Research in high energy physics is expected to expand in 1967 as existing accelerators are improved and the new linear accelerator at Stanford phases into operation. The increase in medium energy physics (50 Mev-1,000 Mev) is attributed principally to the proposed Los Alamos meson physics facility. The increase in low energy physics is due primarily to the operation of new research tools authorized in prior years and more intensive operation of older facilities. Chemistry and metallurgical research are aimed at advancing basic knowledge related to practical operations of the atomic energy program. The objective of thermonuclear plasma research is to determine whether the energy released by thermonuclear reactions can be controlled and made useful. Approximately 75% of this program is conducted at 10 sites owned by or operated for the Commission, and the remainder is supported and conducted in more than 125 universities, colleges, institutes, and independent laboratories. 6. Biology and medicine.-Research is conducted on the effects of radiation on living organisms and on the environment, protection against the injurious effects of radiation, and development of methods for utilizing radioactive materials in the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of human diseases, such as cancer. The program includes the measurement of radioactivity (including fallout) in the atmosphere, soils, and surface waters for the establishment of standards to insure that AEC activities are conducted with safety. The program recognizes the responsibilities of other Government agencies conducting programs in biomedical research. The major portion of the research is conducted by 18 laboratories which are owned by or operated for the Commission, and the remainder is supported in more than 230 universities, colleges, hospitals, and independent laboratories. In addition, research is conducted in Japan to determine the long-term effects of atomic bomb radiation on the affected population. 7. Training, education, and information. This program includes specialized training courses; graduate and postdoctoral fellowships and traineeships; assistance to schools, faculties and students; operation of the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center; dissemination of scientific and technical information; and operation of nuclear science and technology demonstrations and exhibits. In fiscal year 1967, AEC will provide approximately 571 fellowships and traineeships beyond the undergraduate level, compared to a level of 508 in 1966 and 397 in 1965. Special emphasis will be given to providing traineeships at developing centers of excellence and granting fellowships to graduate students to perform thesis research at AEC laboratories. Assistance to schools includes grants for acquisition of nuclear training equipment, teaching aids, demonstration apparatus, and special laboratory equipment. University summer and academic year institutes in radiobiology and other subjects in the field of radiation science are made available to high school and university science teachers. The cooperative use of specialized atomic energy laboratory facilities and staff in assisting the educational programs of colleges and universities throughout the country will continue to increase. In order to facilitate the transfer of certain regulatory functions from AEC to the States, training courses and on-the-job orientation are conducted in radiation safety, radiological health protection, waste disposal, etc., for State and local government employees. To broaden the dissemination of information on atomic energy, technical information services are provided at both a technical and popular level. The results of scientific research and technical developments are systematically made available to other Government agencies and to the general public. Public understanding of atomic energy is aided by nuclear science demonstrations and exhibits. 8. Isotopes development. This program supports the development of a variety of new uses of radioisotopes and high level radiation. Particular emphasis is given to development of isotopic power and heat sources for space and terrestrial applications, to development of isotopic measuring and diagnostic systems, and to development of technology for radiation pasteurization of foods. The program is designed to promote, encourage, and utilize industrial participation and cooperation. 9. Civilian applications of nuclear explosives.—This program (Plowshare) provides for the development of peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Emphasis in 1967 will be on the development of explosives and technology for nuclear excavation, as well as continuation of promising work on explosives capable of producing heavy ele ments for scientific research. million includes $7.7 million for the Los Alamos com10. Communities.-The program estimate of $10.1 munity of which $3 million is for assistance payments to schools and to the hospital and $4.7 million is for operation of the town. The remaining $2.4 million is for assistance payments to the former AEC communities of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Richland, Wash. All assistance payments are in accordance with the Atomic Energy Community Act of 1955, as amended. 11. Program direction and administration.—This program includes the salaries and other costs for employees engaged in executive direction, general management, and technical supervision of the atomic energy program and in the establishment and enforcement of regulations for civilian uses of atomic energy. Employees are located in the Washington headquarters and the field. The 1967 increase of $3.2 million is to meet the cost of 5,628 employees, which is 88 employees over the June 30, 1966 end strength of 5,540. General and special funds-Continued OPERATING EXPENSES-Continued 12. Security investigations.