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 PUBLIC LAW 99-170—DEC. 5, 1985

99 STAT. 1015

acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. No portion of such sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations unless a period of 30 days has passed after the Administrator or the Administrator's designee has transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning (i) the nature of such construction, expansion, or modification, (ii) the cost thereof including the cost of any real estate action pertaining thereto, and (iii) the reason why such construction, expansion, or modification is necessary in the national interest. SEC. 104. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used for any program— (1) deleted by the Congress from requests as originally made either to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate or the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives; (2) in excess of the amount actually authorized for that particular program by subsections (a), QD), and (d) of section 101; and (3) which has not been presented to either such committee, unless 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 the Administrator's 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. SEC. 105. It 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. 106. No civil space station authorized under section 101(a)(1) may be used to carry or place in orbit any nuclear weapon or any other weapon of mass destruction, to install any such weapon on any celestial body, or to station any such weapon in space in any other manner. This civil space station may be used only for peaceful purposes. SEC. 107. On and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Inspector General of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may administer to or take from any person an oath, affirmation or affidavit, whenever necessary in the performance of the functions assigned by the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). Any such oath, affirmation or affidavit, when administered or taken by or before an investigator or such other employee of the Office of the Inspector General as may be designated by the Inspector General, shall have the same force and effect as if administered or taken by or before an officer having a seal. SEC. 108. The authorization for space shuttle production and operational capability includes provisions for the production activities necessary to provide for a fleet of four space shuttle orbiters.

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