An Act to authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes
PL 87-701 (H.R.11974), enacted 09/26/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-701-SEPT. 26, 1962 
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Public Law 87-701 
AN A C T 
September 26, 1962 
To authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance 
[H. R. 11974] 
with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate cmd House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
Atomic Energy 
SEC. 101. PLANT OR FACILITY ACQUISITION OR CONSTRUCTION.—There propHatfon?' ^^" 
is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy Com- ^^Acquisition, 
mission in accordance with the provisions of section 261a (1) of the ^ 71'stat'.'^^/yY. ^' 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as am'ended, the sum of $159,415,000 for 
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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.— 
Project 63-a-l, modifications to production and supporting installa-
tions, $5,000,000. 
Project 63-a-2, modifications to facilities for conversion of UNH 
to UF4, $1,450,000. 
Project 63-a-3, radioactive waste disposal facilities, Hanford, Wash-
ington, $3,700,000. 
(b) SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
Project 63-b-l, consolidated service facility, Hanford, Washington, 
$955,000. 
Project 63-b-2, additional high level waste storage tanks. Savannah 
Kiver, South Carolina, $6,000,000. 
Project 63-b-3, health physics headquarters addition. Savannah 
Kiver, South Carolina, $1,000,000. 
Project 63-b-4, emergency duty personnel shelters, various sites, 
$4,000,000. 
(c) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 63-c-l, weapons production, development, and test installa-
tions, $10,000,000. 
Project 63-C-2, addition to special metallurgical facility, Mound 
Laboratory, Miamisburg, Ohio, $540,000. 
Project 63-C-3, production plant addition. Mound Laboratory, 
Miamisburg, Ohio, $300,000. 
Project 63-C-4, hydraulic centrifuge installation, Sandia Base, New 
Mexico, $700,000. 
Project 63-C-5, specialized plant additions and modifications", phase 
II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, $2,200,000. 
Project 63-C-6, pulsed power research facility, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, California, $1,950,000. 
Project 63-C-7, gamma irradiation facility, Sandia Base, New 
Mexico, $650,000. 
Project 63-C-8, dynamic test complex, Lawrence Radiation Labora-
tory, California, $265,000. 
Project 63-C-9, nondestructive test facility, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
$510,000. 
Project 63-c-lO, processing facilities, Rocky Flats, Colorado, 
$3,000,000. 
(d) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 63-d-l, terminal facilities—115 kilo 
volt power line, Los 
Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $1,950,000. 
Project 63-d-2, environmental control facilities, phase III, Kansas 
City, Missouri, $1,200,000. 
Project 63-d-3, engineering building addition, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, California, $4,000,000. 
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Project 63-d-4, model shop addition (Sandia), Liverniore, Cali-
fornia, $820,000. 
Project 63-d-5, engineering model shop, Kansas City, Missouri, 
$1,000,000. 
Project 63-d-6, improvement of United States Highway 95—T^s 
Vegas, Nevada, to the Nevada test site, $9,000,000. 
(e) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 63-e-l, housing for lithium cooled reactor experiment, 
$5,000j000. 
Project 63-e-2, modifications to reactors, $5,000,000. 
Project 63-e-3, organic reactor project, $20,000,000. 
Project 63-e-4, research and development test plants for Project 
Rover, $10,000,000. 
Project 63-€-5, modifications and additions, CANEL, Middletown, 
Connecticut, $1,400,000. 
(f) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 63-f-l, cafeteria, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, 
$1,500,000. 
(g) PHYSICXL RESEARCH.— 
Project 63-g-l, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, California, $750,000. 
Project 63-g-2, accelerator improvements, Cambridge and Prince-
ton accelerators, $800,000. 
Project 63-g-3, accelerator improvements, Argonne National Lab-
orator;^, Illinois, $500,000. 
Project 63-g-4, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $2,250,000. 
(h) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 63-h-l, low level radiochemistry laboratory, Hanford, 
Washington, $1,200,000. 
Project 63-h-2, inorganic materials laboratory, Lawrence Radia-
tion Laboratory, California, $2,500,000. 
Project 63-h-3, corporation yard, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 
California, $1,500,000. 
Project 63-h-4, mathematics and computer building, Argonne 
National Laboratory, Illinois, $2,300,000. 
Project 63-h-5, building addition for physics and mathematics, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $5,000,000. 
Project 63-h-6, water treatment plant, Brookhaven National Lab-
oratory, New York, $1,000,000. 
(i) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.— 
Project 63-i-l, biological research laboratory additions. Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory, Tennessee, $930,000. 
(j) 
ISOTOPES DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 63-j-l, isotopes technology laboratory. Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, TennesseCj $390,000. 
Project ^ - i - 2 , marme products development irradiator, $600,000. 
Project 63-]-3, two mobile irradiators, $700,000. 