-The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, requires background investigations of those persons proposed for access to restricted data of the atomic energy program. The number of full background investigations to be requested in 1967 is estimated at 13,277 compared with 13,729 for 1966 and 12,912 for 1965. 13. Cost of work for others.-In furthering the objective of widespread utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, AEC, when requested, furnishes materials and services to industrial organizations and other private parties. Charges made for such products and services are reflected in the budget under receipts and reimbursements from non-Federal sources (revenues applied) and are applied as a source of funds, thereby reducing the amount of appropriations required. The items included are (in thousands of dollars): Cost of products sold.. 1965 actual 1966 estimate 1967 estimate Cost of services performed. 25.1 Other services.. 234 1965 actual 1966 estimate 1967 estimate 5,752 19,000 4,230 Income from lease of materials, consumption charges for special nuclear Personnel Summary materials and interest on deferred For expenses of the Commission, as authorized by law, in connection with the purchase and construction of plant and the acquisition of capital equipment and other expenses incidental thereto necessary in carrying out the purposes of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; purchase of not to exceed five hundred and fifty-nine] four hundred and fifty-one, [of which four hundred and twenty-three are] for replacement only, of which six for police-type use may exceed by $300 each the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and pur chase of [three] one aircraft; [$243,995,000 $278,200,000 to re This appropriation provides for the construction of main available until expended. (42 U.S.C. 2017; 79 Stat. 120; 79 plants and facilities and for the acquisition of capital Stat. 1106; additional authorizing legislation to be proposed.) 1967 estimate 90 25,330 97,880 879 6,300 2,146 55 34,884 3. Weapons.- 4. Reactor development. 60 50,330 120,407 122,155 110,037 103,118 5. Physical research.. 6. Biology and medicine.... 7. Training, education, and information. 1,841 505 1,450 295,200 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year.-232,911-218,725 -17,000 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year. 218,725 priation). equipment required for the production, research and development, and supporting programs of the Atomic Energy Commission. Of the new obligational authority of $278.2 million being requested for 1967, $78.8 million applies to new construction projects, $49.0 million is applicable to construction projects previously authorized by the Congress, and $150.4 million is required for the acquisition of capital equipment not related to construction. The funds applicable to previously authorized projects are primarily to provide additional design funds for a high intensity accelerator at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for basic research in meson physics and to complete the funding of a project to increase the intensity characteristic of the high energy Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. New projects in the reactor development program include two facilities for the liquid metal fast breeder program: a fast flux test facility expected to cost about $75 million, for which initial design funds are requested, and a fast neutron generator at Argonne National Laboratory to make certain physics measurements necessary to the breeder program. Also included is $10 million to expand and modify the naval reactor facility at the National Reactor Test Station in Idaho to permit the development of improved naval reactors. Other significant construction projects include a new 278,200 biology laboratory for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory and two facilities to develop methods to produce and utilize radioisotopic fuels for SNAP devices (satellite and small power sources). 295,200 446,340 377,186 364,856 340,000 305,000 A wide variety of capital equipment is procured to fill the various needs of all operating programs. Such needs range from routine replacement of worn out and obsolete equipment to procurement of new research devices. The 1967 level will be lower than current levels, largely because of a reduced program for procurement of automatic data processing equipment. 1 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: 1964, $312,435 thousand: 1965, $325,706 thousand; 1966. $419,934 thousand; 1967, $405,221 thousand. "Navy management fund." "Other procurement." "Shipbuilding and conversion." National Aeronautics and Space Administration: "Construction of facilities." Total number of permanent positions.......... Average grade, grades established by the Atomic Average salary, salaries established by the Atomic Energy Commission.......... $17,395 $14,536 $14,662 GENERAL PROVISIONS Any appropriation available to the Atomic Energy Commission may initially be used subject to limitations in this Act during the current fiscal year [1966] to finance the procurement of materials, services, or other costs which are a part of work or activities for which funds have been provided in any other appropriation available to the Commission: Provided, That appropriate transfers or adjustments between such appropriations shall subsequently be made for such costs on the basis of actual application determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Not to exceed 5 per centum of appropriations made available for the current fiscal year [1966] for "Õperating expenses" and "Plant and capital equipment" may be transferred between such appropriations, but neither such