An Act to authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes
PL 91-44 (H.R.12167), enacted 07/11/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-44-JULY 11, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
July 11, 1969 
[H.R. 12167] 
Atomic Energy 
Commission. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
77 Stat. 88. 
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Public Law 91-44 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations to 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. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with the provisions of 
section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended: 
(a) For "Operating expenses'', $1,967,050,000, not to exceed 
$121,000,000 in operating costs for the High Energy Physics program 
category. 
(b) For "Plant and capital equipment", including construction, 
acquisition, or modification of facilities, including land acquisition; 
and acquisition and fabrication of capital equipment not related to 
construction, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following: 
(1) SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
Project 70-1-a, waste storage tanks and tank farm waste handling 
systems, Richland, Washington, $10,000,000. 
Project 70-1-b, bedrock waste storage (AE and site selection drill-
ing only). Savannah River, South Carolina, $1,300,000. 
Project 70-1-c, waste encapsulation and storage facilities (AE 
only), Richland, Washington, $1,200,000. 
Project 70-1-d, contaminated water control facilities. Savannah 
River, South Carolina, $1,500,000. 
Project 70-1-e, equipment test facility, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
$5,700,000. 
(2) SPECIAL XucLEARMATERIALS.— 
Project 70-2-a, rebuilding of gaseous ditfusion plant cooling tower, 
Portsmouth, Ohio, $1,000,000. 
Project 70-2-b, improvement of gaseous diffusion plant electrical 
distribution systems, Paducah, Kentucky, $1,700,000. 
(3) ATOMIC WEAPONS.—Project 70-3-a, weapons production, devel-
opment and test installations, $10,000,000. 
(4) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 70-4-a, high temperature sodium facility. Pacific Northwest 
Laboratory, Richland, Washington, $6,300,000. 
Project 70-4-b, research and development test plans. Project Rover, 
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and Nevada Test 
Sit«, Nevada, $1,000,000. 
Project 70-4-c, modifications and alterations to expended core facil-
ity. National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, $4,400,000. 
Project 70-4-d, modifications to reactors, $1,000,000. 
(5) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.—Project 70-5-a, conversion of heating 
plant to natural gas, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $560,000. 
(6) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 70-6-a, 
accelerator improvements, zero gradient syn-
chrotron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $650,000. 
Project 70-6-b, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $700,000. 
Project 70-6-c, accelerator improvements, Cambridge and Princeton 
accelerators, $200,000. 
Project 70-6-d, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation Lab-
oratory, Berkeley, California, $680,000. 
Project 70-6-e, accelerator improvements, Stanford Linear Accel-
erator Center, California, $640,000. 
Construction 
design services. 
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Project 70-6-f, accelerator improvements, medium and low energy 
physics, $130,000. 
Project 70-6-g, modification to Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator, Law-
rence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $2,650,000. 
(7) ADMINISTRATIVE.—Project 70-7-a, computer building, AEC 
Headquarters, Germantown, Maryland, $1,850,000. 
(8) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS. —$37,650,000. 
(9) CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.—Acquisition and fabrication to capital 
equipment not related to construction, $172,525,000. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.— (a) The Commission is authorized to start 
any project set forth in subsections 101(b) (1),(3),(4), and (6) 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 
subsection 101(b) (2), (5), and (7) 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 subsection 
101(b) (8) only if it is in accordance with the following: 
(1) The maximum currently estimated cost of any project shall be 
$500,000 and the maximum currently estimated cost of any building 
included in such project shall be $100,000 provided that the building 
cost limitation may be exceeded if the Commission determines that it 
is necessary in the interest of efficiency and economy. 
(2) The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 
101(b) (8) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that sub-
section by more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. The Commission is authorized to perform construction 
design services for any Commission construction project whenever (1) 
such construction project has been included in a proposed authoriza-
tion bill transmitted to the Congress by the Commission and (2) the 
Commission determines tha;t the project is of such urgency that con-
struction of the project should be initiated promptly upon enactment 
of legislation appropriating funds for its construction. 
SEC. 104. When so specified in an appropriation Act, transfers of 
amounts between "Operating expenses" and "Plant and capital equip-
ment" may be made as provided in such appropriation Act. 
SEC. 105. AMENDMENT OF PRIOR YEAR ACT.—Section 101(b) of 
Public Law 90-56, as amended, is further amended by striking from 
subsection (4) thereof the figure "$32,333,000" for project 68-4-f, 200-
Bev accelerator, Du Page and Kane Counties near Chicago, Illinois, 
and substituting therefor the figure "$250,000,000." 
SEC. 106. LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER REACTOR DEMONSTRATION 
PROGRAM—PROJECT DEFINITION 
PHASE.— (a) The Commission is 
hereby authorized to conduct the Project Definition Phase of a Liquid 
Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Demonstration Program, under coopera-
tive arrangements with reactor manufacturers and others, in accord-
ance with the criteria heretofore submitted to the Joint Committee on 
Atomic Energy, without regard to the provisions of section 169 of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and authorization of appro- 
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priations therefor in the amount of $7,000,000 is included in section 101 
of this Act. 
SEC. 107. The Commission is authorized to appoint persons as 
Federal em-
employees to positions in the Atomic Energy Commission without ^/oX^excipu'on' 
regard to the provisions of section 201 of Public Law 90-364, and such 
Post, p. 83. 
positions shall not be taken into consideration in determining numbers 
of employees under subsection (a) of that section or numbers of 
vacancies under subsection (b) of that section. 
Approved July 11, 1969. 
Transfers 
amounts. 
81 Stat. 125; 
82 Stat. 97.