(k) COMMUNITY.— 
Project 63-k-l, White Rock Elementary School, JJOS Alamos, New 
Mexico, $600,000. 
Project 63-k-2, real estate development, I»s Alamos, New Mexico, 
$600,000. 
Project 63-k-3, additional w^ater well, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
$165,000. 
(1) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$34,540,000. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.—(a) The Commission is authorized to start, 
any project set forth in subsections 101 (a), (c), (e), and (g), only 
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if the currently estimated cost of that project does not exceed W 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 (b), (d), (f), (h), (i), (j), and (k), only if the cur-
rently 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 a project under subsec-
tion 101(1) only if it is in accordance with the following: 
1. For community operations, the maximum currently esti-
mated 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, tlie 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(1) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that sub-
section by more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. AJ>VANCED PLANNING AND DESIGN.—There are hereby 
authorized to be appropriated funds for advance planning, construc-
tion 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 currently or otherwise available 
to it for such purposes. 
SEC. 104. RIESTORATION OR REPLACEMENT;—There are hereby author-
ized to be appropriated funds necessary to restore or to replace plants 
or facilities destroyed or otherwise seriously damaged, and the Atomic 
Energy Commission is authorized to use funds currently or other-
wise available to it for such purposes. 
SEC. 105. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FUNDS.—In 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 Commission to accomplish the purposes of this 
Act such sums of money as may be currently available to the Atomic 
Energy Commission. 
SEC. 106. SUBSTITUTION.—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 or portion of a project authorized in sub-
sections 101 (a), (b), (c), and (d) and the estimated cost thereof is 
within the limit of cost of the project for which substitution is to be 
made, and the Commission certifies that— 
(a) the project is essential to the common defense and security; 
(b) the new project is required b j changes in weapon char-
acteristics or weapon logistic operations; and 
(c) it is unable to enter into a contract with any person, includ-
ing a licensee, on terms satisfactory^to the Commission to furnish 
from a privately owned plant or facility the product or services 
to be provided in the new project. 
SEC, 107. AMENDMENT OF PRIOR YEAR ACTS.—(a) Section 101 of 
Public Law 86^50 is amended by striking therefrom the figure vsstat. si. 
•'$165,400,000" and substituting therefor the figure "$172,900,000-'. 
(b) Section 101(g) of Public Law 86-50 is amended by striking 
73 stat, 82. 
therefrom "Project 60-g-3, transuranium laboratory, Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory, Tennessee, $1,200,000" and substituting therefor 
"Project 60-g-3, transuranium processing plant, Oak Ridge National 
Labonitory, Tennessee, $8,700,000"'. 
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75 Stat. 676. 
(c) Sectioii 101 of Public Law 87-315 is amended as follows: (1) 
by striking therefrom the figure "$3,000,000" for project 62-a-5, addi-
tional reactor confinement. Savannah River, South Carolina, and 
substituting therefor the figure "$12,000,000"; (2) by striking there-
from the figure "$7,500,000" for project 62-c-l, weapons production, 
development, and test installations, and substituting therefor the 
figure "$15,000,000"; (3) by striking therefrom the figure "$1,000,-
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000" for project 62-i-3, controlled environment laboratory, Brook-
haven National Laboratory, New York, and substituting therefor the 
figure "$1,800,000"; and (4) by striking therefrom the figure "$700,-
000" for project 62-i-4, animal bioradiological laboratory, Lawrence 
Radiation Laboratory, California, and substituting therefor the figure 
"$980,000". 
72 Stat. 490. 
(d) Sectiou 101 of Public Law 85-590 is amended by striking there-
from the figure "$386,679,000" and substituting therefor the figure 
"$436,879,000". 
73 Stat. 82. 
SEC. 108. RESCISSIONS.— (a) Public Law 86-50, as amended, is fur-
ther amended by rescinding therefrom authorization for a project, 
except for funds heretofore obligated, as follows: 
Project 60-e-14, experimental low-temperature process heat 
reactor, $4,000,000. 
73 Stat. 85. 
(b) Sectiou 111 of Public Law 86-50 is rescinded. 
•SEC. 109. 
COOPERATION W I T H EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COM-
MUNITY.—There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic 
Energy Commission, in accordance with the provisions of section 
71 Stat. 274. 
261a(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum of 
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$5^000,000, in addition to the sum of $10,000,000 previously author-
ized, which shall be available for carrying out the purposes of section 
72 Stat. 1084. 
3 of Public Law 85-846, providing for cooperation with the European 
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Atomic Energy Community. 
SEC. 110. COOPERATIVE POWER REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.— 
71 Stat. 409; 
(a) Scctiou 111 of Public Law 85-162, as amended, is further 
75 Stat. 679. 
amended by striking out the date "June 30,1962" in clause (3) of sub-
section (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the date "June 30, 1963". 