appropriation, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be increased by more than 5 per centum by any such transfers, and any such transfers shall be reported promptly to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. No part of any appropriation herein shall be used to confer a fellowship on any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence or with respect to whom the Commission finds, upon investigation and report by the Civil Service Commission on the character, associations, and loyalty of whom, that reasonable grounds exist for belief that such person is disloyal to the Government of the United States: Provided, That any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment or a fellowship the salary, wages, stipend, grant, or expenses for which are paid from any appropriation contained herein shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. (42 U.S.C. 2011; 79 Stat. 1106.) FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY The functions of the Federal Aviation Agency include (a) encouraging and fostering the development of civil aeronautics and air commerce in the United States and abroad; (b) management of the use of navigable airspace and the regulation of both civil and military operations in such airspace; (c) installation and operation of aids to air navigation and traffic control for civil and military aircraft; (d) the conduct of research to develop facilities required to modernize the systems and devices used in assuring safety in aviation; (e) the conduct of medical research relating to the human factors affecting safety in civil aviation; (f) certification as to the competency of airmen and the airworthiness of aircraft; (g) development of standards and rules designed to promote safety; and (h) the administration of grants for airport construction. General and special funds: OPERATIONS For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Agency, not otherwise provided for, including administrative expenses for research and development and for establishment of air navigation facilities, and carrying out the provisions of the Federal Airport Act; not to exceed $10,000 for representation allowances and for official entertainment; [purchase of four passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; [$547,039,000 $561,500,000: Provided, That total costs of aviation medicine, including equipment, for the Federal Aviation Agency, whether provided in the foregoing appropriation or elsewhere in this Act, shall not exceed [$6,760,000] $6,908,000 or include in excess of 406 positions: Provided further, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of air navigation facilities. (49 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.; 49 U.S.C. 1151-1160; 50 U.S.C. App. 1622(g); Convention on International Civil Aviation, 61 Stat. 1180; Convention on International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft, 4 U.S.T. 1830, 1953; Executive Order 11048 and related regulations (27 F.R. 8887; 8855), and 10 U.S.C. 4655; Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1966.) Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars) 1. Operation of traffic control system. This activity covers the operation on a daily 24-hour basis of a national system of air traffic management in the United States and its possessions. With the aid of radar, communications, and other facilities, traffic management personnel at 28 centers monitor and control en route flights of civil and military aircraft conducted under instrument conditions to assure safety and to expedite the flow of traffic. Control towers are operated at 300 major civil airports to guide traffic movements on and in the vicinity of the airports. Some 343 domestic and international flight service stations transmit weather and other information to pilots and relay traffic control data between ground controllers and pilots. Increases in 1967 for operating newly commissioned air traffic control facilities are offset by improved productivity and other cost reduction measures. 1961. 1962 10 2. Installation and materiel services.. 3. Maintenance of traffic control system... 4. Administration of flight standards program.... 5. Administration of medical program.. 6. Research direction..... 7. Administration of airports program. Total obligations...... 222,411 232,496 236,069 66,490 68,880 70,960 141,633 145,424 145,215 83,086 84,153 83,210 3,949 4,710 4,940 10,799 10,710 10,645 9,649 10,116 10,461 538,017 556,489 561,500 13,883 551,900 556,489 561,500 551,900 547,039 561,500 43 Appropriation (adjusted). 551,900 44 Proposed supplemental for civilian pay increase.... -50 546,989 561,500 9,500 2. Installation and materiel service. This activity covers the direction and engineering services related to the establishment and improvement of facilities and equipments in the traffic control system; procurement, contracting, and materiel management programs; supply support and leased communications services for the traffic control system; and supply support for Agency aircraft except for aircraft related to research and development programs. Increases in 1967 are to provide supply support and leased communications services for air traffic control and air navigation facilities. These added costs are offset in part by the discontinuance of nonessential facilities, and more efficient manpower utilization. 3. Maintenance of traffic control system.-This activity covers the technical operation and maintenance of a national network of air navigation and traffic control aids in the United States and its possessions. Increases in 1967 are for (1) maintenance of newly commissioned air traffic control and navigation aids procured and installed with funds appropriated under Facilities and equipment; (2) assumption of maintenance responsibility of aviation |