General and special funds-Continued PLANT AND CAPITAL EQUIPMENT Continued ment installations and for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $70 thousand in 1965 includes $45 thousand for new construction projects and $25 thousand for capital equipment not related to construction. 2. Special nuclear materials. This activity provides for additions, modifications, and improvements to the feed materials plants, the gaseous diffusion plants, and the production reactor installations, and for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $41.9 million in 1965 include $19.9 million for new construction projects and $22 million for capital equipment not related to construction. 3. Weapons. This activity provides for construction and modification of weapons production, development and testing facilities and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $118.8 million in 1965 include $46.1 million for new construction projects and $72.7 million for capital equipment not related to construction. 4. Reactor development.-This activity provides for the construction of laboratory buildings for fundamental engineering work on reactor concepts and materials; facilities for the housing of reactor experiments; civilian power experimental reactors generating electrical energy or producing over 10,000 kilowatts of heat; and development and test installations. It also provides for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $78 million in 1965 include $30.6 million for construction projects and $47.4 million for capital equipment not related to construction. Major construction projects include a power burst facility for the nuclear safety program, a zero power plutonium reactor for the civilian power program, and test facilities for Project Rover. 5. Physical research. This activity provides for construction of large research machines, laboratory buildings and associated support facilities, and for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. It includes modification and improvement of ultra-high-energy particle accelerators in the multibillion electron-volt range, which will assist in obtaining new knowledge about the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles. Obligational requirements of $107.7 million in 1965 include $43.9 million for new construction projects, principally for a large research reactor at Argonne National Laboratory, other laboratory facilities to house various research efforts, and for accelerator improvements. The estimate includes $24 million for the previously authorized Stanford linear electron accelerator and $400 thousand for the University of Chicago physics building authorized in 1962. Also included is $39.4 million for 7. Training, education, and information.-This activity provides for construction in connection with the AEČ training program, and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $750 thousand in 1965 include $90 thousand for new construction and $660 thousand for capital equipment not related to construction. 8. Civilian applications of isotopes and nuclear explosives-Isotopes. This activity provides for the procurement of capital equipment not related to construction required for research and development directed toward beneficial utilization of isotopes. Obligational requirements in 1965 total $1.9 million. Nuclear explosives. This activity provides for procurement of capital equipment not related to construction for use in the investigation and development of peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Obligational requirements in 1965 total $400 thousand. 9. Communities. This activity provides for improvements and additions to community facilities at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and for procurement of capital equip ment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $5.3 million in 1965 include $2.2 million for new construction projects, $3 million for construction previously authorized in connection with disposal of the Los Alamos, N. Mex. community, and $90 thousand for capital equipment not related to construction. 10. Administrative. This activity provides for improvements and modifications of administrative facilities at the Commission headquarters in Germantown, Md., and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $757 thousand in 1965 include $90 thousand for new construction projects and $667 thousand for capital equipment not related to construction. 11. Construction planning and design.-This activity provides for advance architect-engineer work to develop precise information on the characteristics of proposed projects and the development of sound and reliable estimates of cost prior to proposing such projects for authorization. The costs to this appropriation and the financing of these projects are analyzed in the following table. tions in this Act during the fiscal year [1964] 1965 to finance the procurement of materials, services, or other costs which are a part of work or activities for which funds have been provided in any other appropriation available to the Commission: Provided, That appropriate transfers or adjustments between such appropriations shall subsequently be made for such costs on the basis of actual application determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Not to exceed 5 per centum of appropriations made available for the fiscal year [1964] 1965 for “Operating expenses" and "Plant and capital equipment" may be transferred between such appropriations, but neither such appropriation, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be increased by more than 5 per centum by any such transfers, and any such transfers shall be reported promptly to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. No part of any appropriation herein shall be used to confer a fellowship on any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence or with respect to whom the Commission finds, upon investigation and report by the Civil Service Commission on the character, associations, and loyalty of whom, that reasonable grounds exist for belief that such person is disloyal to the Government of the United States: Provided, That any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment or a fellowship the salary, wages, stipend, grant, or expenses for which are paid from any appropriation contained herein shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. (42 U.S.C. 2011, Public Works Appropriation Act, 1964.) ANALYSIS OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES [In thousands of dollars] Balance, start of 1963 Balance, start of 1964 Unobligated Enacted or recommended in this document: Appropriations: Operating expenses.. Plant and capital equipment. Total appropriations.... Revolving and management funds: Advances and reimbursements... 17,698 135,723 153,421 1,237,330 Total, Atomic Energy Commission.. 