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 90-67 (S.1296), enacted 08/21/1967

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PUBLIC LAW 90-67-AUG. 21, 1967 
[81 STAT. 
Public Law 90-67 
August 21, 1967 
AN ACT 
'• • ^ ' 
To authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion for research and development, construction of facilities, and administra-
tive operations, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^Nationa^^Aero-^ T/m'^e^^ States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That there is 
Administration 
hereby authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics 
Authorization Act, and Space Administration the sum of $4,865,751,000, as follows: 
^^RIsearch and 
i^) For "Researcli and development," for the following programs: 
development. 
(1) ApoUo, $2,521,500,000; 
(2) Apollo applications, $347,700,000; 
(3) Advanced missions, $2,500,000; 
(4) Physics and astronomy, $145,500,000; 
(5) Lunar and planetary exploration, $131,900,000; 
(6) Voyager, $42,000,000; 
(7) Bioscience, $41,800,000; 
(8) Space applications, $99,500,000; 
(9) Launch vehicle procurement, $157,700,000; 
(10) Space vehicle systems, $36,000,000; 
(11) Electronics systems, $39,200,000; 
(12) Human factor systems, $21,000,000; 
(13) Basic research, $21,465,000; 
(14) Space power and electric propulsion systems, $44,000,000; 
(15) Nuclear rockets, $73,000,000; 
(16) Chemical propulsion, $41,000,000 of which $3,000,000 is 
to be used only for the large solid motor project; 
(17) Aeronautics, $66,800,000; 
(18) Tracking and dataacquisition, $290,000,000; 
(19) Sustaining university program, $20,000,000; 
(20) Technology utilization, $5,000,000. 
faciiuleT''*'"" °^ 
^^) ^^^ "Construction of facilities," including land acquisitions, as 
^"^ ^ '^^ 
follows: 
(1) Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California, $5,365,000; 
(2) Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 
Maryland, 
$565,000; 
(3) Jet 
Propulsion 
Laboratory, 
Pasadena, 
California, 
$3,125,000; 
(4) John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and 
Space 
Administration, 
Kennedy 
Space 
Center, 
Florida, 
$24,885,000; 
(5) Lewis Research Center, Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, 
$2,115,000; 
(6) Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas, $2,425,000; 
(7) George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, 
Alabama, $870,000; 
(8) Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans and Slidell, 
T^uisiana, $2,010,000; 
(9) Nuclear Rocket Development Station, Nevada, $19,500,000; 
(10) Wallops Station, Wallops Island, Virginia, $740,000; 
(11) Various locations, $2,880,000; 
(12) Facility planning and design not otherwise provided for, 
$5,500,000. 
ex^ens'ei^*'^*'"^ 
(c) For "Administrative operations", $648,206,000. 
Pr<^gram speci- 
(d) Appropriations for "Research and development" may be used 
fications. 
^1^ fQj. any items of a capital nature (other than acquisition of land) 
which may be required for the performance of research and develop-
Notice to con-
gressional com-
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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 
national 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 mutVes! 
facility, the estimated cost of which, including collateral equipment, 
exceeds $250,000, unless the Administrator or his designee has notified 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the 
Senate 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 con-
tracts may be entered into under the "Administrative operations" 
appropriation 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 vised, 
scientific con-
but not to exceed $35,000, for scientific consultations or extraordinarj^ 
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 of any new facility the estimated cost of 
which, including collateral equipment, exceeds $100,000. 
SEC. 2. Authorization is hereby granted whereby any of the 
amounts prescribed in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (T), 
(8), (9), (10), and (11) of subsection i(b) may, in the discretion of 
the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion, 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 the total of the amounts specified in such paragraphs. 
SEC. 3. Not to exceed one-half of 1 per centum of the funds appro- 
Transfer o
f 
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 para-
graph (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 engineermg 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 
aeronautical and space activities. The funds so made available may 
be expended to acquire, construct, convert, rehabilitate, or install 
permanent or temporary public works, including land acquisition, 
site preparation, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment. No portion 
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[81 STAT. 