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic 
Energy Commission the sum of $3,000,000 to be available, in addition 
to the funds heretofore authorized, for carrying out the Commission's 
power reactor demonstration program in accordance with the terms 
73 Stat. 84, 86. and couditious provided in sections 110 and 112 of Public Law 86-50. 
(c) Funds authorized and appropriated to the Commission and 
authorized waivers of the Commission's use charges, available for 
the third round of the Commission's power reactor demonstration pro-
gram, shall also be available to the Commission for use in a supple-
mental program of third round cooperative arrangements in accord-
ance with the criteria heretofore submitted to the Joint Committee on 
Atomic Energy and in accordance with the provisions of subsections 
71 Stat. 409; 
111 (b) and (f) of Public Law 85-162. Under any such arrangements 
72 Stat. 493. 
^j^g Commissiou may furnish funds for design assistance without 
regard to the provisions of section 169 of the Atomic Energy Act of 
68 Stat. 952. 
1954. No funds or waiver of use charges made available by this 
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section shall be available for projects heretofore approved under 
the power reactor demonstration program or for other nuclear power 
projects already under construction. 
(d) Funds authorized and appropriated to the Commission and 
authorized waivers of the (Commission's use charges, available in sup-
port of unsolicited proposals from the utility industry to construct 
nuclear powerplants, shall also be available to the Commission for 
use in a cooperative arrangement with any person or persons for par-
ticipation in a nuclear reactor project to generate electricity, process 
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heat, or both. Any such arrangement shall be entered into in accord-
ance with the criteria for the third round of the Commission's power 
reactor demonstration program, including the provisions of section 
111(b) of Public Law 85-162: Promded^ however^ That under any 
7istat.'409. 
such arrangement the Commission may furnish funds for design as-
sistance without regard to the provisions of section 169 of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954. 
es stat. 952. 
SEC. 111. ORGANIC REACTOR PROJECT.—(a) The Commission is au- 
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thorized to enter into cooperative arrangements with any person or 
persons for participation in the development, design, construction, and 
operation of an organic reactor authorized under project 63-e-3 of 
section 101(e) of this Act, and the utilization of the steam generated 
^^nte, p. eoo, 
by the reactor plant. Under such arrangements— 
(1) the Commission is authorized to obtain the participation 
of such person or persons to the fullest extent consistent with the 
Commission's direction of the project and ownership of the re-
actor ; 
(2) the reactor plant may be constructed upon a site provided 
by a participating party with or without compensation; 
(3) the reactor plant shall be operated by, or under contract 
with, the Commission, for such period of time as the Commission 
determines to be advisable for research and development purposes 
and for such additional period as the Commission may determine 
to be necessary in the best interest of the Government. Upon the 
expiration of such period, the Commission may offer the reactor 
plant and its appurtenances for sale to a participating party or 
parties at a price to reflect appropriate depreciation, but not to 
include construction costs assignable to research and development, 
or the Commission may dismantle the reactor plant and its ap-
purtenances ; 
(4) the Commission may sell steam to a participating party at 
rates based upon the present cost of, or the projected cost of, 
comparable steam from a plant using conventional fuels at the re-
actor location; and 
(5) any steam sold shall be used for industrial, manufacturing, 
or other commercial purposes, including the generation of elec-
tric power for use by a participating party, or for research and 
development related thereto, but shall not be used for the genera-
tion of electric power for sale by a participating party. 
The 
participating party or parties shall provide facilities required for 
such utilization of the steam generated by the nuclear plant. 
(b) Before the Commission enters into any arrangement or amend-
ment thereto under the authority of subsection (a) of this section, 
the basis for the arrangement or amendment thereto which the Com-
mission proposes to execute (including the name of the proposed 
participating party or parties with whom the aiTangement is to be 
made, a general description of the proposed powerplant, the estimated 
amount of cost to be incurred by the Commission and by the partici-
pating parties, and the general features of the proposed arrangement 
or amendment) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee, and a 
Review by joint 
period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session 
(in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days 
on which either House is not in session because of adjournment for 
more than three days): Provided^ however^ That the Joint Committee, 
after having received the basis for a proposed arrangement or amend-
ment thereto, may by resolution in writing w^aive the conditions of, or 
all or any portion of, such forty-five day period: Provided 
further^ 
That such arrangement or amendment shall be entered into in accord-
ance with the basis for the arrangement or amendment submitted as 
Committee. 
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Conditions. 
Determinations. 
Congressional 
authorization. 
provided herein: And provided further, That no basis for arrange-
ment need be resubmitted to the Joint Committee for the sole reason 
that the estimated amount of the cost to be incurred by the Commis-
sion exceeds the estimated cost previouslj'^ submitted to the Joint Com-
mittee by not more than fifteen per centum. 
