An Act to authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, construction of facilities, and administrative operations and for other purposes
PL 88-113 (H.R.7500), enacted 09/06/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-113-SEPT. 6, 1963 
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Public Law 88-113 
AN A C T 
September 6, 1963 
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Adniinistra- —[H. R. 7500] 
tion for research and development, construction of facilities, and adminis-
trative operations; and for other purposes. 
Be it enncted hy tlie Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby 
National Aero-
rtuthoriz-ed to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Adminfsrr'Luon^''* 
Administration the sum of $5,350,820,400, as follows: 
Aum"rizirion"Act, 
(a) For ''Research and development", $4,119,575,000, of which i964-
amount $20,000,000 is authorized only for implementing Project 
Surveyor-Orbiter as requested by the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration in its budget estimates for fiscal year 1964, and enu-
merated as follows: 
(1) Manned spacecraft systems programs, $1,496,600,000; 
(2) Launch 
vehicle 
and 
propulsion 
systems 
program, 
$1,147,500,000; 
(3) Aerospace medicine program, $11,000,000; 
(4) Integration and checkout program, $125,000,000; 
(5) Systems engineering program, $37,000,000; 
(6) Meteorological satellites program, $63,700,000; 
(7) Communications satellites program, $42,175,000: Provided, 
however, That no part of any funds authorized to be appropriated 
by this Act may be obligated or expended for the furnishing of 
any scientific or technological services for the exclusive benefit of 
any person providing satellite communications services other 
than an agency of the United States Government, except at the 
request of such person and on a reimbursable basis; 
(8) Industrial applications program, $3,500,000; 
(9) Geophysics and astronomy program, $194,400,000; 
(10) Lunar and planetary exploration program, $274,400,000; 
(11) Bioscience program, $21,200,000; 
(12) Launch vehicle development program, $127,700,000; 
(13) Facility, 
training, 
and 
research 
grants 
program, 
$40,000,000; 
(14) Space vehicle systems program, $53,462,000; 
(15) Electronic systems program, $30,362,000; 
(16) Human factor systems program, $13,200,000; 
(17) Nuclear electric systems program, $68,768,000; 
(18) Nuclear rockets program, $94,187,000; 
(19) Chemical propulsion program, $24,497,000; 
(20) Space power program, $16,524,000; 
(21) Aeronautics program, $16,200,000; 
(22) Tracking and data acquisition program, $218,200,000. 
(b) For "Construction of facilities", including land acquisitions, 
$713,060,400 as follows: 
(1) Ames 
Research 
Center, 
Moffett 
Field, 
California, 
$11,044,000. 
(2) Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, $1,157,000. 
(3) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 
$17,032,500. 
(4) 
Jet 
Propulsion 
Laboratory, 
Pasadena, 
California, 
$2,998,200. 
^5) Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, $8,204,700. 
(6) Launch Operations Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 
$284,916,000. 
(7) Lewis Research Center, Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, 
$18,634,000. 
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STAT. 
Research and 
development. 
Report to con-
gressional com-
mittees. 
Scientific con-
sultations. 
Construction of 
facilities. 
(8) Manned Spacecraft Center. Houston, Texas, $v^5,102,000. 
(9) Marshall Space Flight 
Center. Pluntsville, Alabama, 
$28,980,000. 
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, 
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(10) Michoud Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana, $8,688,000. 
(11) Mississippi Test Facility, Mississippi, $100,196,000. 
(12) Nuclear Rocket Development Station, Nevada, $15,650,000. 
(13) Various locations, $159,953,000. 
(14) Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia, $505,000. 
(15) Facility planning and design not otherwise provided for. 
$20,000,000. 
(c) For "Administrative operations", $518,185,000. 
(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 
additional research facilities; and title to such facilities shall be vested 
in the United States unless the Administrator determines that the 
)iational 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 Adminis-
trator 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 develop-
ment" pursuant to this Act may be used for construction of any major 
facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, 
exceeds $250,000, unless the Administrator or his designee has notified 
the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Conmiittee 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, any amount appro-
priated for "Research and development" or for "Construction of facil-
ities" may remain available without fiscal year limitation. 
(f) Appropriations made pursuant to subsection 1(c) may be used, 
but not to exceed $35,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinary 
expenses upon the 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 af any new facility the estimated cost of 
Avhich, including collateral equipment, exceeds $100,000. 
