National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration research and development For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including research, development, operations, services, minor construction, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and modification of real and personal property; purchase, hire, maintenance, and operation of other than administrative aircraft, necessary for the conduct and support of aeronautical and space research and development activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; $5,366,050,000, to remain available until September 30, 1991: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading, $1,800,000,000 is for the Space Station Program only, $7 50,000,000 of which shall not become available for obligation until June 1, 1990, and pursuant to section 202(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987, this action is a necessary (but secondary) result of a significant policy change: Provided farther, That of the funds made available under this heading, $320,000,000 is for space transportation capability development only, which amount shall not become available for obligation until April 15, 1990, and pursuant to section 202(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987, this action is a necessary (but secondary) result of a significant policy change: Provided farther, That of $2,064,600,000 made available under this heading for space science and applications, only $1,000,000,000 shall be available prior to April 1, 1990, and pursuant to section 202(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987, this action is a necessary (but secondary) result of a significant policy change: Provided farther, That no hinds appropriated by this Act or any other Act may be used to enter into contracts of the National Aeronautics and Space 103 STAT. 862Administration for the comet rendezvous and asteroid flyby and Cassini missions (CRAF/Cassini) if the estimated total budget authority for development of the two spacecraft, through launch plus 30 days of the Cassini mission, exceeds $1,600,000,000. space flight, control and data communications For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for; in support of space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including operations, production, services, minor construction, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and modification of real and personal property; tracking and data relay satellite services as authorized by law; purchase, hire, maintenance and operation of other than administrative aircraft; $4,614,600,000, to remain available until September 30, 1991: Provided, That of the funds made available under this heading, $1,400,000,000 is for space transportation system only, which amount shall not become available for obligation until April 15, 1990, and pursuant to section 202(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987, this action is a necessary (but secondary) result of a significant policy change: Provided further, That $75,000,000 of the funds appropriated in section 101(g) of Public Law 99–591 for orbiter production shall be available until September 30, 1991, for all expenses of this account. construction of facilities (including transfer of funds) For construction, repair, rehabilitation and modification of facilities, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and for facility planning and design not otherwise provided, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and for the acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law, $601,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 1992: Provided, That, notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds appropriated under this heading by this appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated by the incurrence of obligations therefor, the amount available for such activity shall remain available until expended, except that this provision shall not apply to the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization for repair, rehabilitation and modification of facilities, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, and facility planning and design: Provided further, That no amount appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act may be used for the lease or construction of a new contractor-funded facility for exclusive use in support of a contract or contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under which the Administration would be required to substantially amortize through payment or reimbursement such contractor investment, unless an appropriations Act specifies the lease or contract pursuant to which such facilities are to be constructed or leased or such facility is otherwise identified in such Act: Provided further, That the Administrator may authorize such facility lease or construction, if he determines, in consultation with the Committees on Appropriations, that deferral of such action until the enactment of the next appropriations Act 103 STAT. 863would be inconsistent with the interest of the Nation in aeronautical and space activities: Provided further, That up to $152,000,000 of the funds provided by this paragraph may be transferred to and merged with sums appropriated for “Space flight, control and data communications” and/or “Research and program management”: Provided further, That of the amounts transferred under the authority of the foregoing proviso, not to exceed $85,000,000 may be for “Space flight, control and data communications”, and not to exceed $67,000,000 may be for “Research and program management”: Provided further, That in addition to the foregoing transfers, up to $25,000,000 of the funds provided by this paragraph may be transferred to and merged with sums appropriated for “Research and development”. research and program management For necessary expenses of research in Government laboratories, management of programs and other activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C, 5901–5902); awards; lease, hire, purchase of one aircraft for replacement only (for which partial payment may be made by exchange of at least one existing administrative aircraft and such other existing aircraft as may be considered appropriate), maintenance and operation of administrative aircraft; purchase (not to exceed thirty-three for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and maintenance and repair of real and personal property, and not in excess of $100,000 per project for construction of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, repairs, and rehabilitation and modification of facilities; $1,982,200,000: Provided, That contracts may be entered into under this appropriation for maintenance and operation of facilities, and for other services, to be provided during the next fiscal year: Provided further, That not to exceed $35,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available for scientific consultations or extraordinary expense, to be expended upon the approval or authority of the Administrator and his determination shall be final and conclusive: Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, up to $195,000 may be transferred to the “Office of Inspector General”: Provided further, That the grade retention provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5362 shall remain available to Goddard Space Flight Center employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, displaced by the conversion on September 3, 1989, of their civil service positions to private sector positions, from the time an affected employee is placed in a lower graded position until one or more of the conditions of 5 U.S.C. 5362(d) is met. office of inspector general For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, $8,795,000. administrative provisions small and disadvantaged business The NASA Administrator shall annually establish a goal of at least 8 per centum of the total value of prime and subcontracts awarded in support of authorized programs, including the space 103 STAT. 864 station by the time operational status is obtained, which funds will be made available to small business concerns or other organizations owned or controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (within the meaning of section 8(a) (5) and (6) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a) (5) (6)), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority educational institutions (as defined by the Secretary of Education pursuant to the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.)). To facilitate progress in reaching this goal, the NASA Administrator shall submit within one year from enactment of this Act a plan describing the process to be followed to achieve the prescribed level of participation in the shortest practicable time. polar platform Of the funds made available in this Act for space station development, not more than $10,700,000 shall be reduced from the $107,000,000 requested for work performed on or under the work package numbered 3 prime contract (polar platform).