An Act to authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, construction of facilities, and administrative operation, and for other purposes
PL 89-528 (H.R.14324), enacted 08/05/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89.528-AUG. 5, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
trace their proud ancestry, national medals in commemoration of 
such anniversary. 
SEC. 2. Such medals shall be of such sizes, materials, and designs, 
and shall be so inscribed, as the corporation may determine with the 
approval of the Secretary. 
SEC. 3. Not more than one million of such medals may be produced. 
Production shall be in such quantities, not less than two thousand, as 
may be ordered by the corporation, but no work may be commenced on 
any order unless the Secretary has received security satisfactory to him 
for the payment of the cost or the production of such order. Such cost 
shall include labor, material, dies, use of machinery, and overhead 
expenses, as determined by the Secretary. No medals may be pro-
duced pursuant to this Act after December 31,1967. 
SEC. 4. Upon receipt of payment for such medals in the amount of 
the cost thereof as determined pursuant to section 3, the Secretary shall 
deliver the medals as the corporation may request. 
Approved August 5, 1966. 
Public Law 89-528 
August 5, 1966 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 14324] 
rp^j authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration for research and development, construction of facilities, and admin-
istrative operations, and for other purposes. 
National AerO' 
nautic s and Space 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of. Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby 
Administration 
authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Authorization Act, Administration the sum of $5,000,419,000, as follows: 
(a) For "Research and development," $4,248,600,000, for the fol-
lowing programs: 
(1) Gemini, $40,600,000; 
(2) Apollo, $2,974,200,000; 
(3) Advanced missions, $8,000,000; 
(4) Physics and astronomy, $129,900,000; 
(5) Lunar and planetary exploration, $210,900,000; 
(6) Bioscience, $35,400,000; 
(7) Meteorological satellites, $43,600,000; 
(8) Communication and applications technology satellites, 
$26,400,000; 
(9) Launch vehicle development, $33,700,000; 
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(b) For 
Launch vehicle procurement, $142,750,000; 
Space vehicle systems, $36,000,000; 
Electronics systems, $36,800,000; 
Human factor systems, $17,000,000; 
Basic research, $23,000,000; 
Space power and electric propulsion systems, $44,500,000; 
Nuclear rockets, $53,000,000; 
Chemical propulsion, $41,000,000; 
Aeronautics, $35,000,000; 
Tracking and data acquisition, $270,850,000; 
Sustaining university program, $41,000,000; 
Technology utilization, $5,000,000. 
"Construction of facilities," including land acquisitions. 
$95,919,000, as follows: 
(1) Electronics Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
$7,500,000; 
(2) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 
$710,000; 
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(3) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, $350,000; 
(4) John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Kennedy Space 
Center, Florida, $37,876,000; 
(5) r^an^ley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, $6,100,000; 
(6) Lewis Research Center, Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, 
$16,000,000 ; 
(7) Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, $12,800,000; 
(8) Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans and Slidell 
Louisiana, $700,000; 
(9) Mississippi Test Facility, Mississippi, $1,700,000; 
(10) Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia, $205,000; 
(11) Various locations, $6,478,000; 
(12) Facility planning and design not otherwise provided for, 
$5,500,000. 
(c) For "Administrative operations," $655,900,000. 
(d) Appropriations for "Research and development" may be used 
(1) for any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of land) 
which may be required for the performance of research and develop-
ment contracts and (2) for grants to nonprofit institutions of higher 
education, or to nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is the 
conduct of scientific research, for purchase or construction of addi-
tional research facilities; and title to such facilities shall be vested in 
the United States unless the Administrator determines that the na-
tional program of aeronautical and space activities will best be served 
by vesting title in any such grantee institution or organization. Each 
such grant shall be made under such conditions as the Administrator 
shall determine to be required to insure that the United States will 
receive therefrom benefit adequate to justify the making of that grant. 
None of the funds appropriated for "Research and development" pur- m^o^flclutiTs"^ 
suant to this Act may be used for construction of any major facility, 
PHor notice to 
the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, exceeds congress. 
$250,000, unless the Administrator or his designee has notified the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Sen-
ate and the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space 
Sciences of the Senate of the nature, location, and estimated cost of 
such facility. 
(e) When so specified in an appropriation Act, (1) any amount 
appropriated for "Research and development" or for "Construction of 
facilities" may remain available without fiscal year limitation, and (2) 
maintenance and operation of facilities, and support services contracts 
may be entered into under the "Administrative operations" appropria-
tion for periods not in excess of twelve months beginning at any time 
during the fiscal year. 
(f) Appropriations made pursuant to subsection 1(c) may be used, gj^atk."!''''°"' 
but not to exceed $35,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinary 
expenses upon tlie approval or authority of the Administrator and his 
determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers 
of the Government. 
(g) No part of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 1 (c) 
for maintenance, repairs, alterations, and minor construction shall be 
used for the construction of any new facility the estimated cost of 
which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $100,000. 