(c) In the event no satisfactory proposal for a cooperative arrange-
ment is received, the Commission may, if the project is still deemed 
desirable, proceed with design, construction, and operation of such a 
reactor plant at a Commission installation. 
The electric energy gen-
erated shall be used by the Commission in connection with the operation 
of such installation and the provisions of section 112 of Public Law 
86-50 shall be applicable to this project. 
SEC. 112. (a) The Commission is not authorized— 
(1) to enter into any arrangements for the construction or 
operation of electric generating and transmission facilities at the 
Hanford New Production Reactor, or 
(2) to sell any byproduct energy produced incident to the 
operation of the reactor and is directed to withhold from benefi-
cial use and dissipate such byproduct energy, or 
(3) to enter into agreements, as part of such arrangements, to 
lease or contract for the operation of the reactor during periods 
when the reactor is not being operated or maintained for produc-
tion or other Commission purposes, 
unless and until the Commission shall make the determinations 
required by subsection (b). 
(b) Before entering into any arrangement or sale of the type 
described in subsection (a), the Commission shall make the following 
determinations: 
(1) Useable byproduct energy will be produced incident to the 
production of special nuclear material in the reactor in accordance 
with the design of the reactor as originally authorized by 
Congress; 
(2) The sale of byproduct energy could provide a substantial 
financial return to the United States Treasury for the benefit of 
the taxpayers; 
(3) The national defense posture would be improved by the 
enhanced capability for resumption of special nuclear material 
production through non-Federal operation and maintenance of 
the reactor during periods when it is not being operated for 
special nuclear material production. 
(c) All expenses of modifications of the Hanford New Production 
Reactor made at the request of a non-Federal entity, and all expenses 
of constructing and operating the electric energy generating and 
transmission facilities at the New Production Reactor, shall be borne 
by such non-Federal entity. 
(d) Any losses to the Bonneville Power Administration, in con-
nection with the arrangements or sales authorized herein, shall be 
borne by its system customers through rate adjustments. 
(e) The Commission shall not enter into any arrangements for the 
sale of byproduct energy from the Hanford New Production Reactor 
unless it determines that the purchaser has offered fifty per cent 
participation to private organizations and fifty per cent participa-
tion to public organizations on a non-discriminatory basis in the sale 
of electric energy generated therewith. 
(f) No Federal agency may acquire the generating facilities with-
out prior Congressional authorization and in the event of such author-
ization the generating facilities shall be acquired subject to contracts 
then in existence for disposition of the electric energy produced by the 
facilities. 
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(g) Before the Commission enters into any arrangements pursuant 
to'this section, the basis for such arrangements and the determinations 
required by subsection (b), with supporting data, shall be submitted 
to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and a period of forty-five 
days shall elapse: Provided^ hoioever^ That the Joint Committee, after 
having received such documents, may, by majority concurrence in 
writing, waive the conditions of or all or any portion of such forty-
five day period. 
Approved September 26, 1962. 
Review by Joint 
Committee. 
Public Law 87-702 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To provide for the coinage of a medal in recognition of tlie distinguislied services 
of Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
September 26, 1962 
[S. J. Res. 133] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in recognition of the 
distinguished public service and outstanding contribution to the gen-
eral welfare of Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to 
cause to be struck and presented to the estate of the late Speaker Sam 
Rayburn a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions 
to be determined by the Secretary, but to include the phrase "For 
services rendered to the people of the United States". There is author-
ized to be appropriated the sum of $2,600 to carry out the purposes 
of this section. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 
to cause duplicates in bronze of such medal to be struck and sold, under 
such regulations as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the 
cost thereof (including labor). 
The proceeds of the sale of such 
bronze medals shall be reimbursed to the appropriation then current 
for the expenditure of the Bureau of the Mint chargeable for the cost 
of the manufacture of medals. 
Approved September 26, 1962. 
Sam Rayburn. 
Gold medal. 
Public Law 87-703 
AN ACT 
To improve and protect farm income, to reduce costs of farm programs to the 
Federal Government, to reduce the Federal Government's excessive stocks of 
agricultural commodities, to maintain reasonable and stable prices of agricul-
tural commodities and products to consumers, to provide adequate supplies of 
agricultural commodities for domestic and foreign needs, to conserve natural 
resources, and for other purposes. 
September 27, 1962 
[H. R. 12391] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as the "Food and Agriculture Act of 1962". 
Food and Agri-
culture Act of 
1962. 
TITLE I—LAND-USE ADJUSTMENT 
SEC. 101. The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (49 
soii conserva-
Stat. 163), as amended, is further amended as follows: 
Ajiotment^A^t!^"*" 
(1) by repealing subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f),and (g) of amendments, 
section?; 
49 stat. ii48. 
(2) by repealing subsection (a) of section 8; 
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