Report to con-
gressional com-
mittees. 
Use of funds, 
restrictions. 
Notice to con-
gressional com-
mi ttees. 
Geographical 
distribution of 
funds. 
Aerospace 
Safety Advisory 
Panel. 
Compensation; 
travel expenses. 
80 Stat. 498, 
499. 
5 u s e 5701-
5708. 
80 Stat. 506. 
of such sums may be obligated for expenditure or expended to con-
struct, 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 Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives 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 writ-
ten 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 mod-
ification is necessary in the national interest, or (B) each such com-
mittee 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 orig-
inally 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 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 Sen-
ate 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 
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 
that consideration be given to geographical distribution of Federal 
research funds whenever feasible, and that the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration should explore ways and means of dis-
tributing its research and development funds whenever feasible. 
SEC. 6. There is hereby established an Aerospace Safety Advisory 
Panel consisting of a maximum of nine members who shall be 
appointed by the Administrator for terms of six years each. The Panel 
shall review safety studies and operations plans referred to it and shall 
make reports thereon, shall advise the Administrator with respect to 
the hazards of proposed or existing facilities and proposed operations 
and with respect to the adequacy of proposed or existing safety stand-
ards and shall perform such other duties as the Administrator may 
request. One member shall be designated by the Panel as its Chairman. 
Members of the Panel who are officers or employees of the Federal 
(jovernment shall receive no compensation for their services as such, 
but shall be allowed necessary travel expenses (or in the alternative, 
mileage for use of privately owned vehicles and a per diem in lieu of 
subsistence not to exceed the rates prescribed in 5 U.S.C. 5702, 5704), 
and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of 
duties vested in the Panel, without regard to the provisions of sub-
chapter I, chapter 57 of title 5 of the United States Code, the Standard-
ized Government Travel Regulations, or 5 IT.S.C. 5731. Members of 
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the Panel appointed from outside the Federal Government shall each 
receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day such member is 
engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Panel in 
addition to reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary 
expenses in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing sentence. 
Not more than four such members shall be chosen from among the 
officers and employees of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration. 
SEC. 7. This Act may be cited as the "National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration Authorization Act, 1968." 
Approved August 21, 1967. 
Short title. 
Public Law 90-68 
AN ACT 
For the relief of the village of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. 
August 21, 1967 
[H. R. 4496] 
>Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the village of Brook-
lyn Center, Minnesota, the sum of $2,036.62. The payment of such sum 
shall be in full settlement of all claims of the village of Brooklyn Cen-
ter, Minnesota, against the United States for reimbursement for one-
half of the cost of certain civil defense alerting monitors and tone 
signaling equipment which were purchased by the village during the 
year 1963 in reliance on an assurance by civil defense officials that 
such reimbursement would be made. No part of this amount appro-
priated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or 
delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services 
rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, 
any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the 
provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. 
Approved August 21, 1967. 
Brooklyn 
Center, Minnesota. 
Relief. 
Public Law 90-69 
AN ACT 
To authorize the appropriation of funds to carry out the activities of the Federal 
Field Committee for Development Planning in Alaska. 
August 21, 1967 
[S. 1281] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTnbled, There is authorized 
to be appropriated not to exceed $300,000 in any one fiscal year ending 
June 30,1968, and for each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1970, for the operating expenses of the Federal Field 
Committee for Development Planning in Alaska, established by 
Executive Order 11182, dated October 2, 1964 (F.R. Doc. 64-10178), 
as authorized by section 5 of the 1964 amendments to the Alaska 
Omnibus Act (Public Law 88-451, August 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 505), or 
the successor to such Committee. 
Approved August 21, 1967. 
Alaska. 
Development 
planning appro-
priation. 
3 CFR 1964 
Supp., p. 194. 
48 u s e prec. 
21 note.