An Act to authorize appropriations for 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 84-141 (H.R.6795), enacted 07/11/1955

of property. 
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Public Law 141 
CHAPTER 304 
AN ACT 
July 11.1955 
To authorize appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission for acquisition 
[H. R. 6795] 
or condemnation of real property or any facilities, or for plant or facility 
acquisition, construction, or expansion, and for other purposes. 
Be it ermcted 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 t i ( ^ ^ appropria-
Atomic Energy Commission the sum of $26'9,159,000 for acquisition or „<.'^^ti"'"*'***=•» 
condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or " ""^'•'*" 
facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, as follows: 
(a) ATOMIC WEAPONS.—Project 56-a-l, production or development 
plants or facilities, $20,000,000. 
(b) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
1. Project 56-b-l, power reactor development acceleration project, 
$25,000,000. 
2. Project 56-b-2, fast power breeder pilot facility 
(EBR-II), 
!t;l4,850,000. 
3. Project 56-b-3, surface ship reactor facility, $25,000,000. 
4. Project 56-b-4, submarine advanced reactor facility, $23,140,000. 
5. Project 56-b-5, submarine advanced reactor development facili-
ties, Schenectady, New York, $3,100,000. 
6. Project 56-b-6, aircraft nuclear propulsion program plant and 
test area, Arco, Idaho, $13,000,000. 
7. Project 56-b-7, aircraft reactor test plant, $1,437,000. 
8. Project 56-b-8, modifications and expansions to ANP ground 
test plant, Idaho. $1,000,000. 
9. Project 56-D-9, special reactor facilities construction program, 
$2,000,000. 
10. Project 56-b-lO, reactor core test facility, Arco, Idaho, $600,000. 
(c) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.—Project 56-c-l, particle accelerator pro-
gram, $10,000,000. 
(d) 
SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL.— 
1. Project 56-d-l, metallex pilot facility. Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, $1,000,000. 
2. Project 56-d-2, reactor facilities modifications, Hanford, Wash-
ington, $11,900,000. 
3. Project 56-d-3, special reactor facilities equipment, Hanford, 
Washington, $5,600,000. 
4. Project 56-d-4, modifications to separations and processing facili-
ties, Hanford, Washington, $2,560,000. 
5. Project 56-d-5, conversion of pilot plant and facility to produc-
tion plant and facility, Fernald, Ohio, $600,000. 
6. Project 56-d-6, barrier plant addition. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
$2,200,000. 
7. Project 56-d-7, new barrier development plant, Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, $404,000. 
8. Project 56-d-8, expansion of metal recovery facility. Oak Ridge 
National" Laboratory, $370,000. 
(e) 
SOURCE AND OTHER RAW MATERIALS.— 
1. Project o6-e-l, expansion and modification of ore processing 
plant, Monticello, Utah, $1,550,000. 
2. Project 56-e-2, storage sites for vanadium bearing tailings, 
$500,000. 
(f) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
1. Project 56-f-l, art construction project, fiscal year 1956 incre-
ment, $17,873,000. 
2. Project 56-f-2, expansion of weapons material fabrication plant 
and facility, $15,000,000. 
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3. Project 56-f-3, new Sigma Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
$4,015,000. 
4. Project 56-f-4, detonator production plant, $3,750,000. 
5. Project 56-f-o, base construction. Pacific proving 
ground, 
$1,568,000. 
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6. Project 56-f-6, Eocky Flats, Colorado, plant and facilities, 
$1,330,000. 
7. Project 56-f-7, base construction, Nevada test site, $927,000. 
8. Project 56-f-8, addition to technical laboratory shop building, 
Los Alamos, New Mexico, $735,000. 
(g) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
1. Project 56-g-l, engineering test reactor facility, $14,350,000. 
2. Project 56-g-2, reactor training school, Argonne National Lab-
oratory, $712,000. 
3. Project 56-g-3, chemistry cave for radioactive materials, Argonne 
National Laboratory, $448,000. 
4. Project 56-g-4, reactor engineering building addition, Argonne 
National Laboratory, $295,000. 
5. Project 56-g-5, high level chemical development facility. Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory, $280,000. 
6. Project 
56-g-6, research 
reactor, 
Philippine 
Government, 
$500,000.^ 
7. Project 56-g-7, research reactors for the development of peace-
time uses of atomic energy under Agreements for Cooperation, 
$5,000,000. 
(h) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
1. Project 56-h-l, conversion of existing building to development 
plant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, $1,150,000. 
2. Project 56-h-2, fabrication plant for development equipment. 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, $440,000. 
(i) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.—Project 56-i-l, medical research plant 
and facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory, $6,040,000. 
(j) COMMUNITY.— 
1. Project 56-j-l, additional housing units, Monticello, Utah, 
$250,000. 
2. Project 56-J-2, new community hospital, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
$2,900,000. 
3. Project 56-J-3, water and sewer replacements and improvements, 
Richland, Washington, $160,000. 
4. Project 56-J-4, housing program (group 18), Los Alamos, New 
Mexico, $3,500,000. 
(k) SOURCE AND OTHER RAW MATERIALS.—Project 56-k-l, offsite 
access roads, $4,165,000. 
(1) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$17,960,000. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.— 
(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 (j) only if the currently estimated cost 
of that project does not exceed by more than 10 per centum the esti-
mated cost set forth for that project. 
(c) The Commission is authorized to start the project set forth in 
subsection 101 (k) 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 subsec-
tion 101 (1) only if it is in accordance Avith the following: 
1. For community operations, the maximum currently estimated 
cost of any project shall be $100,000 and the maximum currently esti-
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mated 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 
(1) 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 appropriated funds for 
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 purposes. 
SEC. 104. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated funds 
necessary to restore or to replace plants or facilities destroyed or other-
wise seriously damaged, and the Atomic Energy Commission is 
authorized to use funds currently or otherwise available to it for such 
j)urposes. 
SEC. 105. 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 Commis-
sion to accomplish the purposes of this Act such sums of money as may 
be currently available to the Atomic Energy 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 (d), 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 Commission certifies that— 
(a) the new 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 furnish 
from a privately owned plant or facility the product or services 
to be provided in the new project. 
Approved July 11, 1955. 
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Public Law 142 
CHAPTER 305 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of a portion of the Fort Devens Military Reser-
vation, Massachusetts, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
July 11, 1955 
[S. 107] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized to convey to the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to a tract of land comprising sixty-six acres, more or less, together 
with buildings and improvements thereon, being a portion of Fort 
Devens Military Reservation and being the same property now utilized 
by the Massachusetts National Guard under a license granted by the 
Secretary of the Army, subject, however, to reservation in the United 
States of all mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the land author-
ized to be conveyed by this Act. 
SEC, 2. The conveyance of the property identified in section 1 of 
this Act to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be made without 
consideration therefor and upon condition that it shall be used for 
Fort 
D e v e n s 
Military Reserva-
tion, Mass. 
Conveyance. 
Use.