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105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1275
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1275
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Civilian Space
Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999''.
(b) Table of Contents.--
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Subtitle A--Authorizations
Sec. 101. Human space flight.
Sec. 102. Science, aeronautics, and technology.
Sec. 103. Mission support.
Sec. 104. Inspector General.
Sec. 105. Total authorization.
Sec. 106. Office of Commercial Space Transportation authorization.
Sec. 107. Office of Space Commerce.
Sec. 108. United States-Mexico Foundation for Science.
Subtitle B--Restructuring the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Sec. 111. Findings.
Sec. 112. Restructuring reports.
Subtitle C--Limitations and Special Authority
Sec. 121. Use of funds for construction.
Sec. 122. Availability of appropriated amounts.
Sec. 123. Reprogramming for construction of facilities.
Sec. 124. Consideration by committees.
Sec. 125. Limitation on obligation of unauthorized appropriations.
Sec. 126. Use of funds for scientific consultations or extraordinary
expenses.
Sec. 127. Mission to Planet Earth limitation.
Sec. 128. Space operations.
Sec. 129. International Space University Limitation.
TITLE II--INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Sec. 201. Findings.
Sec. 202. Commercialization of Space Station.
Sec. 203. Space Station accounting reports.
Sec. 204. Report on international hardware agreements.
Sec. 205. International Space Station limitations.
TITLE III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Commercial space launch amendments.
Sec. 302. Requirement for independent cost analysis.
Sec. 303. Office of Space Commerce.
Sec. 304. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 amendments.
Sec. 305. Procurement.
Sec. 306. Acquisition of space science data.
Sec. 307. Commercial space goods and services.
Sec. 308. Acquisition of earth science data.
Sec. 309. EOSDIS report.
Sec. 310. Shuttle privatization.
Sec. 311. Launch voucher demonstration program amendments.
Sec. 312. Use of abandoned and underutilized buildings, grounds, and
facilities.
Sec. 313. Cost effectiveness calculations.
Sec. 314. Foreign contract limitation.
Sec. 315. Authority to reduce or suspend contract payments based on
substantial evidence of fraud.
Sec. 316. Next Generation Internet.
Sec. 317. Limitations.
Sec. 318. Notice.
Sec. 319. Sense of Congress on the Year 2000 problem.
Sec. 320. National Oceanographic Partnership Program.
Sec. 321. National Science Foundation Antarctic Program.
Sec. 322. Buy American.
Sec. 323. Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of 1949 amendments.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
should aggressively pursue actions and reforms directed at
reducing institutional costs, including management
restructuring, facility consolidation, procurement reform,
personnel base downsizing, and convergence with other defense
and commercial sector systems.
(2) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration must
reverse its current trend toward becoming an operational
agency, and return to its proud history as the Nation's leader
in basic scientific, air, and space research.
(3) The United States is on the verge of creating and using
new technologies in microsatellites, information processing,
and space launches that could radically alter the manner in
which the Federal Government approaches its space mission.
(4) The overwhelming preponderance of the Federal
Government's requirements for routine, nonemergency manned and
unmanned space transportation can be met most effectively,
efficiently, and economically by a free and competitive market
in privately developed and operated space transportation
services.
(5) In formulating a national space transportation service
policy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
should aggressively promote the pursuit by commercial providers
of development of advanced space transportation technologies
including reusable space vehicles, single-stage-to-orbit
vehicles, and human space systems.
(6) The Federal Government should invest in the types of
research and innovative technology in which United States
commercial providers do not invest, while avoiding competition
with the activities in which United States commercial providers
do invest.
(7) International cooperation in space exploration and
science activities serves the United States national interest--
(A) when it--
(i) reduces the cost of undertaking
missions the United States Government would
pursue unilaterally;
(ii) enables the United States to pursue
missions that it could not otherwise afford to
pursue unilaterally; or
(iii) enhances United States capabilities
to use and develop space for the benefit of
United States citizens; and
(B) when it does not--
(i) otherwise harm or interfere with the
ability of United States commercial providers
to develop or explore space commercially;
(ii) interfere with the ability of Federal
agencies to use space to complete their
missions;
(iii) undermine the ability of United
States commercial providers to compete
favorably with foreign entities in the
commercial space arena; or
(iv) transfer sensitive or commercially
advantageous technologies or knowledge from the
United States to other countries or foreign
entities except as required by those countries
or entities to make their contribution to a
multilateral space project in partnership with
the United States, or on a quid pro quo basis.
(8) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and
the Department of Defense can cooperate more effectively in
leveraging their mutual capabilities to conduct joint space
missions that improve United States space capabilities and
reduce the cost of conducting space missions.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act--
(1) the term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
(2) the term ``commercial provider'' means any person
providing space transportation services or other space-related
activities, primary control of which is held by persons other
than Federal, State, local, and foreign governments;
(3) the term ``institution of higher education'' has the
meaning given such term in section 1201(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a));
(4) the term ``State'' means each of the several States of
the Union, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States;
and
(5) the term ``United States commercial provider'' means a
commercial provider, organized under the laws of the United
States or of a State, which is--
(A) more than 50 percent owned by United States
nationals; or
(B) a subsidiary of a foreign company and the
Secretary of Transportation finds that--
(i) such subsidiary has in the past
evidenced a substantial commitment to the
United States market through--
(I) investments in the United
States in long-term research,
development, and manufacturing
(including the manufacture of major
components and subassemblies); and
(II) significant contributions to
employment in the United States; and
(ii) the country or countries in which such
foreign company is incorporated or organized,
and, if appropriate, in which it principally
conducts its business, affords reciprocal
treatment to companies described in
subparagraph (A) comparable to that afforded to
such foreign company's subsidiary in the United
States, as evidenced by--
(I) providing comparable
opportunities for companies described
in subparagraph (A) to participate in
Government sponsored research and
development similar to that authorized
under this Act;
(II) providing no barriers to
companies described in subparagraph (A)
with respect to local investment
opportunities that are not provided to
foreign companies in the United States;
and
(III) providing adequate and
effective protection for the
intellectual property rights of
companies described in subparagraph
(A).
TITLE I--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Subtitle A--Authorizations
SEC. 101. HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for Human Space Flight the following amounts:
(1) For the Space Station--
(A) for fiscal year 1998, $2,121,300,000, of which
$400,500,000, notwithstanding section 121(a)--
(i) shall only be for Space Station
research or for the purposes described in
section 102(2); and
(ii) shall be administered by the Office of
Life and Microgravity Sciences and
Applications; and
(B) for fiscal year 1999, $2,109,200,000, of which
$496,200,000, notwithstanding section 121(a)--
(i) shall only be for Space Station
research or for the purposes described in
section 102(2); and
(ii) shall be administered by the Office of
Life and Microgravity Sciences and
Applications.
(2) For Space Shuttle Operations--
(A) for fiscal year 1998, $2,494,400,000; and
(B) for fiscal year 1999, $2,625,600,000.
(3) For Space Shuttle Safety and Performance Upgrades--
(A) for fiscal year 1998, $483,400,000, including
related Construction of Facilities for--
(i) Repair of Payload Changeout Room Wall
in Ceiling, Pad A, Kennedy Space Center,
$2,200,000;
(ii) Restoration of Pad Surface and Slope,
Kennedy Space Center, $1,800,000; and
(iii) Rehabilitation of 480V Electrical
Distribution System, Kennedy Space Center,
$2,800,000; and
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