Pub. L. 94-187, tit. II, sec. 201

Sec. 201. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Energy Research and Development Administration in accordance with the provisions of section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2017), section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5875), and section 16 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5915): 89 STAT. 1069 (a) For “Operating expenses”, for the following programs, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following amounts: (1) Fossil energy development.— (A) Coal liquefaction: Costs, $16,000,000. Changes in selected resources, $12,750,000. (B) High Btu gasification (coal): Costs, $7,450,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,800,000. (C) Low Btu gasification (coal): Costs, $7,300,000. Changes in selected resources, $5,350,000. Provided, That not less than 20 per centum of the funds appropriated pursuant to this subparagraph (C) shall be used for in situ processes. (D) Advanced power systems (coal): Costs, $2,050,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,450,000. (E) Direct combustion (coal): Costs, $5,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $9,800,000. (F) Advanced research and supporting technology (coal), for the following: (i) Advanced coal conversion process: Costs, $2,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,900,000. (ii) Advanced direct coal utilization process: Costs, $500,000. Changes in selected resources, $500,000. “Sec. 106. Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Demonstration Program—Fourth Round.— (a) The Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative arrangements with reactor manufacturers and others for participation in the research and development, design, construction, and operation of a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor powerplant, in accordance with criteria approved by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, without regard to the provisions of section 169 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. Appropriations are hereby authorized for the period consisting of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and the interim period following that fiscal year and ending September 30, 1976, for the aforementioned cooperative arrangements as shown in the basis for arrangements as submitted in accordance with subsection (b) hereof. In addition, ERDA may agree to provide assistance in the form of waiver of use charges during the term of the cooperative arrangements without regard to the provisions of section 53 of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, by waiving use charges in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000. “(b) Before ERDA enters into any arrangement or amendment thereto under the authority of subsection (a) of this section, the basis for the arrangement or amendment thereto which ERDA proposes to execute (including the name of the proposed participating party or parties with which the arrangement is to be made, a general description of the proposed powerplant, the estimated amount of cost to be incurred by ERDA and by the participating parties, and the general features of the proposed arrangement or amendment) shall lie submitted to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five days, there shall be excluded the days on which either 89 STAT. 1070House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days): Provided, however, That the Joint Committee, after having received the basis for a proposed arrangement or amendment, thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of all, or any portion of, such forty-five-day period: Provided, farther, That such arrangement or amendment shall be entered into in accordance with the basis for the arrangement or amendment submitted as provided herein: And provided farther, That no basis for arrangement need be resubmitted to the Joint Committee for the sole reason that the estimated amount of the cost to be incurred by ERDA exceeds the estimated cost previously submitted to the Joint Committee by not more than 15 per centum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ERDA, in each of its annual budget submissions, shall submit for the information and review of the Joint Committee in the exercise of its oversight responsibility, the anticipated obligations and costs for the ensuing fiscal year for the project authorized under subsection (a) of this section. “(c) The ERDA is hereby authorized to agree, by modification to the definitive cooperative arrangement reflecting such changes therein as it deems appropriate for such purpose, to the following: (1) to execute and deliver to the other parties to the definitive contract, the special undertakings of indemnification specified in said contract, which undertakings shall be subject to availability of appropriations to ERDA and to the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; and (2) to acquire ownership and custody of the property constituting the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor powerplant or parts thereof, and to use, decommission, and dispose of said property, as provided for in the definitive contract.” (iii) Advanced