"SEC. 716. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, and the Atomic Energic Commission, such sums as may be necessary, to remain available until expended, for the construction, outfitting, and preparation for operation, including training of qualified personnel, of a nuclear-powered merchant ship capable of providing shipping services on routes essential for maintaining the flow of the foreign commerce of the United States. The Maritime Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission, in carrying on activities and functions under this paragraph, may collaborate with and employ persons, firms and corporations on a contract or fee basis for the performance of special services deemed necessary by such agencies in carrying on such activities and functions. The Administration may, for the same purposes, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and where appropriate the Atomic Energy Commission, avail itself of the use of licenses, information, services, facilities, offices, and employees of any executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Government, including any field service thereof." Approved July 30, 1956. Public Law 848, 84th Cong.-H. R. 6243 To authorize the construction of a nuclear-powered merchant ship to promote the peacetime application of atomic energy, and for other purposes. (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 1st sess.) Mr. Bonner; Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 6368. Rules suspended, passed House, 10806, 10807. Referred to Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 10916. (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 2d sess.) Amended and passed Senate, 10650. Title amended, 10657. House disagrees to Senate amendment and asks for conference, 10924. Senate insists on its amendments and agrees to conferences, 10949. Conferees appointed, 10949. Conference report submitted in House and agreed to, 14120. Conference report (S. 2870) submitted in Senate and agreed to, 13964. Presented to the President, 14588. Approved [Public Law 848], 15302. S. 2523-Companion bill (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 1st sess.) Mr. Magnuson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Clements, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 10380. Reported (S. Rept. 1035), 11005. Referred to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 11005. Reported with amendments (S. Rept. 1269), 12189. Objected to, 12870. (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 2d sess.) Objected to, 528, 5009. Consent requested to take bill from calendar and recommit it to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 7787. Recommitted to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 7874. Reported with amendments (S. Rept. 2258), 10437. Indefinitely postponed (H. R. 6243 passed in lieu), 10650. APPENDIX L PAY OF RECESS APPOINTEE [PUBLIC LAW 337-84тH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 697—1ST SESSION] [H. R. 7684] AN ACT To authorize the Atomic Energy Commission to pay the salary of a Commissioner during the recess of the Senate, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, AUTHORIZATION SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 669; 5 U. S. C. 56), the United States Atomic Energy Commission is authorized to pay the salary of any person appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate to fill the presently existing vacancy on the Atomic Energy Commission: Provided, That a nomination to fill such vacancy shall be submitted to the Senate not later than forty days after the commencement of the next succeeding session of the Senate. LIMITATION SEC. 2. The authority granted in section 1 hereof shall not extend beyond the recess of the Senate next following the session of Congress during which this Act is enacted. SEC. 3. The fifth sentence of section 21 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is amended to read as follows: "Each member of the Commission, including the Chairman, shall have equal responsibility and authority in all decisions and actions of the Commission, shall have full access to all information relating to the performance of his duties or responsibilities, and shall have one vote." Approved August 9, 1955. (For legislative history of Public Law 337, see p. 64.) To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 8. All land and interests in land, owned by the United States within the boundaries of the County of Los Alamos, State of New Mexico, containing approximately seventy thousand eight hundred acres, are hereby transferred, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, to the Atomic Energy Commission. The Atomic Energy Commission shall exercise administrative control over all land and interests in land transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission by this Act, notwithstanding the manner of their acquisition by the United States nor their status at any time prior to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 9. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission, without compensation therefor, for use in connection with the Atomic Energy program, all that real property and interests therein, comprising approximately two hundred acres, of the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, Weldon Spring, Missouri, as delineated on map designated exhibit A attached to "Department of the Army Permit to Use Weldon Spring Ordnance Works Military Reservation, Missouri," dated January 25, 1955, on file in the Atomic Energy Commission, and all or any part of the personal property therein at the time of approval of this Act: Provided, That when the Atomic Energy Commission, or its successor in functions, determines that the real property herein authorized for transfer is no longer required for the purposes stated, the real property, together with buildings and permanent improvements thereon at the date of such determination, shall, at the option of the Secretary of the Army, be returned to the Department of the Army without compensation therefor. SEC. 10. There is hereby retroceded to the State of Kentucky the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore acquired from the State of Kentucky by the United States of America, over lands in McCracken County, Kentucky, within the present boundaries of the Paducah Project of the Atomic Energy Commission. This retrocession of jurisdiction shall take effect in accordance with the law of the State of Kentucky. Approved August 6, 1956. (For legislative history of Public Law 1006, see appendix A, p. 120.) APPENDIX N INDEX TO ATOMIC ENERGY ACT OF 1954, AS AMENDED Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. President approval.... Procedure on agreements, for mutual defense purposes... Production of special nuclear material__ Section 161 e 43 261 66 55 21 203 181 29, 182 b 103, 104 124 123 c 123 b 123 d 57 a 144 64 54 170 c, 170 d, 170 e 125 Real-estate acquisition or construction Military Liaison Committee__ Army, Navy, or Air Force officers: Division of Military Application, serving as Director of.. Army, Navy, and Air Force, Departments of, representatives assigned to Military Liaison Committee, serving as Chairman of- Artificial enrichment_ Assistant General Manager.. Association as "person". Atomic energy: Defined 31 a, 102, 104 b Component parts of facilities.... Exclusions... License required...... Finding of practical value. Medical therapy and research and development_ Operators' licenses.. War or national emergency. 105 106 103 109 110 102 101 104 107 108 91 11 d 124 142 142 11 d 11 i 11 s 151 91 a, 91 b 91 a 105 b Acquisition of special nuclear material.. Agreements for cooperation. 11 b, 54, 64, 82, 103, 104, 123, 124, 144 Contract practices__ Disposition of energy. Electric-utility contracts.. Determination that other material is special nuclear material. Determination that other material is source material_ _ Disposition of energy- 165 44 164 145 161 169 41 152 162 68 31 11 f 51 61 44 |