Union Calendar No. 82
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1654
[Report No. 106–145]
A BILL
To authorize appropriations for the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration for fiscal years
2000, 2001, and 2002, and for other purposes.
MAY 18, 1999
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,
and ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 82
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1654
[Report No. 106–145]
To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for fiscal years 2000, 2001, and 2002, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 3, 1999
Mr. ROHRABACHER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Science
MAY 18, 1999
Additional sponsors: Mr. BROWN of California, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr.
COOK, Mr. NETHERCUTT, Mr. ETHERIDGE, and Mr. GARY MILLER of
California
Deleted sponsor: Mr. GORDON (added May 13, 1999; deleted May 17, 1999)
MAY 18, 1999
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 3, 1999]
A BILL
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,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration Authoriza-
tion 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 substantial
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.
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. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration should continue to pursue actions and re-
forms directed at reducing institutional costs, includ-
ing management restructuring, facility consolidation,
procurement reform, and convergence with defense
and commercial sector systems.
(2) The National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration must continue on its current course of re-
turning to its proud history as the Nation’s leader in
basic scientific, air, and space research.
(3) The overwhelming preponderance of the Fed-
eral 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
Space Administration should aggressively promote the
pursuit by commercial providers of development of
advanced space transportation technologies including
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 invest,
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 mis-
sions the United States Government would
pursue unilaterally;
(ii) enables the United States to pursue
missions that it could not otherwise afford
to pursue unilaterally; or
(iii) enhances United States capabili-
ties to use and develop space for the benefit
of United States citizens; and
(B) when it—
(i) is undertaken in a manner that is
sensitive to the desire of United States com-
mercial providers to develop or explore
space commercially;
(ii) is consistent with the need for Fed-
eral 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 Admin-
istration and the Department of Defense can cooper-
ate more effectively in leveraging their mutual capa-
bilities to conduct joint space missions that improve
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 scientific
and exploration infrastructure in the coming decades,
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion should ensure that the Network is adequately
maintained and that upgrades required to support fu-
ture missions are undertaken in a timely manner.
(9) The Hubble Space Telescope has proven to be
an important national astronomical research facility
that is revolutionizing our understanding of the uni-
verse and should be kept productive, and its capabili-
ties should be maintained and enhanced as appro-
priate to serve as a scientific bridge to the next gen-
eration of space-based observatories.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Admin-
istrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration;
(2) the term ‘‘commercial provider’’ means any
person providing space transportation services or
other space-related activities, primary control of
which is held by persons other than Federal, State,
local, and foreign governments;
(3) the term ‘‘institution of higher education’’
has the meaning given such term in section 1201(a)
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1141(a));
(4) the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the several
States of the Union, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, and any other common-
wealth, territory, or possession of the United States;
and
(5) the term ‘‘United States commercial pro-
vider’’ means a commercial provider, organized under
the laws of the United States or of a State, which is—
(A) more than 50 percent owned by United
States nationals; or
(B) a subsidiary of a foreign company and
the Secretary of Commerce finds that—
(i) such subsidiary has in the past evi-
denced a substantial commitment to the
United States market through—
(I) investments in the United
States in long-term research, develop-
ment, and manufacturing (including
the manufacture of major components
and subassemblies); and
(II) significant contributions to
employment in the United States; and
(ii) the country or countries in which
such foreign company is incorporated or or-
ganized, and, if appropriate, in which it
principally conducts its business, affords re-
ciprocal treatment to companies described
in subparagraph (A) comparable to that af-
forded to such foreign company’s subsidiary
in the United States, as evidenced by—
(I) providing comparable oppor-
tunities for companies described in
subparagraph (A) to participate in
Government sponsored research and de-
velopment similar to that authorized
under this Act;
(II) providing no barriers to com-
panies described in subparagraph (A)
with respect to local investment oppor-
tunities that are not provided to for-
eign companies in the United States;
and
(III) providing adequate and ef-
fective protection for the intellectual
property rights of companies described
in subparagraph (A).
TITLE I—AUTHORIZATION OF
APPROPRIATIONS
Subtitle A—Authorizations
SEC. 101. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration for Inter-
national Space Station—
(1) for fiscal year 2000, $2,482,700,000, of which
$394,400,000, notwithstanding section 121(a)—