supporting research: Costs, $1,400,000. Changes in selected resources, $450,000. (iv) Systems studies: Costs, $1,400,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,600,000. (G) Demonstration plants (coal): Costs, $4,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $4,900,000. (H) Natural gas and oil extraction: Costs, $9,930,000. Changes in selected resources, $600,000. (I) Natural gas and oil utilization: Costs, $500,000. Changes in selected resources (minus) $50,000. (J) Oil shale in situ processing: Costs, $4,241,000. Changes in selected resources, $529,000. (K) Oil shale composition and characterization: Costs, $300,000. Changes in selected resources, $0. (L) Magnetohydrodynamics. Costs, $6,700,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,700,000. (2) Solar energy development.— Costs, $24,500,000. Changes in selected resources, $19,203,000. (3) Geothermal energy development.— Costs, $10,100,000. Changes in selected resources, $850,000. 89 STAT. 1071 (4) Conservation research and development.— (A) Electric Power Transmission: Costs, $2,673,000. Changes in selected resources (minus) $100,000. (B) Advanced Transportation Power Systems: Costs, $4,750,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,060,000. (C) Energy Storage Systems: Costs, $5,400,000. Changes in selected resources, $900,000. (D) End-use Conservation: Costs, $8,000,000. Changes in selected resources, $2,000,000. (E) Improved Conversion Efficiency: Costs, $3,475,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,100,000. (F) Urban Waste Conversion: Costs, $2,500,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,250,000. (5) Nuclear energy and other programs.— $914,849,000, of which a sum of dollars for the following programs equal to the total of the following amounts is included: (A) Scientific and technical education in support of Nonnuclear Energy Technologies: Costs, $1,125,000. Changes in selected resources, $337,000. (B) General new programs in Environmental and Safety Research in support of nonnuclear energy technology: Costs, $5,525,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,919,000. (C) For use as provided in section 316 of this Act: Costs, $1,000,000. Changes in selected resources, $250,000. (D) Nonpulmonary health studies on miners and people living in areas subjected to a high incidence of sulphur oxides and trace elements: Costs, $100,000. Changes in selected resources, $25,000. (E) New programs of physical research in molecular and materials sciences in support of nonnuclear technologies: Costs, $3,931,000. Changes in selected resources, $1,168,000. (F) $687,000 shall be available pursuant to sections 14 and 16 of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5913 and 5915) as follows: (i) $312,000 for the National Bureau of Standards; (ii) $125,000 for the Council on Environmental Quality; and (iii) $250,000 for the Water Resources Council. (b) For “Plant and capital equipment”, including construction, acquisition, or modification of facilities, including land acquisition; and acquisition and fabrication of capital equipment not related to construction, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the incremental amounts of the following: 89 STAT. 1072 Fossil Energy Development (1) Coal.— Project 76–1–a, clean boiler fuel demonstration plant (A–E and long-lead procurement),$8,000,000. Project 76–1–b, High Btu synthetic pipeline gas demonstration plant (A–E and long-lead procurement), $5,000,000. Project 76–1–c, Low Btu fuel gas demonstration plant (A–E and long-end procurement), $3,750,000. Project 76–1–d, Fluidized bed direct combustion demonstration plant, $3,250,000. Solar, Geothermal, and Advanced Energy Systems Development (2) Solar energy development.— Project 76–2–a, Five megawatt solar thermal test facility, $1,250,000. Project 76–2–b, Ten megawatt central receiver solar thermal powerplant (A–E and long-lead procurement),$1,250,000. (3) Geothermal energy development.— Project 76–3–a, Geothermal powerplant (steam)(A–E and long-lead procurement), $1,250,000. Project 76–3–b, Geothermal powerplant (A–E and long-lead procurement), $1,250,000. (4) Physical research.— Project 76–4–a, accelerator and reactor improvements and modifications, $1,000,000. Nuclear Energy Development (5) Fusion power research and development.— Project 76–5–a, tokamak fusion test reactor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Plainsboro, New Jersey, $7,000,000. (6) General plant projects.— $15,900,000. (7) Construction planning and design.— $1,500,000. Capital Equipment Not Related to Construction (8) Capital equipment.— Acquisition and fabrication of capital equipment not related to construction, for the following programs, a sum of dollars equal to the total of the following amounts: (A) Fossil energy development,$200,000. (B) Geothermal energy development, $200,000. (C) Conservation research and development including improved conversion efficiency, $2,900,000. (D) Physical research in molecular and materials sciences in support of nonnuclear energy technology, $1,037,000. (E) Environmental and safety research in support of nonnuclear energy technologies. $500,000. (F) Nuclear energy and other programs, $58,086,000.