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[CITE: 42USC2204a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
          CHAPTER 23--DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
 
                        Division A--Atomic Energy
 
            SUBCHAPTER XIII--GENERAL AUTHORITY OF COMMISSION
 
Sec. 2204a. Fission product contracts


(a) Authority to enter into contracts

    Without regard to sections 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) Cancellation

    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) Submission to Energy Committees

    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.

(Pub. L. 88-332, Sec. 107, June 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 230; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 15(h), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4593.)

                       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), ``sections 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, Sec. 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''.

                          Transfer of Functions

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