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 92-84 (H.R.9388), enacted 08/11/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-84-AUG. 11, 1971 
[85 STAT 
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August 11, 1971 
[H. R. 9388] 
Public Law 92-84 
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. 
Atomic Energy 
Commission. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
77 Stat. 88. 
42 u s e 2017. 
Advisory Coun-
cil. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
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", $2,029,571,000, of which not less than 
$31,000,000 shall be available for controlled thermonuclear fusion 
research and development, and of which not more than $116,400,000 
shall be available for 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 con-
struction, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following: 
(1) NUCLEAR MATERIALS.— 
Project 72-1-a, electrical system modifications for higher power 
operation of gaseous diffusion plant, Paducah, Kentucky, $2,000,000. 
Projeot 72-1-b, cooling water system modifications for higher power 
operation of gaseous diffusion plant, Paducah, Kentucky, $2,800,000. 
Project 72-1-c, replacement of direct buried radioactive waste trans-
fer lines, Eichland, Washington, $2,300,000. 
Project 72-1-d, irradiated fuel storage facility, National Reactor 
Testing Station, Idaho, $2,500,000. 
Project 72-1-e, improvements in radioactive waste management and 
supporting facilities, multiple sites, $5,000,000. 
Project 72-1-f, component preparation laboratories, multiple sites, 
$3,000,000. 
Project 72-1-g, facilities for integrated operation of chemical 
separations plants, Richland, Washington, $1,500,000. 
Project 72-1-h, air filter for laboratory facilities, Savannah River, 
South Carolina, $2,500,000. 
(2) ATOMIC WEAPONS.— 
Project 72-2-a, weapons production, development, and test instal-
lations, $10,000,000. 
Project 72-2-b, weapons neutron research facility (AE only), Los 
Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $585,000. 
(3) REACTOR DEVELOPMENT.— 
Project 72-3-a, liquid metal engineering center facility modifica-
tions, Santa Susana, California, $1,000,000. 
Project 72-3-b, national radioactive waste repository, Lyons, Kan-
sas, $3,500,000: Provided, That— 
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (E), no funds shall 
be obligated or expended (i) for the acquisition of a fee simple 
interest in land or for the acquisition of any other interest in land 
which exceeds three years from the date of enactment of this Act, 
or (ii) for or in connection with the burial of radioactive materials 
at the proposed site other than for experimental purposes, includ-
ing demonstrations, and then only when and if such materials 
are fully retrievable throughout such three year period. 
(B) The President of the United States shall appoint an 
advisory council which shall be composed of nine members at least 
three of whom shall be from Kansas. The advisory council may 
report to the Congress from time to time. 
gress. 
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(C) The Atomic Energy Commission (acting directly or by 
contract) shall conduct laboratory and other tests and research 
(whether onsite or elsewhere) relating to the safety of the project, 
the protection of public health, and the preservation of the quality 
of the environment before any high level radioactive waste mate-
rial is placed in salt mines at the proposed site except as provided 
in subparagraph (A). 
(D) No high level radioactive materials shall be buried or used, 
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other than as provided by clause (ii) of subparagraph (A), at the 
proposed site until the advisory council reports to the Congress 
that construction and operation of such project and the trans-
portation of waste materials to the project can be carried out in a 
manner which assures the safety of the project, the protection of 
public health, and the preservation of the quality of the environ-
ment of the region. 
(E) The limitations provided by subparagraph (A) shall not 
apply after the expiration of sixty calendar days of continuous 
session of the Congress after the date on which tlie advisory coun-
cil submits its report under subparagraph (D). For purposes of 
the preceding sentence, continuity of session is broken only by 
an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which 
either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more 
than three days to a day certain are excluded m the computation 
of the sixty-day period. 
Project 72-3-c, analytical support facility. Mound Laboratory, 
Miamisburg, Ohio, $850,000. 
Project 72-3-d, research and development test plants. Project Rover, 
\A)S Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, and Nevada Test Site, 
Nevada. $1,000,000. 
(4) 
PHYSICAL RESEARCH.— 
Project 72-4-a, accelerator improvements, zero gradient synchro-
tron, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, $225,000. 
Project 72-4-b, accelerator and reactor additions and modifications, 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, $280,000. 
Project 72^-c, accelerator improvements, Cambridge Electron 
Accelerator, Massachusetts, $75,000. 
Project 72-4-d, accelerator improvements, Lawrence Radiation 
Laboratory, Berkeley, California, $180,000. 
Project 72-4-e, accelerator and reactor improvements, medium and 
low energy physics, $400,000. 
(5) BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE.— 
Project 72-5-a, radiobiology and therapy research facility (AE 
only), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, New Mexico, $345,000. 
(6) GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.—$41,080,000. 
(7) CAPITAL EQUIPMENT.—Acquisition and fabrication of capital 
equipment not related to construction, $153,296,000. 
^EC. 102. LIMITATIONS.— (a) The Commission is authorized to start 
any project set forth in subsections 101(b) (1), (2), (3), (4), and (5) 
only if the currently estimated cost of that project does not exceed 
l)y more than 25 per centum the estimated cost set forth for that 
project. 
(b) The Commission is authorized to start any project under sub-
section 101(b)(6) only if it is in accordance with the following: 
(1) The maximum currently estimated cost of any project shall 
l>e $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. 
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Construction 
design services. 
Transfer of 
amounts. 
79 Stat. 120; 
82 Stat. 97. 
84 Stat. 300. 
83 Stat. 46. 
84 Stat. 299. 
84 Stat. 1565. 
H Stat. 124. 
