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 88-332 (H.R.10945), enacted 06/30/1964

penses. 
74 Stat. 123. 
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PUBLIC LAW 88-332-JUNE 30, 1964 
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Public Law 88-332 
AN ACT 
June 30, 1964 
To authorize appropriations to the Atomic Energy Commission in accordance —
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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 
Representa-
tives of the United 
States 
of America 
in Congress assemhled^ c^mTssio".*"^^^ 
SEC. 101. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Appropriation 
Atomic Energy Commission in accordance with the provisions of authorization. 
section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the sum ^^ f
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of $2,636,577,000 as follows: 
(a) For "Operating expenses," $2,298,467,000: Provided, That in „,°^r.^""^ ^'^ 
the total amount authorized by this subsection there is included the 
amount of $1,000,000, which is m addition to the amount of $5,000,000 
previously authorized in section 110 of Public Law 86-457 for use in 
a cooperative program of research and development with the Govern-
ment of Canada: Provided further, That in the total amount author-
ized by this subsection there is included the amount of $3,000,000 
which is in addition to the sum of $22,500,000 previously authorized 
for carrying out the purposes of section 3 of Public Law 85-846, 
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providing tor cooperation with the European Atomic Energy 
Community. 
(b) For "Plant and capital equipment," including construction, st^uct^on,^Icqui^ 
acquisition, or modification of facilities, including land acquisition; sition, etc. 
construction planning and design; and acquisition and fabrication of 
capital equipment not related to construction, $338,110,000 as follows: 
(1) SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
Project 65-1-a, radio-surgery facility, Richland, Washington, 
$250,000. 
Project 65-1-b, isotopes production plant, Richland, Washing-
ton, $9,000,000. 
(2) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 65-2-a, materials processing facilities. Mound Labora-
tory, Miamisburg, Ohio, $565,000. 
Project 65-2-b, analytical laboratory expansion. Rocky Flats, 
Colorado, $3,000,000. 
Project 65-2-c, weapons production, development and test 
installations, $10,000,000. 
Project 65-2-d, process facility addition. Savannah River, 
South Carolina, $3,700,000. 
Project 65-2-e, high velocity test facility, Sandia Base, New 
Mexico, $1,350,000. 
(3) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 65-3-a, environmental control facilities, Kansas City, 
Missouri, $1,000,000. 
Project 65-3-b, utility and supporting services additions, 
Rocky Flats, Colorado, $2,245,000. 
Project 65-3-c, supplemental water supply, Los Alamos Sci-
entific Laboratory, New Mexico, $1,550,000. 
Project 65-3-d, experimental physics facilities 
additions, 
Lawrence 
Radiation 
Laboratory, 
Livermore, 
California, 
$4,090,000. 
Project 65-3-e, chemistry development facilities, Lawrence 
Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, $2,000,000. 
Project 65-3-f, base support facilities, Nevada Test Site, 
Nevada, $620,000. 
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(4) EEACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 65-4—a, zero power plutonium reactor, National Reac-
tor Testing Station, Idaho, $3,000,000. 
Project 65-4r-b, power burst facility, National Reactor Testing 
Station, Idaho, $8,100,000. 
Project 65-4-c, research and development test plants, Project 
Rover, Los Alamos, Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico and 
Nevada Test Site, Nevada, $3,000,000. 
Project 65-4-d, modifications to reactors, $3,000,000. 
(5) PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 65-5-a, Argonne advanced research reactor, Argonne 
National Laboratory, Illinois, $25,000,000. 
Project 
65-5-b, accelerator 
improvements, zero 
gradient 
synchrotron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $1,650,000. 
Project 65-5-c, electron linear accelerator, Argonne National 
Laboratory, Illinois, $875,000. 
Project 65-5-d, accelerator and reactor additions and modifica-
tions, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $1,700,000. 
Project 65-5-e, accelerator improvements, Cambridge and 
Princeton accelerators, $1,350,000. 
Project 65-5-f, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $850,000. 
Project 65-5-g, transuranium research laboratory. Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory, Tennessee, $1,850,000. 
(6) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 65-6-a, lecture hall and cafeteria, Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, New York, $2,300,000. 
Project 65-6-b, site utilities, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 
New York, $675,000. 
Project 65-6-c, computer data processing building, Lawrence 
Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $2,400,000. 
Project 65-6-d, heavy ion linear accelerator additions, Law-
rence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $525,000. 
Project 65-6-e, high energy physics laboratory, California 
Institute of Technology, California, $2,000,000. 
(7) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.— 
Project 65-7-a, co-carcinogenesis research laboratory. Oak 
Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, $2,070,000. 
Project 65-7-b, atmospheric physics building, Richland, Wash-
ington, $373,000. 
Project 65-7-c, biomedical and animal laboratory, Lawrence 
Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, $3,500,000. 
(8) 
COMMUNITY.— 
Project 65-8-a, classroom addition, Cumbres Junior High 
School, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $340,000. 
Project 65-8-b, classroom addition, White Rock Elementary 
School, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $260,000. 
