§2204a — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Commission may make fission products from its reactors available for commercial use. It can sign contracts for whatever time it thinks is needed, and it can charge or not charge. It may do this without following certain federal spending rules in title 31 (sections 1341, 1342, 1349–1351 and subchapter II). The Commission can end any such contract if it pays the cancellation costs the contract calls for, and money appropriated to the Commission can be used to pay those costs. Before making or changing a contract, the Commission must send the proposal and background to the Energy Committees (as defined in section 2014) and wait 45 days while Congress is in session, excluding days when either House is out for more than three days. The Energy Committees can waive all or part of the waiting time in writing.

Title 42, §2204a

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(a)Without regard to section 1341, 1342, and 1349–1351 and subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, the Commission is authorized to enter into contracts for such periods of time as the Commission may deem necessary or desirable, for the purpose of making available fission products from Commission reactors, with or without charge for commercial application.

(b)Any contract entered into by the Commission pursuant to this section shall be subject to termination by the Commission upon payment of cancellation costs as provided in such contract, and any appropriation presently or hereafter made available to the Commission shall be available for payment of such costs which may arise from termination as the contract may provide.

(c)Before the Commission enters into any arrangement or amendment thereto under the authority of this section, the basis for the proposed arrangement or amendment thereto which the Commission proposes to execute (with necessary background and explanatory data) shall be submitted to the Energy Committees (as defined by section 2014 of this title), 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 House is not in session because of adjournment of more than three days: Provided, however, That the Energy Committees, after having received the basis for the proposed arrangement or amendment thereto, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of, or all or any portion of, such forty-five-day period.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Commission, referred to in text, probably means the Atomic Energy Commission in view of the fact that this section was enacted as part of the act authorizing appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission. Codification In subsec. (a), “section 1341, 1342, and 1349–1351 and subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31” substituted for “section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended [31 U.S.C. 665]” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance. Section was not enacted as part of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Energy Committees (as defined by section 2014 of this title)” for “Joint Committee” after “submitted to the” and “Energy Committees” for “Joint Committee” after “That the”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by section 5814 and 5841 of this title. See, also, notes set out under those sections.

§2204a Fission Product Contracts