(2) The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 
101(b) (6) 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 that 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 ACTS.—(a) Section 101 of 
Public Law 89-32, as amended, is further amended by (1) striking 
therefrom the figure "$2,658,821,000", and substituting therefor the 
figure "$2,664,521,000"; (2) striking from subsection (b) thereof 
the figure "$398,045,000", and substituting therefor the 
figure 
"$403,745,000"; and (3) striking from subsection (b)(4) for project 
66-4:-a, sodium pump test facility, the words "for design and Phase 
I construction," and further striking the figure "$6,800,000" and sub-
stituting therefor the figure "$12,500,000". 
(b) Section 101 of Public Law 91-44, as amended, is further 
amended by striking from subsection (b) (5) thereof the figure 
"$560,000" for project 70-5-a, conversion of heating plant to natural 
gas, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, and substituting therefor 
the figure "$860,000". 
(c) Section 101 of Public Law 91-273, as amended, is further amended 
by (1) striking from subsection (b) (1) thereof the figure "$14,700,000" 
for project 71-1-e, gaseous diffusion production support facilities, and 
substituting therefor the figure "$45,700,000"; (2) striking from sub-
section (b) (1) thereof the figure "$6,400,000" for project 71-1-f, proc-
ess equipment modifications, gaseous diffusion plants, and substituting 
therefor the figure "$10,400,000"; and (3) striking from subsection 
(b) (9) thereof the figure "$25,500,000" for project 71-9, fire, safety, 
and adequacy of operating conditions projects, various locations, and 
substitutmg therefor the figure "$45,700,000." 
(d) Section 106 of Public Law 91-273, as amended, is amended by 
(1) striking from subsection (a) thereof the figure "$50,000,000", 
wherever it appears therein, and substituting therefor the figure 
"$100,000,000"; (2) striking from subsection (a) thereof the phrase 
"up to a total amount of "$20,000,000"; and (3) adding the following 
after the words "civilian base program:" '"''Provided^ That such assist-
ance shall not include the furnishing of end capital items of this 
demonstration plant excluding items which the Commission may deem 
necessary for research, development or testing in light of its liquid 
metal fast breeder reactor base program: And provided further^ That 
such assistance which the Commission undertakes specifically for this 
demonstration plant shall not exceed 50 per centum of the estimated 
capital cost of such plant: And''\ 
SEC. 106. RESCISSION.—Public Law 90-56, as amended, is further 
amended by rescinding therefrom authorization for a project, except 
for funds heretofore obligated, as follows: 
Project 68-3-b, isotopic space systems facility, Sandia Base, New 
Mexico, $2,250,000. 
SEC. 107. LIQUID METAL FAST BREEDER REACTOR BASE PROGRAM 
PROJECT.—As part of the Commission's liquid metal fast breeder 
reactor base program, the Commission is hereby authorized to enter 
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into a definitive arrangement, for a term not exceeding seven years, for 
the conduct in the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant of a program 
of plant operation, and research and development of programmatic 
interest to the Commission; and the Commission is further authorized 
as part of such arrangement, and without regard to the provisions of 
section 169 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to waive 
use charges for special nuclear material, up to a total amount of 
$9,100,000, and to distribute special nuclear material by lease during 
the term of the arrangement. 
TITLE I I 
SEC. 201. (a) Subsection a. of section 31 of the Atomic Energy Act 
of 1954, as amended, is amended by (1) striking the word "and" from 
the end of paragraph (4) thereof; (2) striking from the end of para-
graph (5) thereof the period and substituting therefor "; and" and 
(3) by adding thereto a new paragraph (6) to read as follows: 
"(6) the preservation and enhancement of a viable environment by 
developing more efficient methods to meet the Nation's energy needs." 
(b) The first sentence of section 33 of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1954, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Where the Com-
mission finds private facilities or laboratories are inadequate for the 
purpose, it is authorized to conduct for other persons, through its own 
facilities, such of those activities and studies of the types specified in 
section 31 as it deems appropriate to the development of energy." 
Approved August 11, 1971. 
68 Stat. 952. 
42 u s e 2209. 
Research. 
68 Stat. 927; 
84 Stat. 1472. 
42 u s e 2051. 
81 Stat. 577. 
42 u s e 2053. 
Public Law 92-85 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 19 of title 20 of the District of Columbia Code to pro-
vide for distributicm of a minor's share in a decedent's personal estate where 
the share does not exceed the value of $1,000. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of RepresentatlreH of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) chapter 
19 of title 20, District of Columbia Code, is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new section: 
"§20-1908. Distribution of minor's share 
"If (1) any person entitled to a distributive share of a decedent's 
estate is under twenty-one years of age and is not otherwise under a 
legal disability, (2) such distributive share consists of personal prop-
erty or money of the value of not more than $1,000, and (3) there is 
no duly appointed and qualified guardian for'such person— 
" (A) if such person is eighteen years of age or over, the execu-
tor or administrator may deliver such share to such person and 
his receipt shall be sufficient voucher therefor; 
"(B) if such person is under eighteen years of age, the execu-
tor or administrator may deliver such share to the custodian of 
such person and the receipt of such custodian shall be sufficient 
voucher therefor." 
(b) The table of sections for such chapter is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following new item: 
"20-1908. Distribution of minor's share." 
Approved August 11, 1971. 
August 11, 1971 
[H. R. 2594] 
D.e. estates. 
Minor's share, 
distribution. 
79 Stat. 729. 
D.e. eode 20-
1901. 
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