§9009 Authorization of appropriations

Summary

Allows $20,000,000 to be appropriated for operating costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, in addition to amounts already allowed under section 7270. It also allows $60,000,000 for operating costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982. Also allows $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1981 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1982 for plant and capital equipment for Project 81–ES–1 (ocean thermal energy conversion demonstration plants with a combined capacity of at least 100 megawatts electrical or the energy-product equivalent, sites to be determined). These funds are only for conceptual and preliminary design work.