(h) When so specified in an appropriation Act, any appropriation 
authorized under this Act to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration may initially be used, during the fiscal year 1967, to 
finance work or activities for which funds have been provided in any 
other appropriation available to the Administration and appropriate 
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Transfer of 
funds. 
Reports to 
Congress. 
adjustments between such appropriations shall subsequently be made 
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. 
Cost variations. 
g^c. 2. Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts 
prescribed in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), 
(10), and (11), of subsection 1 (b) may, in the discretion of the Admin-
istrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, be 
varied upward 5 per centum to meet unusual cost variations, but the 
total cost of all work authorized under such paragraphs shall not 
exceed a total of $90,419,000. 
SEC. 3. Not to exceed one-half of 1 per centum of the funds appro-
priated pursuant to subsection 1(a) hereof may be transferred to the 
"Construction of facilities" appropriation, and, when so transferred, 
together with $10,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to sub-
section 1(b) hereof (other than funds appropriated pursuant to 
paragraph (12) of such subsection) shall be available for expenditure 
to construct, expand, or modify laboratories and other installations 
at any location (including locations specified in subsection 1(b)), if 
(1) the Administrator determines such action to be necessary because 
of changes in the national program of aeronautical and space activities 
or new scientific or engineering developments, and (2) he determines 
that deferral of such action until the enactment of the next authoriza-
tion Act would be inconsistent with the interest of the Nation in aero-
nautical and space activities. The funds so made available may be 
expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install perma-
nent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, site prep-
aration, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. 
No portion of such 
sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to construct, 
expand, or modify laboratories and other installations unless (A) a 
period of thirty days has passed after the Administrator or his des-
ignee has transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
and to the President of the Senate and to the Committee on Science 
and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and to the Committee 
on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate a written report 
containing a full and complete statement concerning (1) the nature 
of such construction, expansion, or modification, (2) the cost thereof 
including the cost of any real estate action pertaining thereto, and 
(3) the reason why such construction, expansion, or modification is 
necessary in the national interest, or (B) each such committee before 
the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator 
written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the 
proposed action. 
SEC. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act— 
(1) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used 
for any program deleted by the Congress from requests as origi-
nally made to either the House Committee on Science and Astro-
nautics or the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space 
Sciences, 
(2) na amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used 
for any program in excess of the amount actually authorized for 
that particular program by sections 1(a) and 1(c), and 
(3) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used 
for any program which has not been presented to or requested of 
either such committee, 
unless (A) a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate and each such committee of notice given by the Administrator 
or his designee containing a full and complete statement of the action 
proposed to be taken and the facts and circumstances relied upon in 
support of such proposed action, or (B) each such committee before 
Restrictions. 
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the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator 
written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the 
proposed action. 
SEC. 5. It is the sense of Congress that it is in the national interest au^°^^^^^'[.^/ 
that consideration be given to geographical distribution of Federal funds. 
research funds whenever feasible, and that the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration should explore ways and means of dis-
tributing its research and developriient funds whenever feasible. 
SEC. 6. This Act mav be cited as the "National Aeronautics and 
^^°'^ ""^• 
Space Administration Authorization Act, 1967". 
Approved August 5, 1966. 
Public Law 89-529 
AN ACT 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the award of trophies for 
the recognition of special accomplishments related to the armed forces, and 
for other purposes. 
August 11, 1966 
[H. R. 13374] 
Armed Forces. 
Accomplish-
ments, recognition. 
10 u s e 1121-
1124. 
Be if enacted bi/ the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title 10, United 
States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) Chapter 57 is amended by adding the following new section at 
the end thereof: 
^'§ 1125. Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies 
"The Secretary of Defense may— 
"(1) award medals, trophies, badges, and similar devices to 
members, units, or agencies of an armed force under his jurisdic-
tion for excellence in accomplishments or competitions related to 
that armed force; and 
"(2) provide badges or buttons in recognition of special 
service, good conduct, and discharge under conditions other than 
dishonorable." 
(2) The analysis of chapter 57 is amended by adding the following 
new item: 
"1125. Recognition for accomplishments: award of trophies." 
(3) Chapter 631 is amended by repealing section 7218. 
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(4) The analysis of chapter 631 is amended by striking out the 7230. 
following item: 
"7218. Recognition for accomplishments, special service, and good conduct" 
Approved August 11, 1966. 
Public Law 89-530 
AN ACT 
To increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the development of the 
Arkansas Post National Memorial. 
August 11, 1966 
[H.R. 12389] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the rlai 
Arkansas Post National Memorial, in the State of Arkansas", 
Appropriation 
approved July 6,1960 (74 Stat. 334; Public Law 86-595), is amended 
by striking out "$125,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$550,000". 
Approved August 11, 1966. 
Arkansas Post 
National Memo-
increase. 
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