An Act to authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission for acquisition or condemnation of real property or any facilities, or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, and for other purposes.
PL 84-506 (H.R.10387), enacted 05/03/1956

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Reservoir, be responsible for flood-control regulation as provided in 
section 7 of the Act of December 22, 1944, and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall, in the case of Wilson Dam and Reservoir, be respon-
sible for the disposal of water for irrigation or space reserved for 
this purpose in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws. 
Approved May 2, 1956. 
58 Stat. 890. 
33 u s e 709. 
Public Law 506 
CHAPTER 233 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission for acquisition 
or ctmdemnation of real property or any fattilities, or for plant or facility 
acquisition, construction, or expansion, and for other purposes. 
May 3, 1956 
[H. R. 10387] 
Be it enaated hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
SEC. 101. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Atomic Energy Commission the sum of $295,495,000 for acquisition 
or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or 
facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, as follows: 
(a) SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
1. Project 57-a-l, additional feed-materials plant, $22,200,000. 
2. Project 57-a-2, improvements to reactor instrumentation, Han-
f 
ord, Washington, $8,000,000. 
3. Project 57-a-3, improved high level waste handling system. 
Savannah River, $5,000,000. 
4. Project 57-a^, reactor facility safety improvements, Hanford, 
Washington, $5,000,000. 
5. Project 57-a-5, additional waste disposal system, Hanford, 
Washington, $5,000,000. 
6. Project 57-a-6, charging and discharging system, Hanford, 
Washington, $3,450,000. 
7- Project 57-a-7, modifications to existing production facilities 
for increased efficiency and safety, Hanford, Washington, $3,000,000. 
8. Project 57-a-8, chemical processing facility, St. Ivouis, Missouri, 
$1,600,000. 
9. Project 57-a-9. barrier plant automation. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
$1,400,000. 
10. Project 57-a-lO, reactor temperature test installation, Hanford, 
Washington, $900,000. 
11. Project 57-a-ll, improvements to reactor cooling water effluent 
system, Hanford, Washington, $550,000. 
12. Project 57-a-12, fuel element heat-treating plant, Fernald, Ohio, 
$500,000. 
13. Project 57-a-13, renovation of service plant. Oak Ridge, Ten-
nessee, $450,000. 
(b) 
ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
1. Project 57-b-l, area 5 expansion, $20,900,000. 
2. Project 57-b-2, weapons assembly plants, $15,000,000. 
3. Project 57-b-3, weapons production and development plant, 
$15,000,000. 
4. Project 57-b-4, weapons development and engineering facilities, 
Livermore, California, $10,000,000. 
5. Project 57-b-5, storage site modifications, $2,000,000. 
(c) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
1. Project 57-c-l, aircraft nuclear propulsion ground test plant, 
area numbered 2, Idaho, $55,000,000. 
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2. Project 
57-e-2, 
research 
and 
developmental 
test 
plant, 
$15,900,000. 
3. Project 57-C-3, modifications and expansion of aircraft nuclear 
propulsion ground test facilities, area numbered 1, Idaho, $15,000,000. 
4. Project 57-c—t, small submarine reactor test facility, $10,000,000, 
5. Project 57-C-5, expended core handling and service plant. Na-
tional Reactor Testing Station, $4,750,000. 
6. Project 57-C-6, food irradiation facility, $3,000,000. 
7. Project 57-C-7, project Shetwood plant, $2,000,000. 
8. Project 57-C-8, Argonne low power reactor facility, $1,225,000. 
9. Project 57-c-S), materials testing reactor hot cell extension, Na-
tional Reactor Testing Station, $310,000. 
(d) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
1. Project 57-d-l, high energy accelerator, $15,000,000. 
2. Project 57-d-2, bevatron research plant. University of California 
Radiation Laboratory, $1,084,000. 
3. Project 57-d-3, forty-eight-inch heavy particle cyclotron, Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory, $459,000. 
4. Project 57-d-4, conversion of accelerator design building, L^ni-
versity of California Radiation Laboratory, $300,000. 
(e) 
RA^V MATERIALS.— 
1. Project 57-e-l, analytical laboratory addition, (xrand Junction, 
Colorado, $362,000. 
(f) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
1. Project 57-f-l, metallurgy laboratorv, Livermore, California, 
$2,270,000. 
2. Project 57-f-2, base construction, Pacific proving ground, 
$1,569,000. 
3. Project 57-f-3, high explosive and weaponizing plant, Liver-
more, California, $1,100,000. 
4. Project 57-f-4, installation of one hundred and fifteen kilovolt 
tie line, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $1,000,000. 
5. Project 57-f-5, base construction, Nevada test site, $543,000. 
6. Project 57-f-6, manufacturing support plant, Kansas City, Mis-
souri, $444,000. 
7. Project 57-f-7, Avarehouse, Sandia, $308,000. 
8. Project 57-f-8, mechanical shop additions, Livermore, Califor-
nia, $300,000. 
9. Project 57-f-9, programing building, Livermore, California, 
$180,000.' 
(g) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
1. Project 57-g-l, addition to electrical power system. National 
Reactor Testing Station, $3,800,000. 
2. Project 57-g-2, chemistry cave for radioactive materials, Argonne 
National'Laboratory, $800,000. 
3. Project 57-g-3, transient housing, Argonne National Laboratory, 
$533,000. 
4. Project 57-g-4, materials testing reactor maintenance shop, Na-
tional Reactor Testing Station, $235,000. 
(h) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
1. Project 57-h-l, permanent research buildings. Oak Ridge Na-
tional Laboratory, $5,780,000. 
2. Project 57-h-2, phvsics building, Brookhaven National Labora-
tory, $2,140,000. 
