General and special funds--Continued

[PLANT ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION]-Continued

PLANT AND CAPITAL EQUIPMENT-Continued

this heading so that comparable data is shown for the three years.

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 $37 thousand in 1964 include $25 thousand for new projects requiring authorization and $12 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 $60.9 million in 1964 include $32 million for new projects requiring authorization and $28.9 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 $108.4 million in 1964 include $43.7 million for new projects requiring authorization and $64.7 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

4. Reactor development. This activity provides for the construction of: (a) laboratory buildings for fundamental engineering work on reactor concepts and materials, (b) facilities for the housing of reactor experiments, (c) civilian power experimental reactors generating electrical energy or producing over 10,000 kilowatts of heat, and (d) development and test installations. It also provides for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $143.9 million in 1964 include $115.4 million for new projects requiring authorization. A major project will be a large spectral shift control reactor, to be built cooperatively with the utility industry. In order to give emphasis to the development of reactors which produce more fuel than they consume ("breeders"), a fast reactor test facility and a thorium-uranium fuel cycle develop ment facility will be initiated in 1964. Other important projects include a prototype military compact reactor and nuclear safety engineering test facilities. Also included is $28.5 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

5. Physical research. This activity provides for construction of large research machines and laboratory buildings, and for procurement of capital equipment necessary to support the operating program. It includes construction and modification 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 re

quirements of $91.7 million in 1964 include $18.6 million for new projects requiring authorization, principally for a very large Van de Graaff facility for low energy physics. research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and for accelerator improvements. Also included is $36 million for the Stanford linear electron accelerator previously authorized and $37.1 million for capital equipment not related to construction, including an accelerator for low energy physics research.

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 $6.2 million in 1964 include $2.6 million for new projects requiring authorization and $3.6 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

7. Training, education, and information.-This activity provides for minor construction in connection with the Commission's training program, and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $0.7 million in 1964 include $0.2 million for new projects requiring authorization and $0.5 million for capital equipment not related to con

struction.

8. Civilian applications of isotopes and nuclear explosives-Isotopes. This activity provides for the construction of facilities required for research and development directed toward beneficial utilization of isotopes, and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements in 1964 totaling $2.2 million are for capital equipment not related to construction.

Nuclear explosives.-This activity provides for procurement of capital equipment not related to construction to support the operating program.

9. Communities. This activity provides for improvements and additions to community facilities at Los Alamos, N. Mex., and for procurement of capital equipment to support the operating program. Obligational requirements of $6.2 million in 1964 include $1.8 million for new projects requiring authorization, $4.3 million for projects previously authorized, and $0.1 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

10. Administration. 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 $0.7 million in 1964 include $0.1 million for new projects requiring authorization and $0.6 million for capital equipment not related to construction.

11. Construction planning and design. This activity, new this year, would permit the development of more precise information on the characteristics of a proposed project and the development of a sound and reliable estimate of cost prior to proposing such a project for authorization.

The costs to this appropriation and the financing of these projects are analyzed in the following table (in thousands of dollars):

application determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Not to exceed 5 per centum of appropriations made available for the fiscal year [1963] 1964 for "Operating expenses" and ["Plant acquisition and construction"] "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, 1963.)

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) management of the use of navigable airspace and the regulation of both civil and military operations in such airspace, (c) installation and operation of aids to air navigation and traffic control for civil and military aircraft, (d) the conduct of research to develop facilities required to modernize the systems and devices used in assuring safety in aviation, (e) the conduct of medical research relating to the human factors affecting safety in civil aviation, (f) certification as to the competency of airmen and the airworthiness of aircraft, (g) development of standards and rules designed to promote safety, and (h) the administration of 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 [three] fourteen passenger motor vehicles, of which thirteen are for replacement only; and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; [$480,000,000 $545,500,000: 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 $5,100,000 or include in excess of 315 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. 1151-1160; 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, 1963.)

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

1. Traffic management. 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 33 centers monitor and control enroute 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 273 major civil airports to guide traffic. movements on and in the vicinity of the airports. Some 348 domestic and international flight service stations. transmit weather and other essential information to pilots and relay traffic control data between ground controllers and pilots. Major increases in 1964 are for (a) operating newly commissioned air traffic control facilities procured and installed with funds appropriated under Facilities and equipment, (b) funding of certain aircraft movement information services formerly budgeted by the Department of Defense, and (c) full-year cost of facilities and services operated on a part-year basis in 1963.

TRENDS IN VOLUME OF AIR TRAFFIC

hours flown

26.3

5.1

11.3

31.5

-150

697

Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)—Continued

1962 actual

1963 1964 estimate estimate

General and special funds-Continued

OPERATIONS-Continued

3. Administration of flight standards program.-This activity covers the establishment and enforcement of the civil air regulations which are designed to assure 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. Certain civil and military facility flight inspection functions are also included in this activity. Increases in 1964 are primarily for (a) strengthening enforcement of air safety regulations and (b) full-year cost of services financed on a part-year basis in 1963.

4. Administration of medical standards.-This activity covers the development of regulations governing the physical and mental fitness of airmen and other persons whose health affects safety in flight; the development and supervision of a health and medical program for Agency personnel; the 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.

5. Research direction. This activity covers (a) the direction and administration of the research and development program, the direct project costs of which are financed under the Research and development appropriation and (b) administrative support for the operation of the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center at Atlantic City, N.J.

6. 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 safety at the Nation's airports. Increases in 1964 expand the civil airport ground safety program.

Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)

For an additional amount for the acquisition, establishment, and experimental facilities, including the initial acquisition of necessary improvement by contract or purchase and hire of air navigation and 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 [six] four aircraft [$125,000,000] $127,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That there may be credited to ities, other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses this appropriation funds received from States, counties, municipalincurred 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, 1963.)

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

1962 1963 1964 actual estimate estimate