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[CITE: 42USC2303]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 24--DISPOSAL OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2303. Purpose of chapter

    It is the purpose of this chapter to effectuate the policies set 
forth above by providing for--
        (a) the maintenance of conditions which will not impede the 
    recruitment and retention of personnel essential to the atomic 
    energy program;
        (b) the obligation of the United States to contribute to the 
    support of municipal functions in a manner commensurate with--
            (1) the fiscal problems peculiar to the communities by 
        reason of their construction as national defense installations, 
        and
            (2) the municipal and other burdens imposed on the 
        governmental or other entities at the communities by the United 
        States in its operations at or near the communities;

        (c) the opportunity for the residents of the communities to 
    assume the obligations and privileges of local self-government; and
        (d) the encouragement of the construction of new homes at the 
    communities.

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 1, Sec. 13, 69 Stat. 472.)
