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[CITE: 42USC2459c]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 26--NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2459c. Contracts regarding expendable launch vehicles

    (a) The Administrator may enter into contracts for expendabe \1\ 
launch vehicle services that are for periods in excess of the period for 
which funds are otherwise available for obligation, provide for the 
payment for contingent liability which may accrue in excess of available 
appropriations in the event the Government for its convenience 
terminates such contracts, and provide for advance payments reasonably 
related to launch vehicle and related equipment, fabrication, and 
acquisition costs, if any such contract limits the amount of the 
payments that the Federal Government is allowed to make under such 
contract to amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Such 
contracts may be limited to sources within the United States when the 
Administrator determines that such limitation is in the public interest.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``expendable''.
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    (b) If funds are not available to continue any such contract, the 
contract shall be terminated for the convenience of the Government, and 
the costs of such contract shall be paid from appropriations originally 
available for performance of the contract, from other, unobligated 
appropriations currently available for the procurement of launch 
services, or from funds appropriated for such payments.

(Pub. L. 85-568, title III, Sec. 311, as added Pub. L. 100-147, title I, 
Sec. 117, Oct. 30, 1987, 101 Stat. 867.)