Project 65-8-c, water distribution system additions, phase I I I , 
White Rock, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $290,000. 
Project 65-8-d, sewage disposal plant. White Rock, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico, $610,000. 
(9) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$43,250,000. 
(10) 
CONSTRUCTION PLANNING AND DESIGN.—$3,000,000. 
(11) CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.—^Acquisition and fabrication of capital 
equipment not related to construction, $186,772,000. 
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SEC. 
102. PROJECT RESCISSIONS.—(a) 
Public J^aw 85-590, as 
amended, is further amended by rescinding therefrom authorization 
for projects, except for funds heretofore obligated, as follows: 
Project 59-e-3, two accelerators, beam analyzing system and 
magnet, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, $950,000. 
Project 59-e-12, research and engineering reactor, Argonne Na-
tional Laboratory, design and engineering, $1,000,000. 
(b) Public Law 86-50, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for a project, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 60-e-7, nuclear test plant. Army Reactor Experimental 
Area 
(AREA), National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, 
$5,000,000. 
(c) Public Law 86-457, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for a project, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 61-f-8, materials research laboratory. University of 
Illinois, $5,600,000. 
(d) Public Law 87-315, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom the authorization for a project, except for funds hereto-
fore obligated, as follows: 
Project 62-a-4, solvent purification installation. Savannah 
River, South Carolina, $500,000. 
(e) Public Law 87-701, as amended, is further amended by rescind-
ing therefrom authorization for projects, except for funds heretofore 
obligated, as follows: 
Project 63-e-3, organic reactor project, $20,000,000. 
Project 63-J-3, two mobile irradiators, $700,000. 
(f) 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-6, support facilities for advanced space power 
systems, National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho, $1,800,000. 
SEC. 103. LIMITATIONS.—(a) The Commission is authorized to start 
any project set forth in subsections 101(b) (1), (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) (3), (6), (7), and (8), only if the currently esti-
mated 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 cur-
rently 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(b)(9) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that 
subsection by more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 104. 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 
Project rescis-
sions. 
7 2Stat. 491, 492. 
73 Stat. 82. 
74 Stat. 121. 
7 5 Stat. 676. 
76 Stat. 600. 
77 Stat. 85. 
Cost limita-
tions. 
Community op-
erations. 
General plant 
projects. 
Engineering 
design. 
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[78 STAT. 
Transfers of 
amounts. 
71 Stat. 409; 
77 Stat. 86. 
Fission product 
contracts, author-
ity. 
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Contract termi-
nation. 
Report to Joint 
Committee. 
Time waiver. 
transmitted to the Congress by the Commission and (2) the Commis-
sion determines that the project is of such urgency that construction of 
the project should be initiated promptly upon enactment of legislation 
appropriating funds for its construction. 
SEC. 105. 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. 106. COOPERATIVE POWER REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.— 
Section 111 of Public Law 85-162, as amended, is further amended by 
striking out the date "June 30, 1964" in clause (3) of subsection (a) 
and inserting in lieu thereof the date "June 30, 1965". 
SEC. 107. FISSION PRODUCT CONTRACTS.—(a) Without regard to 
section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, the Commission is 
authorized to enter into contracts for such periods of time as the 
Commission may deem necessary or desirable, for the purpose of 
making available fission products from Commission reactors, with or 
without charge for commercial application. 
(b) Any contract entered into by the Commission pursuant to this 
section shall be subject to termination by the Commission upon pay-
ment of cancellation costs as provided in such contract, and any appro-
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riation presently or hereafter made available to the Commission shall 
e available for payment of such costs which may arise from termi-
nation as the contract may provide. 
(c) Before the Commission enters into any arrangement or amend-
ment thereto under the authority of this section, the basis for the 
proposed arrangement or amendment thereto which the Commission 
proposes to execute (with necessary background and explanatory 
data) shall be submitted to the Joint Committee, and a period of 
forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session in c6mputing 
such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days on which either 
House is not in session because of adjournment of more than three 
days: Provided^ however^ That the Joint Committee, after having 
received the basis for the proposed arrangement or amendment 
thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of, or all 
or any portion of, such forty-five-day period. 
Approved June 30, 1964. 
June 30, 1964 
[H. R. 8975] 
Public Law 88-333 
AN ACT 
To provide for the tariff classitication of certain particleboard. 
Particleboard. 
Tariff classifi-
cation. 
46 Stat. 653. 
46 Stat. 734. 
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Be it enacted hy the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That wood particle-
board which was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumi)tion after July 11, 1957, and before August 31, 1963, shall be 
classified for duty purposes as wallboard under paragraph 1402 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, if not excluded from classification under such 
paragraph by reason of any processing specified therein. 
The entries 
mvolved shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 514 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 or any other provision of law, be liquidated or 
reliquidated in accordance with the preceding sentence, except that no 
refunds shall be allowed thereby unless claim therefor is filed with 
the collector of customs concerned within one hundred and twenty 
days after date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved June 30, 1964.