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 89-32 (H.R.8122), enacted 06/02/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-32-JUNE 2, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
June 2, 1965 
[H. R. 8122] 
Atomic Energy 
Commission, 
Appropri at ion 
authorization. 
77 Stat. 88. 
42 u s e 2017. 
Public Law 89-32 
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 sec-
tion 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum of 
$2,655,521,000 as follows: 
(a) For "Operating expenses," $2,260,776,000. 
(b) For "Plant and capital equipment" including construction, 
acquisition, or modification of facilities, including land acquisition; 
construction planning and design; and acquisition and fabrication of 
capital equipment not related to construction, $294,745,000 as follows: 
(1) 
SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
Project 66-1-a, sludge removal and waste transfer facility, 
Richland, Washington, $2,650,000. 
(2) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 66-2-a, vibration test data and control facility, Sandia 
Base, New Mexico, $640,000. 
Project 66-2-b, weapons production, development, and test 
installations, $10,000,000. 
Project 66-2-c, electron-positron accelerator facility, Lawrence 
Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, $4,100,000. 
Project 66-2-d, environmental test facility, Lawrence Radia-
tion Laboratory, Livermore, California, $2,3()0,000. 
(3) 
ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 66-3-a, weapons test support facility, Los Alamos 
Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $1,300,000. 
Project 66-3-b, supplemental water supply, Los Alamos, New 
Mexico, $700,000. 
Project 66-3-c, physics analytical facility, Los Alamos Scien-
tific Laboratory, New Mexico, $830,000. 
Project 66-3-d, explosives engineering area rehabilitation, Los 
Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $1,350,000. 
Project 66-3-e, warehouses, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, $680,000. 
Project 66-3-f, control point additions and modifications, phase 
II, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, $1,000,000. 
(4) 
REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 66-4-a, sodium pmnp test facility, $6,800,000. 
Project 66-4-b, electron linear accelerator. Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Tennessee, $4,800,000. 
Project 66-4-c, modifications to reactors, $3,000,000. 
Project 66-^d, research and development test plants, Project 
Rover, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and 
Nevada Test Site, Nevada, $3,000,000. 
Project 66-4-e, re-entry burnup test facility, Sandia Base, 
New Mexico, $2,500,000. 
(5) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 66-5-a, low-energy accelerator improvements, Argonne 
National Laboratory, Illinois, $1,000,000. 
Project 
66-5-b, bubble chamber and experimental 
area, 
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $17,000,000. 
Project 66-5-c, accelerator improvements, zero gradient syn-
chrotron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $2,300,000. 
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Project 66-5-d, accelerator and reactor additions and modifica-
tions, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $2,300,000. 
Project 66-5-e, alternating gradient synchrotron conversion, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York 
(AE only), 
$2,000,000. 
Project 66-5-f, accelerator improvements, Cambridge and 
Princeton accelerators, $475,000. 
Project 66-5-g, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $1,425,000. 
Project 66-5-h, meson physics facility, Los Alamos Scientific 
Laboratory, New Mexico (AE only), $1,200,000. 
(6) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 66-6-a, solid state science building, Argonne National 
Laboratory, Illinois, $4,000,000. 
Project 66-6-b, alternating gradient synchrotron service build-
ing addition, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, 
$1,600,000. 
Project 66-6-c, land acquisition, Brookhaven National Labo-
ratory, New York, $2,000,000. 
Project 66-6-d, electron linear accelerator facility, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, $4,600,000. 
(7) 
BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.— 
Project 66-7-a, virus control laboratory. Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Tennessee, $1,360,000. 
Project 66-7-b, co-carcinogenesis mammalian receiving, isola-
tion, and control laboratory. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 
Tennessee, $500,000. 
Project 66-7-c, animal laboratories, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, New York, $975,000. 
Project 66-7-d, air conditioning, Argonne Cancer Research 
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, $750,000. 
(8) 
COMMUNITY.— 
Project 66-8-a, classroom additions. White Rock Elementary 
School, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $325,000. 
Project 66-8-b, classroom addition, Pueblo Junior High School, 
Los Alamos, New Mexico, $65,000. 
Project 66-8-c, classroom addition. Barranca Mesa Elementary 
School, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $225,000. 
Project 66-8-d, classroom addition, Los Alamos High School, 
Los Alamos, New Mexico, $360,000. 
Project 66-8-e, Bayo Canyon sewage disposal plant expansion, 
Los Alamos, New Mexico, $950,000. 
(9) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$42,325,000. 
(10) 
CONSTRUCTION PLANNING AND DESIGN.—$3,000,000. 
(11) CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.—^Acquisition and fabrication of capital 
equipment not related to construction, $158,360,000. 
SEC. 102. LIMITATIONS.—(a) The Commission is authorized to start 
any project set forth in subsections 101(b) (2), (4), and (5), 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(b) (1), (3), (6), (7), and (8), 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 subsec-
tion 101(b) (9) only if it is in accordance with the following: 
(1) For community operations, the maximum currently esti-
mated cost of any project shall be $100,000 and the maximum 
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Construction de-
sign services. 
Transfer of 
amounts. 
71 Stat. 409; 
78 Stat. 230. 
68 Stat. 952. 
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Limitation. 
cuiTently 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 project shall be 
$100,000. 
