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[CITE: 42USC2464a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                   CHAPTER 26--NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAM
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2464a. Payloads launched on Titan II launch vehicles; cost 
        effectiveness as against space shuttle launches
        
    The Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration will jointly determine which 
payloads will be launched on Titan II launch vehicles and certify by 
notice to the Congress that such launches are cost effective as compared 
to launches by the space shuttle and do not diminish the efficient and 
effective utilization of the space shuttle capability: Provided, That 
this section may be waived only upon certification by the Secretary of 
Defense that certain classified payloads must be launched on the Titan 
II launch vehicle as opposed to the space shuttle, for national security 
reasons.

(Pub. L. 99-190, Sec. 101(b) [title VIII, Sec. 8111], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 
Stat. 1185, 1222.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 1986, and not as part of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Act of 1958 which is classified principally to this chapter.
