An Act to amend the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, as amended, the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958, as amended
PL 90-190 (S.2644), enacted 12/14/1967

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PUBLIC LAW 90-190-DEC. 14, 1967 
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Public Law 90-190 
A N A C T 
December 14, 1967 
To amend the Atomic Energy Connnunity Act of 1955. as amended, the Atomic 
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Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the P]URAT()]M Cooperation Act of 1958, 
as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Floufse of RefTesentatires 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 58 of co'^munuy Xcf o
f 
the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1.955, as amended, is amended 1955, amendment. 
to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 58. PRIORITY SALE OF APARTMENT HOUSES.— 
"a. The Commission is authorized at Los Alamos to grant to occu-
pants, project-connected persons, and persons residing in the commu-
nity both at the time of offering of an apartment house for sale and for 
the preceding six months, and to any of the foregoing persons acting 
together, such priority interests and priority rights for the purchase 
of the apartment house as the Commission determines to be fair and 
reasonable: Provided, That a first priority right to purchase may be 
granted only to an occupant or a group of occupants, or an assignee 
(whose membership or ownership is composed of occupants, or project-
connected persons, or persons residing in the community both at the 
time of offering of an apartment house for sale and for the preceding 
six months, or any of the foregoing persons) of the priority interests of 
such occupants, who or which has obtained the priority interest of at 
least 60 per centum of the occupants of the apartment house: Provided 
further, That a second priority right to purchase may be granted only 
to an entity w^hose membership or ownership consists of occupants, 
or project-connected persons, or persons residing in the community 
both at the time of offering of an apartment house for sale and for 
the preceding six months, or any of the foregoing persons (provided 
that such entity has obtained the priority interest of at least one 
occupant), and whose membership or ownership equals in number, and 
occupies or agrees to occupy, at least 70 per centum of the housing 
units in the apartment house. The 15 per centum deduction specified by 
subsection 35 a., the deduction provided by subsection 36 d., the financ-
ing provisions of section 62, and the indemnity provided by sections 63, 
64, 65, and 66 shall be applicable to such priority sales of apartment 
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houses. Priority interests granted by the Commission under this section 2326, 2352- 2j66. 
shall be transferable as the Commission may by rule or regulation 
prescribe, but no priority right to purchase shall be transferred except 
as provided by section 43. 
"b. Any occupant who does not participate in the purchase of an 
apartment house with respect to which a priority right to purchase has 
been granted shall be entitled, at the time of sale by the Commission, to 
a lease for occupancy of his housing unit for a period not to exceed 
fifteen months from the date the property was first offered for sale: 
Provided, That the occupant makes application for such a lease within 
30 days of the grant of such priority to purchase. In selling any apart-
ment house with respect to which a lease executed under this section is 
in effect, the Commission is authorized to provide for the purchaser to 
assume any or all obligations of the lessor. The Commission in such 
event shall guarantee the lessee's performance of the lease. 
"c. Persons who have purchased, either individually or jointly with 
other persons, a single-family house or duplex house (or a single-
family unit in a duplex house) at Los Alamos pursuant to a priority 
right under this Act shall not be eligible to participate in the priority 
purchase of an apartment house. 
"d. The Commission is authorized to prescribe by rule or regula-
tion such other conditions as it may find necessary or desirable for 
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(j[ualification of priority interests and rights for the purcliase of an 
apartment house.'' 