(h) No part of the funds authorized by this section may be expended 
for the establishment of an Electronic Research Center unless the Ad-
ministrator has transmitted to the Committee on Aeronautical and 
Space Sciences of the Senate and to the Committee on Science and 
Astronautics of the House of Representatives a detailed study of the 
geographic location of, the need for, and the nature of, the proposed 
Center, and (1) each such committee has transmitted to the Admin-
istrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection 
to the establishment of such Center, or (2) forty-five days have passed 
after the transmittal by the Administrator of such study to those 
committees. 
(i) Until such time as the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration shall establish uniform design criteria and construction 
standards for facilities for which appropriations are authorized pur-
suant to this Act, the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion shall utilize for such facilities design criteria and construction 
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standards established either by the (xeneral Services Administration, 
the United States Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, or the United 
States Araiy Corps of Engineers. 
SEC. 2. Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the amounts 
prescribed in paragraphs (1), (2), (3) (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), 
(10), (11), (12), (13), and (14), of subsection 1(b) may in the dis-
cretion of the Administrator 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 para-
graphs shall not exceed a total of $693,060,400. 
SEC. 3. Not to exceed 2 per centum of the funds appropriated pur- 
Transfers of 
suant to subsection 1(a) hereof may be transferred to the "Construe- ^""^s. 
tion of facilities" appropriation, and, when so transferred, together 
with $30,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to subsection 
1(b) hereof (ether than funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph 
(15) 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 Admin-
istrator 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 authorization 
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 
I)reparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. 
No portion of Report to con-
such sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to construct, gressionai com-
expand, or modify laboratories and other installations unless (A) a ™ 
period of thirty days has passed after the Administrator or his designee 
has transmitted 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) no amount appropriated pursuant to this Act may be used 
for any program in excess of the amovmt 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 Ibeen presented to or requested of 
either such committee, 
unless (A) a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by 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 the expiration of 
such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the 
effect that such comniittee has no objection to the proposed action. 
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Transfer of 
funds. 
Report to Con-
gressional Com-
mittees. 
72 Stat. 438. 
42 u s e 2459. 
Short title. 
SKC. 5. The Administrator is hereby authorized to transfer, witli 
the appi'oval of the Bureau of the Budget, funds appropriated pursu-
ant to this Act (other than funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph 
(15) of subsection 1(b)), to any other agency of the Government 
"whenever the Administrator determines such transfer necessary for 
the efficient accomplishment of the objectives for which the funds have 
been appropriated. 
Not more than $20,000,000 of the funds authorized 
by this Act may be transferred by the Administrator under this section, 
and no transfer in excess of $250,000 shall be made under this section 
unless the Administrator has transmitted to the Committee on Aero-
nautical and Space Sciences of the Senate and to the Committee on 
Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives a written 
statement concerning the amount and purpose of, and the reason for, 
such transfer, and (1) each svich committee has transmitted to the 
Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has 
no objection to that transfer, or (2) thirty days have passed after the 
transmittal by the Administrator of such statement to those com-
mittees. 
SEC. 6. Section 807 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 
1958 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sub-
section : 
"(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authorization 
of any appropriation to the Administration shall expire (unless an 
earlier expiration is specifically provided) at the close of the third 
fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the authorization was 
enacted, to the extent that sucli appropriation has not theretofore 
actually been made.'" 
SEC. 7. This Act may be cited as the "National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration Authorization Act, 1964". 
Approved September 6, 1963. 
Public Law 88-114 
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AN ACT 
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q\y remove the percentage limitations on retirement of enlisted men of the Coast 
Gruard, and for other purposes. 
Coast Guard. 
Enlisted men, 
retirement. 
63 Stat. 521. 
63 Stat, 522-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title 14, United 
States "Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 357(c) is amended by striking out the words "or any 
enlisted man so retired whose average marks in conduct during his 
service in the Coast Guard were not less than 9 7 ^ per centum of the 
maximum, or any enlisted man so retired who shall have been both so 
cited and shall have received such average marks,". 
(2) Section 358 is repealed. 
(3) The analysis of chapter 11 is amended by striking out the 
following item: 
"358. Limitation of retirements." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by subsection (1) of section 1 of this 
Act does not apply to any enlisted man in service on the effective date 
of this Act. 
Approved September 6, 1963.