Basis of Assistance to Cities and Other State and local Entities.—

Sec. 91. Basis of Assistance to Cities and Other State and local Entities.— a. From the date of transfer of any municipal installations to a governmental or other entity at or for the community, the Commission shall, for a period of ten years, make annual assistance payments of just and reasonable sums to the State, county, or local entity having jurisdiction to collect property taxes or to the entity receiving the installation transferred hereunder. In determining the amount and recipient of such payments, the Commission shall consider— (1) the approximate real property taxes and assessments for local improvements which would be paid to the Governmental entity upon property within the community if such property were not exempt from taxation by reason of Federal ownership; (2) the maintaining of municipal services at a level which will not impede the recruitment or retention of personnel essential to the atomic energy program; 69 Stat. 482 (3) the fiscal problems peculiar to the governmental entity by reason of the construction at the community as a single purpose national defense installation under emergency conditions; and (4) the municipal services and other burdens imposed on the governmental or other entities at the community by the United States in its operations in the project area. b. Special interim payments may be made under the provisions of this section to any governmental entity which— (1) has a special burden due to the requirements under law imposed upon it in assisting in effectuating I he purposes of this Act for which it will not otherwise receive adequate compensation or revenues; or (2) will suffer a tax loss or lapse in place of which it will not receive any other adequate revenues until the new governmental entities contemplated by this chapter are receiving their normal taxes and performing their normal functions, c. Payments made under this section shall be payments made for special burdens imposed on the local governmental entities in accordance with the second sentence of section 168 of the Atomic Energy Act of 15)54. Payments may be made under this section notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), as amended. d. With respect to any entity not less than six months prior to the expiration of the ten-year period inferred to in subsection a, the Commission shall present to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy its recommendation as to the need for any further contribution payments to such entity. If it recommends further contribution payments, it shall propose a definite schedule of such contribution payments which will provide for an orderly and reasonably prompt withdrawal of the Atomic Energy Commission from participation in and contribution toward local government.