An Act making appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, and for other purposes
PL 86-164 (H.R.8283), enacted 08/18/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-164-AUG. 18, 1959 
United States is authorized and requested to issue, on the occasion of 
the death of the last surviving veteran of the War Between the States, 
a proclamation calling for the flag of the United States to be flown at 
half-staff, for such period of time as the President deems appropriate, 
in commemoration of the death of all veterans of the War Between 
the States. 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
363 
Public Law 86-163 
AN ACT 
To increase and extend the special milk program for children. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of RepreHentatiiWH of the 
United jStates of America in Congress assembled^ That the first sen-
tence of Public Law 85-478 (72 Stat. 276), is amended to read as 
follows: "That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1958, not to exceed 
$78,000,000, and for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1959, not to 
exceed $81,000,000, and for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960, not 
to exceed $84,000,000, of the funds of the (^ommodity Credit Corpora-
tion shall lae used to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children 
(1) in nonprofit schools of high school grade and under; and (2) in 
nonprofit nursery schools, child care centers, settlement houses, sum-
mer camps, and similar nonprofit institutions devoted to the care and 
training of children.'' 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
August 18, 1959 
[S. 1289] 
Milk program. 
Extension. 
7 u s e 1446 note. 
Ante, p. 15. 
Public Law 86-164 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1960, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representati'ves of the 
United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled^ That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960, for the 
Atomic Energy Commission, and for other purposes, namely: 
ATOMIC ENERGY 
COMMISSION 
August 18, 1959 
[H. R. 8283] 
A t o m i c Energy 
C o m m i s sion Ap-
p r o p r i a t i o n Act, 
1960. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary operating expenses of the Commission in carrying 
out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
including the employment of aliens; rental in or near the District 
of Columbia; services authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 
2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); purchase of equipment; purchase, main-
tenance, and operation of aircraft; publication and dissemination of 
atomic information; purchase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; pur-
chase of newspapers and periodicals (not to exceed $6,000) ; official 
entertainment expenses (not to exceed $30,000) ; not to exceed 
$3,550,000 for expenses of travel; reimbursement of the General 
Services Administration for security guard services; not to exceed 
$52,750,000 for personal services; purchase (not to exceed three 
hundred and ninety-six, of which three hundred and sixty-six are 
for replacement only, including one at not to exceed $4,C00) and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; $2,389,114,000, together with the 
60 Stat. 810. 
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[73 STAT. 
unexpended balances, as of June-30,1959, of prior year appropriations 
made available under this head to the Atomic Energy Commission, 
and, in addition, any moneys (except sums received from disposal 
of property under the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955 (42 
69 Stat. 472. 
U.S.C. 2301)) reccivcd by the Commission, notwithstanding the pro-
visions of section 3617 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 484) : 
Provided^ That of such amounts $100,000 may be expended for objects 
of a confidential nature and in any such case the certificate of the 
Commission as to the amount of the expenditure and that it is deemed 
inadvisable to specify the nature thereof shall be deemed a sufficient 
voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: Pro-
vided further^ That from this appropriation transfers of sums may 
be made to other agencies of the Government for the performance 
of the work for which this appropriation is made, and in such cases 
the sums so transferred may be merged with the appropriation to 
which transferred: Provided further^ That of the funds appropriated 
herein, $2,000,000 shall be transferred to and merged with funds 
appropriated to the National Science Foundation: Provided 
further^ 
That no part of this appropriation shall be used in connection with 
the payment of a fixed fee to any contractor or firm of contractors 
engaged under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract or contracts at any 
installation of the Commission, where that fee for community man-
agement is at a rate in excess of $90,000 per annum, or for the 
operation of a transportation system where that fee is at a rate in 
excess of $45,000 per annum: Provided 
further, That in the event 
the Commission deems it desirable to design and construct at a 
(Commission installation any power reactor prototype for which 
cooperative arrangements are authorized under the Commission's 
Ante. p. 81. 
authorization Act for the fiscal year 1960, as part of the cooperative 
power reactor demonstration program, and for which direct con-
struction by the Commission is authorized as an alternative to a 
cooperative arrangement, not to exceed $16,000,000 of the amount 
appropriated herein may be transferred to the appropriation for 
"Plant acquisition and construction". 
PLANT ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION 
For expenses of the Commission, as authorized by law, in connec-
tion with the purchase and construction of plant and other expenses 
incidental thereto necessary in carrying out the purposes of the Atomic 
4 2^usc^2oii Energy Act of 1954, as amended, including the acquisition or con-
note- 
demnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility 
acquisition, construction, or expansion; and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; $262,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
mSerfXTetcl °^ 
^ ^ y appropriation available under this or any other Act to the 
Atomic Energy Commission may initially be used subject to limita-
tions in this Act during the fiscal year 1960 to finance the procure-
ment of materials, services, or other costs which are a part of work or 
activities for which funds have been provided in any other appropria-
tion available to the Commission: Provided, That appropriate trans-
fers or adjustments between such appropriations shall subsequently 
be made for such costs on the basis of actual application determined 
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. 
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Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation herein may be 
transferred to any other such appropriation, but no such appropria-
tion, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be increased by more 
than 5 per centum by any such transfers, and any such transfers shall 
be reported promptly to the Appropriations Committees of the House 
and Senate. 
No part of any appropriation herein shall be used to confer a fel-
lowship on any person who advocates or who is a member of an 
organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Govern-
ment of the United States by force or violence or with respect to 
whom the Commission finds, upon investigation and report oy the 
Civil Service Commission on the character, associations, and loyalty 
of whom, that reasonable grounds exist for belief that such person 
is disloyal to the Government of the United States: Provided^ That 
any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or 
party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United 
States by force or violence and accepts employment or a fellowship 
the salary, wages, stipend, grant, or expenses for which are paid from 
any appropriation contained herein shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned 
for not more than one year, or both: Provided further^ That the above 
penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
This Act may be cited as the "Atomic Energy Commission Appro-
priation Act, 1960". 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
Report. 
R e s tr i ction on 
fellowships. 
Penalty. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-165 
AN ACT 
To permit the processing of certain applications under the Small Tracts Act for 
lands included in the Caribou and Targhee National Forests by the Act of 
August 14, 1958. 
August 18, 1959 
[H. R. 3682] 
43 u s e 682a. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 4, sub- gjfe^^^N^aUoI^al 
section (a), of the Act of August 14,1958 (72 Stat. 607,608), is hereby Forests, applied 
amended by substituting a comma for the period at the end thereof '^°"^" 
and adding the following: "nor to prejudice the sale or lease by the 
Secretary of the Interior under the Act of June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 
609), as amended, of lands for which applications under that Act 
were pending on March 28, 1957, and of one additional tract, not 
exceeding five acres, in either the south half of the northwest quarter 
of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, or the north half of 
the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, 
both of section 17, township 2 south, range 46 east, Boise meridian, 
if application for such additional tract be made not later than July 1, 
1960, by an applicant whose application under R.S. 2455, as amended 
(43 U.S.C. 1171) for lands within the west half of the said section 17 
was pending on March 28,1957." 
SEC. 2. Section 1 of this Act shall be effective as of the date of the 
Act which it amends. 
SEC. 3. The intent of the Congress in enacting this Act is that the 
applications identified in the amendment to section 4 of the Act of 
August 14, 1958, which is made by section 1 of this Act, shall be 
granted or rejected, in whole or in part, on the basis of the same 
standards which would have been applied in granting or rejecting 
them had the Act of August 14, 1958, not been enacted. 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
Effective date. 
72 Stat. 608.