Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 1.djvu/824

 94 STAT. 774

PUBLIC LAW 96-294—JUNE 30, 1980 Administration for fiscal year 1981 the sum of $5,000,000, to remain available until expended. O> Authorizations of appropriations for the nine fiscal years t) following the fiscal year in which the comprehensive plan is submitted in final form under section 704(c)(3), for purposes of carrying out the comprehensive ten-year program established by section 703(a) and implementing the comprehensive plan under sections 704 and 705, shall be provided on an annual basis in authorization Acts hereafter enacted; but the total sum of dollars authorized for such purposes for such nine fiscal years shall not exceed $45,000,000 except as may be specifically provided by reference to this paragraph in the authorization Acts involved. SUBTITLE B—CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY

SEC. 711. (a)(1) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to carry out a comprehensive study of the projected impact, on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, of fossil fuel combustion, coal-conversion and related S5nithetic fuels activities authorized in this Act, and other sources. Such study should also include an assessment of the economic, physical, climatic, and social effects of such impacts. In conducting such study the Office and the Academy are encouraged to work with domestic and foreign governmental and non-governmental entities, and international entities, so as to develop an international, worldwide assessment of the problems involved and to suggest such original research on any aspect of such problems as the Academy deems necessary. Report to (2) The President shall report to the Congress within six months Congress. after the date of the enactment of this Act regarding the status of the Office's negotiations to implement the study required under this section. Results, report to (b) A report including the major findings and recommendations Congress. resulting from the study required under this section shall be submitted to the Congress by the Office and the Academy not later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act. The Academy contribution to such report shall not be subject to any prior clearance or review, nor shall any prior clearance or conditions be imposed on the Academy as part of the agreement made by the Office with the RecommendaAcademy under this section. Such report shall in any event include tions. recommendations regarding— (1) how a long-term program of domestic and international research, monitoring, modeling, and assessment of the causes and effects of varying levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide should be structured, including comments by the Office on the interagency requirements of such a program and comments by the Secretary of State on the international agreements required to carry out such a program; (2) how the United States can best play a role in the development of such a long-term program on an international basis; (3) what domestic resources should be made available to such a program; (4) how the ongoing United States Government carbon dioxide assessment program should be modified so as to be of increased 42 USC 8911.

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