191,078 1,204,549 336,460 1,581,449 1,524,118 1,482,118 FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY The functions of the Federal Aviation Agency include (a) encouraging and fostering the development of civil aeronautics and air commerce in the United States and abroad; (b) managing the use of navigable airspace and regulating both civil and military air operations; (c) installing and operating aids to air navigation and traffic control for civil and military aircraft; (d) conducting research to develop new and improved facilities and techniques to modernize the airways systems; (e) conducting medical research on human factors which directly affect safety in civil aviation; (f) certifying the competency of airmen and the airworthiness of aircraft; (g) developing standards and rules designed to promote safety; and (h) administering grants for airport construction. General and special funds: OPERATIONS For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Agency, not otherwise provided for, including administrative expenses for research and development and for establishment of air navigation facilities, and carrying out the provisions of the Federal Airport Act; not to exceed $10,000 for representation allowances and for official entertainment; purchase of [ten] twenty-three passenger motor vehicles, including [nine] sixteen for replacement only [and one at a cost not to exceed $6,100]; and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; [$528,000,000:1 $549,000,000: Provided, That total costs of aviation medicine, including equipment, for the Federal Aviation Agency, whether provided in the foregoing appropriation or elsewhere in this Act, shall not exceed [$6,073,600 $6,344,000 or include in excess of 406 positions: Provided further, That_there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of air navigation facilities. (49 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.; 49 U.S.C. 11511160; 50 U.S.C. a-c and App. 1622(g); Convention on International Civil Aviation, 61 Stat. 1180; Convention on International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft, 4 U.S.T. 1830, 1953; Executive Order 11,048 and related regulations (27 F.R. 8887; 8855), and 10 U.S.C. 4655; Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1964.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 1. Operation of traffic control system. This activity covers the operation on a daily 24-hour basis of a national system of air traffic management in the United States and its possessions. With the aid of radar, communications, and other facilities, traffic management personnel at 31 centers monitor and control en route flights of civil and military aircraft conducted under instrument conditions to assure safety and to expedite the flow of traffic. Control towers are operated at 276 major civil airports to guide traffic movements on and in the vicinity of the airports. Some 349 domestic and international flight service stations transmit weather and other information to pilots and relay traffic control data between ground controllers and pilots. Increases in 1965 are for operating newly commissioned air traffic control facilities procured and installed with funds appropriated under Facilities and equipment and for authorized civilian pay increases. 2. Facility installation and technical support.-This activity covers the direction and engineering services related to the establishment and improvement of facilities in the traffic control system; procurement, contracting, and materiel management programs; supply support and leased communications services for the traffic control system; and supply support for Agency aircraft except for aircraft used in research and development programs. Major increases in 1965 are to provide supply support and leased communications services for new air traffic control and navigation facilities. 3. Maintenance of traffic control system.-This activity covers the technical operation and maintenance of a national network of air navigation and traffic control aids. in the United States and its possessions. Major increases in 1965 are for maintenance of newly commissioned air traffic control and navigation aids, assumption of maintenance responsibility of certain joint use military radar facilities used in the control of civil air traffic, and for authorized civilian pay increases. 4. Administration of flight standards.-This activity covers establishment and enforcement of civil air regulations which are designed to assure the high standards of safety in aviation. Inspections are made and certificates issued for aircraft, airmen, aircraft operators, and air agencies that meet safety or competency requirements. Facility flight inspection functions and management and maintenance of Agency aircraft are also included in this activity. 5. Administration of medical standards.-This activity covers development of regulations governing the physical and mental fitness of airmen and other persons whose health affects safety in flight, health and medical pro General and special funds-Continued Personnel Summary-Continued 1963 actual OPERATIONS-Continued grams for Agency personnel, administration of an aviation medical research program, the project costs of which are financed under Research and development; and the operation of the Civil Aeromedical Research Institute building. 6. Research direction.-This activity covers direction and administrative costs of the research and development program, the direct project costs of which are financed under the Research and development appropriation; and administrative support for the operation of the National Facilities Experimental Center at Atlantic City, N.J. 7. Administration of airport program.-This activity includes costs of preparing the annual National airport plan; development of airport planning, design and construction standards; planning and engineering advisory services; administration of the Federal-aid airport program; assuring compliance of public agencies with the provisions of agreements relating to airports; and promoting airport safety. Object Classification (in thousands of dollars) FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT For an additional amount for the acquisition, establishment, and improvement by contract or purchase and hire of air navigation and experimental facilities, including the initial acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; the construction and furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and employees of the Federal Aviation Agency stationed at remote localities where such accommodations are not available (at a total cost of construction of not to exceed $50,000 per housing unit in Alaska); and purchase of [four] eight aircraft; [$100,250,000 $75,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in the establishment of air navigation facilities: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be available for the construction of a new wind tunnel. (49 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.; 49 U.S.C. 1507, 1151-1160; Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1964.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 8,674 6,922 32 Lands and structures. 5,942 154 102 111 |