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 86-457 (H.R.11713), enacted 05/13/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-457-MAY 13, I960 
[74 STAT. 
Public Law 86-457 
May 13. 1960 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 11713] 
ip^ 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. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
SEC. 
101. PLANT OR FACILITY ACQUISITION OR CONSTRUCTION.— 
Atomic Energy There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy 
^Appropriations. Commissioii in accordance with the provisions of section 261a. (1) of 
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the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum of $211,476,000 
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.— 
Project 61-a-l, modifications to production and supporting installa-
tions, $10,000,000. 
Project 61-a-2, billet production plant, $1,800,000. 
Project 61-a-3, heat treatment and inspection modifications, Fern-
aid, Ohio, $2,500,000. 
Project 61-a-4, development laboratory building. Oak Ridge, Ten-
nessee, $766,000. 
Project 61-a-5, plutonium reclamation plant, Hanford, Washing-
ton, $2,900,000. 
Project 61-a-6, moderator purification improvements. Savannah 
River, South Carolina, $2,500,000. 
(b) 
ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 61-b-l, weapons production, development, and test installa-
tions, $10,000,000. 
Project 61-b-2, high-velocity test track, Sandia Base, New Mexico, 
$2,100,000. 
Project 61-b-3, special metals fabrication plant, $3,000,000. 
(c) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 61-c-l, contaminated waste plant, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
$2,000,000. 
(d) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 61-d-l, additions and modifications to Chemical Engi-
neering Building, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $2,000,000. 
Project 61-d-2, special purpose test installation addition, Santa 
Susana, California, $1,200,000. 
Project 61-d-3i, technical space for SPERT, National Reactor 
Testing Station, Idaho, $500,000. 
Project 61-d-4, critical building, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 
New York, $600,000. 
Project 61-d-5, fast reactor core test installation, Los Alamos 
Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $6,900,000. 
Project 61-d-6, plutonium fuel service and development building, 
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $600,000. 
Project 61-d-7, test installation for Project Rover, $20,000,000. 
Project 61-d-8, test installation for Project Pluto, $15,000,000. 
Project 61-d-9, advanced test reactor, $24,000,000. 
Project 61-d-lO, power reactor plants for the Antarctic, $13,000,000. 
(e) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 61-e-l, additions and modifications, MTR-ETR 
area, 
National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, $800,000. 
Project 61-e-2, site utilities, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New 
York, $1,250,000. 
Project 
61-e-3, quarters 
for 
visiting scientists, 
Brookhaven 
National Laboratory, New York, $550,000. 
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(f) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Projecf 61-f-l, bubble chamber house, Brookhaveii National Labor-
atory, New York, $1,660,000. 
Project 
61-f-2, 
Princeton-Pennsylvania 
accelerator 
addition, 
Princeton, New Jersey, $10,820,000. 
Project 61-f-3, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $1,085,000. 
Project 61-f-4, high flux isotope reactor, Oak Kidge National 
Laboratory, Tennessee, $12,000,000. 
Project 61-f-5, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, California, $500,000. 
Project 61-f-6, major bevatron improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
l^aboratory, California, $9,600,000. 
Project 61-f-7, design and engineering, linear electron accelerator, 
$3,000,000. 
Project 61-f-8, materials research laboratory. University of Illi-
nois, $5,600,000. 
Project 61-f-9, radiation laboratory. University of Notre Dame, 
$2,200,000. 
(g) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 61-g-l, metallurgy building extension, Brookhaven Na-
tional Laboratory, New York, $655,000. 
Project 61-g-2, addition to cyclotron building, Lawrence Radia-
tion Laboratory, California, $500,000. 
(h) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.— 
Project 61-h-l, installations for support of biomedical research in 
atomic energy, $5,000,000. 
(i) COMMUNITY.— 
Project 61-i-l, real estate development, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
$435,000. 
Project 61-i-2, elementary school addition, Los Alamos, New 
Mexico, $145,000. 
Project 61-i-3, steam transmission line, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 
$135,000. 
(j) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$34,175,000. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.—(a) The Commission is authorized to start 
any project set forth in subsections 101 (a), (b), (d), (f), and (h), 
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 (c), (e), (g), and (i), 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 a project under sub-
section 101 (j) 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 (j) 
shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that subsection by more 
than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. ADVANCE 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 
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Commission is authorized to use funds currently or otherwise available 
to it for such purposes. 
