PLANT AND Capital EquipMENT

For expenses of the Commission, as authorized by law, in connection with the purchase and construction of plant and the acquisition of capital equipment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary in carrying out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase of not to exceed [three hundred and eighty-four] five hundred and fifty-nine, of which four hundred and twenty-three are for replacement only [(including three at not to exceed $3,000 each)], and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase of [one] three aircraft; [$363,000,000 $250,000,000, to remain available until expended [ Provided, That not to exceed $9,000,000 of the amount appropriated herein for an isotopes production plant may be transferred to the appropriation for "Operating expenses", if the Commission determines such transfer to be necessary to enter into an arrangement for construction of all or a part of such plant by private industry]. (42 U.S.C. 2017; 78 Stat. 227; Public Works Appropriation Act, 1965; additional authorizing legislation to be proposed.)

General and special funds-Continued

PLANT AND CAPITAL EQUIPMENT-Continued

This appropriation provides for the construction of plants and facilities and for the acquisition of capital equipment, all required for the production, research and development, and supporting programs of the Atomic Energy Commission. Of the new obligational authority of $250 million being requested for 1966, $90.2 million applies to new construction projects; $700 thousand is applicable to construction projects previously authorized by the Congress; and $159.1 million is required for the acquisition of capital equipment not related to construction.

1. Raw materials.-This activity provides for minor construction to support the Government-owned procurement installations and for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $60 thousand in 1966 include $25 thousand for new construction projects and $35 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 $27.6 million in 1966 include $11.1 million for new construction projects and $16.5 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 $93.6 million in 1966 include $38.9 million for new construction projects and $54.7 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

4. Reactor development.-This activity provides for the construction and modification of developmental and laboratory facilities for fundamental engineering work on reactor concepts and materials; facilities for the housing of reactor experiments; and development and test installations. It also provides for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $67.6 million in 1966 include $33.1 million for construction projects and $34.5 million for capital equipment not related to construction. Major construction projects include a sodium pump test facility, an electron linear accelerator, and a re-entry burnup test facility.

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 $88.2 million in

1966 include $43.3 million for new construction projects, principally a bubble chamber and experimental area and a solid state science building at Argonne National Laboratory, an electron linear accelerator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, other laboratory facilities to house various research efforts, and accelerator improvements. Also included is $44.9 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

6. Biology and medicine.-This activity provides for construction of facilities for biomedical research in atomic energy and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $9.1 million in 1966 include $4.6 million for new construction projects, principally for a virus control laboratory at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and an animal laboratory at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and $4.5 million for capital equipment not related to construction. 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 $880 thousand in 1966 include $200 thousand for general plant projects and $680 thousand for capital equipment not related to construction.

8. Civilian applications of: Isotopes.-This activity provides for procurement of capital equipment not related to construction required for developing uses of radioisotopes and high-level radiation. Obligational requirements in 1966 total $2.2 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 1966 total $500 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 $3.5 million in 1966 include $2.6 million for new construction projects, $700 thousand for construction previously authorized in connection with disposal of the Los Alamos, N. Mex., community, and $186 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 $587 thousand in 1966 include $100 thousand for general plant projects and $487 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:

36,354

Financing:

Receipts and reimbursements from: Administrative budget accounts.. Non-Federal sources (42 U.S.C. 2011). 21.98 Unobligated balance available, start of year.

24.98 Unobligated balance available, end of

110.565 210,000 210,000 Receipts and other offsets (items 11-17)-107,185 -173,646 -210,000

Obligations affecting expenditures.. 72.98 Receivables in excess of obligations, start of year..

74.98 Receivables in excess of obligations,

3,380 36.354

-72,446 -64,814 -28,460

64,814 28,460 28,460 -4,252

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Any appropriation available [under this or any other Act] to the Atomic Energy Commission may initially be used subject to limitations in this Act during the fiscal year [1965] 1966 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 [1965] 1966 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 Govern ment 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, 1965.)