(3) The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 
101(D) (9) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that 
subsection by more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. The Commission is authorized to use funds appropriated 
pursuant to this authorization, and other funds currently available 
to the Commission, for the purpose of performing construction design 
services for any Commission construction project whenever (1) such 
construction project has been included in a proposed authorization 
bill transmitted to the Congress by the Commission and (2) the 
Commission detei-mines that the project is of such urgency that con-
struction of tYie 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. 
SE(J. 105. COOPERATIVE POWER REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.— 
Section 111 of Public Law 85-162, as amended, is further amended 
by striking out the date "June 30, 1965" in clause (3) of subsection 
(a) and inserting in lieu thereof the date "June 30,1966". 
SEC. 106. LARGE SEED-BLANKET REACTOR.—(a) The Commission is 
hereby authorized to enter into a cooperative arrangement with a 
State, its departments and agencies, or with privately, publicly, or 
cooperatively owned utilities or industrial organizations, for partic-
ipation in the research and development, design, construction, and 
operation of a thorium seed-blanket nuclear powerplant, in accordance 
with the basis for an arrangement described in program justification 
data submitted by the Commission 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 appropriations 
therefor in the amount of $91,500,000 is included in section 101 of this 
Act. 
(b) Not in excess of $25,000,000 of the funds appropriated to the 
Commission pursuant to the authorization contained in subsection (a) 
of this section may be used by the Commission for the purpose of per-
forming research and development on a thorium seed-blanket nuclear 
powerplant prior to execution of a contract pursuant to the authoriza-
tion contained in subsection (a) of this section. 
SEC. 107. HIGH-TEMPERATURE GAS-COOLED POWER REACTOR.—The 
Commission is hereby authorized to enter into a cooperative arrange-
ment with a utility or group of utilities and an equipment manufac-
turer or other industrialorganization for participation in the research 
and development, design, construction, and operation of a high-tein-
perature gas-cooled nuclear powerplant, in accordance with the basis 
for an arrangement described in the program justification data sub-
mitted by the Commission in support of this authorization for fiscal 
year 1966, without i-egard to the provisions of section 169 of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and authorization of appro-
priations therefor in the amount of $40,863,000 is included in section 
101 of this Act: Provided, That the Commission is also authorized to 
waive use charges for special nuclear materials in connection with this 
project in an amount not to exceed $6,443,000, and to agree to purchase 
uraiiium enriched in the isotope 233 produced in and discharged from 
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the reactor during the term, of the cooperative arrangement without 
regard to the provisions of section 56 of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954, as amended. 
SEC. 108. KESCISSIONS.—(a) Public Law 87-701, as amended, is 
further amended by rescinding therefrom authorization for a proj-
ect, except for funds heretofore obligated, as follows: 
Project 63-b-4, emergency duty personnel shelters, various 
sites, $4,000,000. 
(b) Public Law 88-72, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for a project, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 64-e-8, modifications to CANEL facilities. Middle-
town, Connecticut, $1,455,000. 
(c) Section 111 of Public Law 87-701, as amended, is rescinded. 
(d) Section 105 of Public Law 88-72, as amended, is rescinded. 
(e) Section 106 of Public Law 88-72, as amended, is rescinded. 
Approved June 2, 1965. 
78 Stat. 605. 
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76 Stat. 599. 
77 Stat, 85., 
76 Stat. 603. 
77 Stat. 86. 
Public Law 89-33 
AN ACT 
To provide for the establishment of the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument 
in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes. 
June 5, 1965 
[S. 339] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to 
preserve for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future genera-
tions the outstanding paleontological sites known as the Agate Springs 
Fossil Quarries, and nearby related geological phenomena, to provide 
a center for continuing paleontological research and for the display 
and interpretation of tlie scientific specimens uncovered at such sites, 
and to facilitate the protection and exhibition of a valuable collection 
of Lidian artifacts and relics that are representative of an important 
phase of Indian history, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to 
acquire by donation, or by purchase with donated or appropriated 
funds, or otherwise, title or a lesser interest in not more than three 
tliousand one hundred and fifty acres of land in township 28 north, 
range 55 west, sixth principal meridian, Sioux County, Nebraska, for 
inclusion in the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in accordance 
with the boundary designation made pursuant to section 2 hereof, 
which boundary may include such right-of-way as is needed for a 
road between the Stenomylus Quarry site and the monument lands 
lying in section 3 or 10 of the said township and range. 
SEC. 2. Within the acreage limitation of section 1, the Secretary 
may designate and adjust the boundaries of Agate Fossil Beds 
National Monument. When the Secretary finds that lands constitut-
ing an initially administrable unit are in Federal ownership, he shall 
establish such national monument by publication of notice thereof 
in the Federal Register, and any subsequent adjustment of its bound-
aries shall be effectuated in the same manner. 
SEC. 3. The Agate Fossil Beds National Monument shall be admin-
istered by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Act entitled 
"An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", 
approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as 
amended and supplemented. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated the sums 
of not more than $301,150 for acquisition of lands and interests in 
land and not more than $1,842,000 for development in connection with 
the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument under this Act. 
Approved June 5, 1965. 
Agate Fossil 
Beds National 
Monument, Nebr. 
Establishment. 
Acquisition of 
lands. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
Administration. 
Appropriation.