SEC. 
104. RESTORATION 
OR 
REPLACEMENT.—There 
are 
hereby 
authorized 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 otherwise 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. SUBSTITUTIONS.—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 
subsections 101 (a), (b), and (c) 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 by changes in weapon character-
istics 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 PROJECTS.— (a) Section 101 
(d) of Public Law 84-506, as amended, is further amended by strik-
ing therefrom "Project 57-d-lj high energy accelerator, $27,000,000" 
and substituting therefor "Project 57-d-l, zero gradient synchrotron, 
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $42,000,000." 
73 Stat. 82. 
(b) Public Law 86-50 is amended by striking out the figure "$5,000,-
000" for project 60-e-12, alterations to Shippingport reactor facilities, 
and substituting therefor the figure "$9,000,000''. 
iz Stat. 81. 
g^c. 108. PROJECT RESCISSIONS.—(a) Public Law 86-50 is amended 
by rescinding therefrom authorization for a project, except for funds 
heretofore obligated, as follows: 
Project 60-C-2, special processing plant, phase II, Mound Labora-
tory, Ohio, $3,800,000. 
72 Stat. 490. 
(^^ Public Law 85-590, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for projects, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 59-b-4, special processing plant, Mound Laboratory, Ohio, 
$2,000j000. 
Project 59-C-8, lineal acceleration tester, Livermore, California, 
$390,000. 
Project 59-g-3, gamma process development irradiator, $1,600,000. 
71 Stat. 403. 
(^,) Public Law 85-162, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for projects, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 58-b-5, additions to scrap plants, various sites, $1,500,000. 
Project 58-C-2, weapons special component plant, $6,000,000. 
70 Stat. 127. 
(^^^ Public Law 84-506, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for a project except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 57-a-7, modifications to existing production facilities for 
increased efficiency and safety, Hanford, Washington, $3,000,000. 
70 Stat. 128. 
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SEC. 109. COOPERATIVE POWER REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.— 
(a) Section 111 of Public Law 85-162, as amended, is further amended 
by striking out the date "June 30, 1960," in clause (3) of subsection 
(a) and inserting in lieu thereof the date "June 30, 1961." 
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic 
Energy Commission the sum of $40,000,000 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 
and conditions provided in Sections 110 and 112 of Public Law 86-50. 
^s stat. SA. 86. 
The maximum amount of the program authorization, specified in sub-
section 110(b) of Public Law 86-50, is increased by $45,000,000. In 
addition to the amount authorized under subsection 110(c) of Public 
Law 86-50, the Commission is authorized to use funds not to exceed 
$15,000,000 in the aggregate, to provide research and development 
assistance in support of unsolicited proposals from the utility industry 
to construct nuclear powerplants. 
(c) Section 110 of Public Law 86-50 is amended by deleting the 
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word "two" in the first sentence of subsection (d). 
SEC. 110. COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM W I T H 
CANADA.—There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Com-
mission, in accordance with the provisions of section 261(a) (2) of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum of $5,000,000 for use 
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in a cooperative program 01 research and development in connection 
with heavy water moderated nuclear powerplants to be conducted 
under the Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Civil Uses of 
Atomic Energy Between the Government of the United States of 
America and the Government of Canada, signed on the 15th day of 
June 1955, as now or hereafter modified. 
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SEC. 111. DESIGN AND ENGINEERING STUDIES.—The Commission is 
authorized within its discretion to proceed with design and engineering 
studies to include, but not be limited to, the following: 
(a.) Facilities for food irradiation; 
(b) Power reactor of steam-cooled type. 
The Commission may submit reports on studies under this section to 
Reports. 
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy by April 1, 1961. 
Approved May 13, 1960. 
Public Law 86-458 
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May 13, 1960 
To provide for the conveyance to Orange County, California, of all right, title, 
[H. R. 5349] 
and interest of the United States in and to certain real projierty situated in 
Orange County, California. 
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Admin- ^^Jf"^' county, 
istrator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey to 
conveyance. 
Orange County, California, all right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to the real property more particularly described as lot 24, 
block D, of tract numbered 18, first addition to Harper, as shown on 
the map recorded in book 9, page 20, of miscellaneous maps, records 
of. Orange County, California, including any improvements thereon. 
Approved May 13, 1960.