations, $55,100,000; (3) Advanced missions, $500,000; (4 J Physics and astronomy, $46,600,000; (6) Lunar and planetary exploration, $73,300,000; (6) Launch vehicle procurement, $40,400,000; (7) Space applications, $54,700,000; ^8) Aeronautical research and technology, $46,800,000; (9) Space and nuclear research and technology, $22,300,000;

Notice to Speaker of the House and President of the Senate.

Research funds;, geograpical distribution. 42 USC 2459 note. Satellite service!! contract authorization. 42 USC 2463.

Report to congressional committees.

Additional authorizations.

Research and development.

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