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port, and $496,500,000 shall be for Space and Flight Sup-
port. 
EDUCATION 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in carrying out aerospace and aeronautical education re-
search and development activities, including research, de-
velopment, operations, support, and services; program 
management; personnel and related costs, uniforms or al-
lowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and op-
eration 
of 
mission 
and 
administrative 
aircraft, 
$175,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2011. 
CROSS AGENCY SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, explo-
ration, space operations and education research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance; space flight, 
spacecraft control, and communications activities; pro-
gram management; personnel and related costs, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase and hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; not to exceed $70,000 for official 
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reception and representation expenses; and purchase, 
lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $3,164,000,000: Provided, That 
$2,182,900,000 shall be available for center management 
and operations: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 
U.S.C. 2459j, proceeds from enhanced use leases that may 
be made available for obligation for fiscal year 2010 shall 
not exceed $0: Provided further, That each annual budget 
request shall include an annual estimate of gross receipts 
and collections and proposed use of all funds collected pur-
suant to 42 U.S.C. 2459j: Provided further, That not less 
than $50,000,000 shall be available for independent 
verification and validation activities: Provided further, 
That within the amounts appropriated $15,700,000 shall 
be used for the projects, and in the amounts, specified in 
the table titled ‘‘Congressionally-designated Items’’ in the 
report of the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives to accompany this Act. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND 
REMEDIATION 
For necessary expenses for construction of facilities 
including repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modi-
fication of facilities, construction of new facilities and ad-
ditions to existing facilities, facility planning and design, 
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real 
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property, as authorized by law, and environmental compli-
ance and restoration, $441,700,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2015: Provided, That within the 
funds provided, $12,600,000 shall be available to support 
science research and development activities; $69,900,000 
shall be available to support exploration research and de-
velopment activities; $26,800,000 shall be available to 
support space operations research and development activi-
ties; and $332,400,000 shall be available for cross agency 
support activities. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$35,000,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Funds for announced prizes otherwise authorized 
shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until 
the prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn. 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration in this Act may be 
transferred between such appropriations, but no such ap-
propriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall 
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such trans-
fers. Any transfer pursuant to this provision shall be treat-
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ed as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation except in com-
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
shall be used to implement by Reduction in Force or other 
involuntary separations (except for cause) by the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration prior to September 
30, 2010. 
The unexpired balances of the Science, Aeronautics, 
and Exploration account, for activities for which funds are 
provided under this Act, may be transferred to the new 
accounts established in this Act that provide such activity. 
Balances so transferred shall be merged with the funds 
in the newly established accounts, but shall be available 
under the same terms, conditions and period of time as 
previously appropriated. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
1861–1875), and the Act to establish a National Medal 
of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft 
and purchase of flight services for research support; acqui-
sition of aircraft; and authorized travel; $5,642,110,000, 
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to remain available until September 30, 2011, of which 
not to exceed $570,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended for polar research and operations support, and 
for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for oper-
ational and science support and logistical and other re-
lated activities for the United States Antarctic program: 
Provided, That from funds specified in the fiscal year 
2010 budget request for icebreaking services, up to 
$54,000,000 shall be available for the procurement of 
polar icebreaking services: Provided further, That the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall only reimburse the Coast 
Guard for such sums as are agreed to according to the 
existing memorandum of agreement: Provided further, 
That receipts for scientific support services and materials 
furnished by the National Research Centers and other Na-
tional Science Foundation supported research facilities 
may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further, 
That not less than $147,120,000 shall be available for ac-
tivities authorized by section 7002(b)(2)(A)(iv) of Public 
Law 110–69. 
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research 
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursu-
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