3. Project 57-h-3, engineering building, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, $1,879,000. 
4. Project 57-h-4, engineering service building, Universitv of Cali-
fornia Radiation Laboratory. $1,080,000. 
5. Project 57-h-5, cosmotron target area, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, $350,000. 
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6. Project 57-li-6, eijiliteen-inch cyclotron building, Brookhaven 
National Laboratory, $800,000. 
7, Project o7-h-7, addition to heavy ion accelerator building. Uni-
versity of California Radiation Laboratory, $200,000. 
(i) BIOLOGY AND MEDICTXK.— 
1. Project 57-i-l, reclamation plant and hot laundry, Brookhaven 
National" Laboratory, $400,000. 
( j ) 
COMMIXTTY.— 
1. Project 57-j-l, real estate development progi-am, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico, $359,000. 
2. Project 57-J-2, elementary school classrooms, T^s Alamos, New 
Mexico, $195,000. 
(k) ADMINISTRATIVE.— 
1. Project 57-k-l, conversion of barracks for Albuquerque Opera-
tions Office headquarters, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 
$600,000. 
2. Project 57-k-2, renovation of building for technical information 
services, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, $517,000. 
(1) RAW MATERIALS.— 
1. Project 57-1^1, oif-site access roads, $2,873,000. 
(m) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT,— 
1. Project 57-m-l, purchase of Bettis Field property, $400,000. 
(n) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$21,000,000. 
LIMITATIONS 
SEO. 102. (a) The Commission is authorized to start any project 
set forth in subsections 101 (a) through 101 (d) only if the currently 
estimated cost of that project does not exceed by more than 25 per 
centum the estimated cost set forth for that project. 
(b) The Commission is authorized to start any project set forth in 
subsections 101 (e) through 101 (k) only if the currently estimated 
cost of that project does not exceed by more than 10 per centum the 
estimated cost set forth for that project. 
(c) The Commission is authorized to start the project set forth in 
subsection 101 (L) and (m) only if the currently estimated cost of 
the project does not exceed the estimated cost set forth for that project. 
(d) The Commission is authorized to start a project under sub-
section 101 (n) only if it is in accordance with the following: 
1. For community operations, the maximum currently estimated 
cost of any project shall be $100,000 and the maximum currently 
estimated cost of any building included in such project shall be 
$10,000. 
2. For all other programs, the maximum currently estimated cost 
of any project shall be $500,000 and the maximum currently estimated 
cost of any building included in such a project shall be $100,000. 
3. The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 101 (n) 
shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that subsection by 
more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. There are hereby authorized to be apjjropriated funds for ning? efc?*'* ^^^' 
advance planning, construction design, and architectural services, in 
connection with projects which are not otherwise authorized by law, 
and the Atomic Energy Commission is authorized to use funds cur-
rently or otherwise available to it for such ])urposes. 
SEC. 104. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated funds pi2iu*e*"*'** °^ 
necessary to restore or to replace plants or facilities destroyed or other-
wise seriously damaged, and the Atomic Energy Connnission is au-
thorized to use funds currently or otherwise available to it for such 
purposes. 
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Substitute proj 
ects* 
Additional sums. 
^^Q iQQ jj^ addition to the sums authorized to be appropriated to 
the Atomic Energy Commission by section 101 of this Act, there are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy (Commis-
sion to accomplish the purposes of this Act sucli sums of money as may 
be currently available to the Atomic Energ}^ Commission. 
SEC. 106. Funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to start any other new project for 
which an estimate was not included in this Act if it be a substitute for 
a project authorized in subsections 101 (a), 101 (b), or 101 (f), and the 
estimated cost thereof is within the limit of cost of the project for 
which substitution is to be made, and the Coifimission certifies that— 
(a) the project is essential to the common defense and security; 
and 
^b) the new project is required by changes in weapon charac-
teristics or weapon logistic operations; 
(c) it is unable to enter into a contract with any person, includ-
ing a licensee, on terms satisfactory to the Commission to fur-
nish from a privately owned plant or facility the product or serv-
ices to be provided in the new project. 
Approved May 3, 1956. 
Public Law 507 
CHAPTER 234 
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ACT 
May 4, 1956 
[H. R. 4047] 
Relating to the establishment of public recreation facilities in Alaska, and for 
other purposes. 
Alaska. 
Recreation facil-
ities. 
Appropriations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in dongress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior, as an aid in the settlement and development of the 
Territory of Alaska, for a period of five years after the approval of 
this Act, is authorized to construct campgrounds and parking areas, 
including necessary access roads thereto, and other public recreation-
area facilities in Alaska and to maintain them pending their transfer 
to appropriate Territorial agencies and communities: Provided^ That 
no lodges, hotels, or other structures providing overnight accommoda-
tions for the public shall be constructed pursuant to this Act. 
Such 
public recreation facilities may be constructed upon lands under the 
Secretary's administrative jurisdiction that are not needed for other 
public purposes. 
The Secretary is authorized to transfer, upon such 
terms and conditions as he may consider to be in the public interest, 
to appropriate Territorial agencies and communities for operation 
and maintenance such of the aforesaid public facilities and land relat-
ing thereto as he shall deem in the public interest. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum 
of $100,000 per year for each of the fiscal vears ending June 30,1957, 
June 30, 1958, June 30, 1959, June 30, 1960, and June 30, 1961. 
Approved May 4, 1956. 
May 9,1956 
[H. R. 6162] 
Public Law 508 
CHAPTER 237 
AN ACT 
To provide for longer terms of office for the justices of the Supreme Court of 
Hawaii and the circuit courts of Hawaii. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first para-