Assistance pay- 
gj,^. 2. SeotioH 91 of tlic Atomic Euerffv Commimitv Act of 1955, 
69 Stat. 481. 
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S amended, is amended— 
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(1) by striking out subsection a. and inserting in lieu thereof: 
"a. From the date of transfer of any municipal instalhitions to a 
governmental or other entity at or for the community, the Commission 
shall, for a, period of ten years, make annual assistance payments of 
just and reasonable sums to the State, county, or local entity having 
jurisdiction to collect property taxes or to the entity receiving the 
installation transferred hereunder: Provided, hoirerer, with respect to 
the Cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington, and 
the Richland School District, the Commission is authorized to con-
tinue to make assistance payments of just and reasonable sums after 
expiration of such ten-year period. In determining the amount and 
recipient of such payments the Commission shall consider— 
"(1) the approximate real property taxes and assessments for 
local improvements which would be paid to the governmental 
entity upon property within the community if such property were 
not exempt from taxation by reason of Federal ownership; 
" (2) the maintaining of municipal services at a level which will 
not impede the recruitment or retention of personnel essential to 
the atomic energy program; 
"(3) the fiscal problems peculiar to the governmental entity by 
reason of the construction at the community as a single purpose 
national defense installation under emergency conditions; 
"(4) the municipal services and other burdens imposed on the 
governmental or other entities at the community by the United 
States in its operations in the project area; and 
" (5) the.tax revenues and sources available to the governmental 
entity, its efforts and diligence in collection of taxes, assessment 
of property, and the efficiency of its operations."; 
(2) by striking out subsection d. and inserting in lieu thereof: 
"d. With respect to any entity not less than six months prior to the 
expiration of the ten-year period referred to in subsection a. (or not 
less than six months prior to June 30, 1979, in the case of the Cities 
of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington, and the Rich-
land School District), the Commission shall present to the Joint Com-
mittee on Atomic Energy its recommendations as to the need for any 
further assistance payments to such entity."; and 
(3) by adding the following new subsection e.: 
"e. In exercising the authority of subsection 91 a. the Commission 
shall assure itself that the governmental or other entities receiving 
assistance hereunder utilize all reasonable, available means to achieve 
financial self-sufficiency to the end that assistance payments by the 
Commission may be reduced or terminated at the earliest practical 
time." 
SEC. 3. Section 94 of the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, 
as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 94. COMMISSIOX CONTRACTS.—The Commission is authorized, 
without re^^ard to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, to enter into a 
contract with any governmental or other entity to which payments are 
required or authorized to be made pursuant to section 91, obligating 
the Commission to make to such entity the payments directed or author-
ized to be made by section 91: Provided^ hoioever^ That the term of 
such contracts, in the case of the Cities of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and 
Richland, Washington, and the Richland School District, shall not 
extend beyond June 30, 1979." 
SEO. 4. Subsection 118 a. of the Atomic Energy Community Act 
of 1955, as amended, is amended to read as follows: 
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"a. Xo ap]>r<)priati()ii sluill be inade to caiTy out the ])rovisioiis and 
purposes of this Act unless previously authorized by leoislatiou en-
acted by Congress.*' 
SEC. 5. Subsection 25 a. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
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amended, IS amended to read as follows: 
erai Manager for 
"a. a Division of Military Application and such other program Military Appu-
divisions (not to exceed ten in number) as the Commission may deter- '"^e^stat. 925. 
mine to be necessary to the discharge of its responsibilities, including 
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a division or divisions the primary responsibilities of which include 
the development and application of civilian uses of atomic energy. 
The Division of Military Application shall be under the direction of 
an xVssistant General Manager for Military Application, who shall 
be appointed by the Commission and shall be an active commissioned 
officer of the Armed P^orces serving in general or flag officer rank or 
grade, as appropriate. Each other program division shall be under 
the direction of a Director who shall be appointed by the Commission. 
The Commission shall require each such division to exercise such of 
the Commission's administrative and executive powers as the Com-
mission may determine;'' 
SEC. 6. Section 28 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is 
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amended by revising the first two sentences thereof to read as follows: 
"Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the officer of the 
Army, Xavy, or Air Force serving as Assistant General Manager for 
Military Application shall serve without prejudice to his commissioned 
status as such officer. Any such officer serving as Assistant General 
Manager for Military Application shall receive in addition to his pay 
and allowances, including special and incentive pays, for which pay 
and allowances the Commission shall reimburse his service, an amount 
equal to the difference between such pay and allowances, including spe-
cial and incentive pays, and the compensation established for this 
position." 
SEC. 7. Section 38 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
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tional authority. 
