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[CITE: 42USC2463]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 26--NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2463. Tracking and data relay satellite services; report to 
        Congressional committees; authorization to contract
        
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is authorized, 
when so provided in an appropriation Act, to enter into and to maintain 
a contract for tracking and data relay satellite services. Such services 
shall be furnished to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
in accordance with applicable authorization and appropriations Acts. The 
Government shall incur no costs under such contract prior to the 
furnishing of such services except that the contract may provide for the 
payment for contingent liability of the Government which may accrue in 
the event the Government should decide for its convenience to terminate 
the contract before the end of the period of the contract. Facilities 
which may be required in the performance of the contract may be 
constructed on Government-owned lands if there is included in the 
contract a provision under which the Government may acquire title to the 
facilities, under terms and conditions agreed upon in the contract, upon 
termination of the contract.
    The Administrator shall in January of each year report to the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate the projected aggregate contingent 
liability of the Government under termination provisions of any contract 
authorized in this section through the next fiscal year. The authority 
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to enter into and 
to maintain the contract authorized hereunder shall remain in effect 
unless repealed by legislation enacted by the Congress after July 30, 
1977.

(Pub. L. 95-76, Sec. 6, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 315; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 15(c)(3), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4592.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration Authorization Act, 1978, and not as part of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 which is classified principally to 
this chapter.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the 
following prior appropriation authorization acts:
    Pub. L. 94-307, Sec. 6, June 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 680.
    Pub. L. 94-39, Sec. 6, June 19, 1975, 89 Stat. 221.
    Pub. L. 93-316, Sec. 7, June 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 243.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Science, Space, and Technology'' 
for ``Science and Technology'' in second par.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Science of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
