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located within the Community having a total installed capacity of thirty-five thousand megawatts of electric energy, together with twenty-five thousand kilograms of contained uranium 235 for other purposes".

Approved August 14, 1973.

INDEX TO LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAW 93-88 (S. 1993)

(Page references are to daily editions of the Congressional Record, 93d Cong., 1st Sess.)

S. 1993 introduced by Vice Chairman Pastore (by request) June 13, 1973, S11006.

Hearing: Subcommittee on Agreements for Cooperation, June 22, 1973.
Senate Report filed (S. Rept. No. 93-341), July 24, 1973, S14441.
S. 1993 considered and passed in the Senate, without amendment,
July 26, 1973, S14743.

S. 1993 considered and passed in the House, without amendment,
July 30, 1973, H6850-52.

Examined and signed by the Speaker of the House, August 1, 1973, H7205.

Examined and signed by the President Pro Tempore, August 3, 1973, S15568.

Presented to the President, August 3, 1973, S15568.

S. 1993 approved by the President on August 14, 1973, as Public Law 93-88, D977 (Sept. 5, 1973, Record).

COMPANION BILL-H.R. 8867

H.R. 8867 introduced by Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois (by request), June 20, 1973, H5064.

Hearings: As listed above.

House Report filed (H. Rept. No. 93-385), July 19, 1973, H6418.
Identical bill, S. 1993 passed in lieu thereof as indicated above.

PART IX. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY PARTICIPATION ACT OF 1957

PUBLIC LAW 85-177 [H.R. 8992]

(71 STAT. 453)

AN ACT

To provide for the appointment of representatives of the United States in the organs of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and to make other provisions with respect to the participation of the United States in that Agency, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "International Atomic Energy Agency Participation Act of 1957".

SEC. 2. (a) The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a representative and a deputy representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency"), who shall hold office at the pleasure of the President. Such representative and deputy representative shall represent the United States on the Board of Governors of the Agency, may represent the United States at the General Conference, and may serve ex officio as United States representative on any organ of that Agency, and shall perform such other functions in connection with the participation of the United States in the Agency as the President may from time to time direct.

(b) The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint or designate from time to time to attend a specified session or specified sessions of the General Conference of the Agency a representative of the United States and such number of alternates as he may determine consistent with the rules of procedure of the General Conference.

(c) The President may also appoint or designate from time to time such other persons as he may deem necessary to represent the United States in the organs of the Agency. The President may designate any officer of the United States Government, whose appointment is subject to confirmation by the Senate, to act, without additional compensation, for temporary periods as the representative of the United States on the Board of Governors or to the General Conference of the Agency in the

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absence or disability of the representative and deputy representative appointed under section 2(a) or in lieu of such representatives in connection with a specified subject

matter.

(d) All persons appointed or designated in pursuance of authority contained in this section shall receive compensation at rates determined by the President upon the basis of duties to be performed but not in excess of rates authorized by sections 411 and 412 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 866, 867), for Chiefs of Mission and Foreign Service officers occupying positions of equivalent importance, except that no Member of the Senate or House of Representatives or officer of the United States who is designated under subsection (b) or subsection (c) of this section as a delegate or representative of the United States or as an alternate to attend any specified session or specified sessions of the General Conference shall be entitled to receive such compensation. Any person who receives compensation pursuant to the provisions of this subsection may be granted allowances and benefits not to exceed those received by Chiefs of Mission and Foreign Service officers occupying positions of equivalent importance.

SEC. 3. The participation of the United States in the International Atomic Energy Agency shall be consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of the Agency set forth in its Statute and the policy concerning the development, use, and control of atomic energy set forth in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. [The President shall, from time to time as occasion may require, but not less than once each year, make reports to the Congress on the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency and on the participation of the United States therein.] In addition to any other requirements of law, the Department of State and the Atomic Energy Commission shall keep the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, as appropriate, currently informed with respect to the activities of the Agency and the participation of the United States therein.

SEC. 4. The representatives provided for in section 2 hereof, when representing the United States in the organs of the Agency, shall, at all times, act in accordance with the instructions of the President, and such representatives shall, in accordance with such instructions, cast any and all votes under the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Public Law 89-348 (79 Stat. 1310), sec. 1(20), amended Public Law 85-177 by repealing the requirement of a report to the Congress by the President not less than once each year on the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency and on the participation of the United States therein.

SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated TIAS 3878. annually to the Department of State, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the International Atomic Energy Agency as apportioned by the Agency in accordance with paragraph (D) of article XIV of the Statute of the Agency, and for all necessary salaries and expenses of the representatives provided for in section 2 hereof and of their appropriate staffs, including personal services without regard to the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended; travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regu- 5 U.S.C. 5101. lations, as amended, the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as 5 U.S.C. 5701 amended, and section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1933, as 5 U.S.C. 5731. amended; salaries as authorized by the Foreign Service 22 U.S.C. 801 Act of 1946, as amended, or as authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and expenses and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); translating and other services, by contract; hire of passenger motor vehicles and other local transportation; printing and binding without regard to section II of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U.S.C. 111); official functions and courtesies; such sums as may be necessary to defray the expenses of United States participation in the Preparatory Commission for the Agency, established pursuant to annex I of the Statute of the Agency; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State.

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5 U.S.C. 8701.

SEC. 6. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of U.S.C. 8301. law, Executive order or regulation, a Federal employee who, with the approval of the Federal agency or the head of the department by which he is employed, leaves his position to enter the employ of the Agency shall not be considered for the purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, and the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended, as separated from his Federal position during such employment with the Agency but not to extend beyond the first three consecutive years of his entering the employ of the Agency: Provided, (1) That he shall pay to the Civil Service Commission within ninety days from the date he is separated without prejudice from the Agency all necessary deductions and agency contributions for coverage under the Civil Service Retirement Act for the period of his employment by the Agency, and (2) That all deductions and agency contributions necessary for continued coverage under the Federal Employees' Group

Public Law 89-554 (80 Stat. 416) codified sec. 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946, as 5 U.S.C. 3109.

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