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Calendar No. 208
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1654
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MAY 20, 1999
Received
JULY 14, 1999
Read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for fiscal years 2000, 2001,
and 2002, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘National Aeronautics and Space Administration Author-
ization Act of 1999’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Subtitle A—Authorizations
Sec. 101. International Space Station.
Sec. 102. Launch Vehicle and Payload Operations.
Sec. 103. Science, Aeronautics, and Technology.
Sec. 104. Mission Support.
Sec. 105. Inspector General.
Sec. 106. Total authorization.
Sec. 107. Aviation systems capacity.
Subtitle B—Limitations and Special Authority
Sec. 121. Use of funds for construction.
Sec. 122. Availability of appropriated amounts.
Sec. 123. Reprogramming for construction of facilities.
Sec. 124. Limitation on obligation of unauthorized appropriations.
Sec. 125. Use of funds for scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses.
Sec. 126. Earth science limitation.
Sec. 127. Competitiveness and international cooperation.
Sec. 128. Trans-hab.
Sec. 129. Consolidated Space Operations Contract.
Sec. 130. Triana funding prohibition.
TITLE II—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 201. Requirement for independent cost analysis.
Sec. 202. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 amendments.
Sec. 203. Commercial space goods and services.
Sec. 204. Cost effectiveness calculations.
Sec. 205. Foreign contract limitation.
Sec. 206. Authority to reduce or suspend contract payments based on substan-
tial evidence of fraud.
Sec. 207. Space Shuttle upgrade study.
Sec. 208. Aero-space transportation technology integration.
Sec. 209. Definitions of commercial space policy terms.
Sec. 210. External tank opportunities study.
Sec. 211. Eligibility for awards.
Sec. 212. Notice.
Sec. 213. Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of 1949 amendments.
Sec. 214. Innovative technologies for human space flight.
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Sec. 215. Life in the universe.
Sec. 216. Research on International Space Station.
Sec. 217. Remote sensing for agricultural and resource management.
Sec. 218. Integrated safety research plan.
Sec. 219. 100th anniversary of flight educational initiative.
Sec. 220. Internet availability of information.
Sec. 221. Sense of the Congress; requirement regarding notice.
Sec. 222. Use of abandoned and underutilized buildings, grounds, and facilities.
Sec. 223. Space Station commercialization.
Sec. 224. Anti-drug message on Internet sites.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration should continue to pursue actions and
reforms directed at reducing institutional costs, in-
cluding management restructuring, facility consoli-
dation, procurement reform, and convergence with
defense and commercial sector systems.
(2) The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration must continue on its current course of
returning to its proud history as the Nation’s leader
in basic scientific, air, and space research.
(3) The overwhelming preponderance of the
Federal Government’s requirements for routine, un-
manned space transportation can be met most effec-
tively, efficiently, and economically by a free and
competitive market in privately developed and oper-
ated space transportation services.
(4) In formulating a national space transpor-
tation service policy, the National Aeronautics and
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Space Administration should aggressively promote
the pursuit by commercial providers of development
of advanced space transportation technologies in-
cluding reusable space vehicles, and human space
systems.
(5) The Federal Government should invest in
the types of research and innovative technology in
which United States commercial providers do not in-
vest, while avoiding competition with the activities in
which United States commercial providers do invest.
(6) International cooperation in space explo-
ration and science activities serves the United States
national interest—
(A) when it—
(i) reduces the cost of undertaking
missions the United States Government
would pursue unilaterally;
(ii) enables the United States to pur-
sue missions that it could not otherwise af-
ford to pursue unilaterally; or
(iii) enhances United States capabili-
ties to use and develop space for the ben-
efit of United States citizens; and
(B) when it—
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(i) is undertaken in a manner that is
sensitive to the desire of United States
commercial providers to develop or explore
space commercially;
(ii) is consistent with the need for
Federal agencies to use space to complete
their missions; and
(iii) is carried out in a manner con-
sistent with United States export control
laws.
(7) The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration and the Department of Defense can co-
operate more effectively in leveraging their mutual
capabilities to conduct joint space missions that im-
prove United States space capabilities and reduce
the cost of conducting space missions.
(8) The Deep Space Network will continue to
be a critically important part of the Nation’s sci-
entific and exploration infrastructure in the coming
decades, and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration should ensure that the Network is
adequately maintained and that upgrades required
to support future missions are undertaken in a time-
ly manner.