IS amended to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 33. RESEARCH FOR OTHERS.—^Where the Commission finds pri-
vate facilities or laboratories are inadequate to the purpose, it is 
authorized to conduct for other persons, through its own facilities, 
such of those activities and studies of the types specified in section 31 yo^stat.^^ioeg^' 
as it deems appropriate to the development of atomic energy. To the 
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extent the Commission determines that private facilities or labora-
tories are inadequate to the purpose, and that the Commission's 
facilities, or scientific or technical resources have the potential of lend-
ing significant assistance to other persons in the fields of protection of 
public health and safety, the Commission may also assist other persons 
in these fields by conducting for such persons, through the Commis-
si(m's own facilities, research and development or training activities 
and studies. The Commission is authorized to determine and make 
such charges as in its discretion may be desirable for the conduct of 
the activities and studies referred to in this section." 
SEC. 8. Subsection 41 b. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, is amended by deleting the last sentence. 
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SEC. 9. Subsection 53 f. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, is amended by revising the first sentence thereof to read as 
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follows: "The Commission is directed to distribute within the United 
States sufficient special nuclear material to permit the conduct of 
widespread independent research and development activities to the 
maximum extent practicable." 
SEC. 10. Subsection 53 c. (1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, is amended to read as follows: 
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"c. (1) The Commission may distribute special nuclear material 
licensed under this section by sale, lease, lease with option to buy, 
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68 Stat. 936. 
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68 Stat. 948; 
72 Stat. 337. 
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Uranium and 
plutonium. 
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grant, or through the provision of production or enrichment services: 
Provided^ however, That unless otherwise authorized by law, the Com-
mission shall not after December 31, 1970, distribute special nuclear 
material except by sale or through the provision of production or 
enrichment services to any person who possesses or operates a utiliza-
tion facility under a license issued pursuant to section 103 or 104 b. 
for use in the course of activities under such license; nor shall the 
Commission permit any such person after June 30, 1973, to continue 
leasing for use in the course of such activities special nuclear material 
previously leased to such person by the Commission." 
SEC. 11. Subsection 161 n. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, is amended by striking out "57 a. (3)" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "57 b.". 
SEC. 12. Section 223 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
is amended by striking out the letter "p." appearing after the word 
"or" and inserting in lieu thereof the letter "o.". 
SEC. 13. Section 5 of the EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958, as 
amended, is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. Pursuant to the provisions of section 54 of the Atomic 
Energj' Act of 1954, as amended, there is hereby authorized for sale 
or lease to the Community— 
"two hundred fifteen thousand kilograms of contained uranium 
235; 
"one thousand five hundred kilograms of plutonium; and 
"thirty kilograms of uranium 233; 
in accordance with the provisions of an agreement or agreements for 
cooperation between the Government of the United States and the 
Community entered into pursuant to the provisions of section 123 of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended: Provided.^ That the Govern-
ment of the United States obtains the equivalent of a first lien on any 
such material sold to the Community for which payment is not made 
in full at the time of transfer. The Commission may enter into con-
tracts to provide, after December 31,1968, for the producing or enrich-
ing of all, or part of, the above-mentioned contained uranium 235 pur-
suant to the provisions of subsection 161 v. (B) of said Act, as amended, 
in lieu of sale or lease thereof." 
SEC. 14. The table of contents of the Atomic Energy Conmiunity Act 
of 1955, as amended, is amended by inserting a new heading entitled 
"Sec. 58. Priority sale of apartment houses." 
Approved December 14, 1967. 
Public Law 90-191 
AN ACT 
December 14, 1967 
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rjij^ amend the marketing quota provisions of the Agrii-ultunil Adjustment Act of 
IJKSS. as amended. 
Rice. 
Excess market-
ing quota. 
63 Stat. 1060. 
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Be it eiuicted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ Tliat section 356 of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by 
adding at the end of subsection (e) thereof a new sentence as follows: 
"If the farm marketing excess of rice detei-mined for any farm is 
delivered to Commodity Credit Corporation or any other agency within 
the Department, in accordance witli regulations prescribed by the Sec-
retary, such farm shall be considered to be in compliance Avitli tlie rice 
acreage allotment for such year." 
Approved December 14, 1967.