An Act making appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes.
PL 90-131 (H.R.12474), enacted 11/08/1967

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PUBLIC LAW 90-131-NOV. 8, 1967 
[81 STAT. 
Ante, p. 380. 
70A Stat. 413; 
71 Stat. 385. 
70A Stat. 494. 
Retirement 
deferment. 
70A Stat. 172. 
Corps who is serving in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade) on 
the effective date of this Act may not be discharged under that section 
until June 30 of the second fiscal year following the fiscal year in 
which this Act is approved. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer of the 
Regular Navy in the Nurse Corps who is serving in the grade of 
lieutenant on the effective date of this Act and who on that date has 
completed more than thirteen years of active commissioned service 
may not be involuntarily discharged under section 6396 of title 10, 
United States Code, as amended by this Act but shall, unless sooner 
selected for promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander, be 
retired on June 30 of the fiscal year in which she completes at least 
twenty years of active commissioned service. Each officer retired 
under this subsection shall be retired with the retired grade and pay 
prescribed in section 6396(c) of title 10, United States Code, as it 
existed before the enactment of this Act. 
(e) For five years following the effective date of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Air Force may suspend the operation of any provision 
of law pertaining to the mandatory retirement, discharge, separation, 
or transfer from an active status of an Air Force female officer, 
except an officer designated under section 8067, title 10, United States 
Code, to perform professional functions other than as an Air Force 
nurse or as an Air Force medical specialist. 
(f) Until July 1, 1972, when the needs of the service require, the 
Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of 
the Air Force may convene annually boards of officers to consider 
officers of the Army Nurse Corps, officers of the Navy Nurse Corps, or 
Air Force nurses, respectively, who otherwise would be required to be 
retired or separated under this Act within the calendar or fiscal year 
in which the board is convened. Upon the recommendation of such a 
board, the Secretary concerned may defer the separation or retirement 
of such an officer for a term of not more than five years, unless recom-
mended for further deferment by a subsequent board of officers, and 
in any case not beyond the month following her attaining age sixty 
or July 1, 1976, whichever may be earlier. Officers whose separation 
or retirement is so deferred shall be additional to the numbers of officers 
authorized by sections 3202,3211,8202, and 8211, title 10, United States 
Code. 
Approved November 8, 1967. 
November 8, 1967 
[H. R. 12474] 
Public Law 90-131 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for 
the fiscal year ending June 30,1968, and for other purposes. 
National Aero-
nautics and 
Space Adminis-
tration Appro-
priation Act, 
1968. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums ar^ appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration for the fiscal year ending June 30,1968, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-131-NOV. 8, 1967 
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE 
ADMINISTRATION 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including 
research, development, operations, services, minor construction, sup-
plies, materials, equipment; maintenance, repair, and alteration of 
real and personal property; and purchase, hire, maintenance, and 
operation of other than administrative aircraft necessary for the 
conduct and support of aeronautical and space research and develop-
ment activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
$8,925,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES 
For advance planning, design, and construction of facilities for 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for the 
acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law, 
$35,900,000, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses of operation of the National Aeronautics 
and Sj^ace Administration, not otherwise provided for, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901; 
80 Stat. 299); minor construction; supplies, materials, services, and j,^ll^^^^206^'' 
equipment; awards; purchase of not to exceed three and hire, mainte- 
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nance and operation of administrative aircraft; purchase and hire of 
motor vehicles (including purchase of not to exceed twenty-three 
passenger motor vehicles, for replacement only); and maintenance, 
repair, and alteration of real and personal property; $628,000,000: 
Provided, That contracts may be entered into under this appropria-
tion for maintenance and operation of facilities, and for other services, 
to be provided during the next fiscal year. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation made available to 
Transfer o
f ap-
tlie National Aeronautics and Space Administration by this Act may 
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be transferred to any other such appropriation. 
Not to exceed $35,000 of the appropriation "Administrative Opera- 
scientific con-
tions" in this Act for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- ^aordinary Ix-
tion shall be available for scientific consultations or extraordinary penses. 
expense, to be expended upon the approval or authority of the Adminis-
trator and his determination shall be final and conclusive. 
Appropriations contained in this Act shall be subject to the general 
provisions contained in titles I and III of the Independent Offices and 
Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriation Act, 
1968. 
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^^^me.pp.341. 
This Act may be cited as the "National Aeronautics and Space 
short title. 
Administration Appropriation Act, 1968". 
Approved Novemlber 8, 1967.