thereof, shall be punished by death or imprisonment for life (but the penalty of death or imprisonment for life may be imposed only upon recommendation of the jury), or by a fine of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both; "b. communicates, transmits, or discloses the same to any individual or person, or attempts or conspires to do any of the foregoing, with reason to believe such data will be utilized to injure the United States or to secure an advantage to any foreign nation, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both. "SEC. 225. RECEIPT OF RESTRICTED DATA.-Whoever, with intent to injure the United States or with intent to secure an advantage to any foreign nation, acquires, or attempts or conspires to acquire any document, writing, sketch, photograph, plan, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information involving or incorporating Restricted Data shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by death or imprisonment for life (but the penalty of death or imprisonment for life may be imposed only upon recommendation of the jury), or by a fine of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not not more than twenty years, or both.

"SEC. 226. TAMPERING WITH RESTRICTED DATA.-Whoever, with intent to injure the United States or with intent to secure an advantage to any foreign nation, removes, conceals, tampers with, alters, mutilates, or destroys any document, writing, sketch, photograph, plan, model, instrument, appliance, or note involving or incorporating Restricted Data and used by any individual or person in connection. with the production of special nuclear material, or research or development relating to atomic energy, conducted by the United States, or financed in whole or in part by Federal funds, or conducted with the aid of special nuclear material, shall be punished by death or imprisonment for life (but the penalty of death or imprisonment for life may be imposed only upon recommendation of the jury), or by a fine of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both.

"SEC. 227. DISCLOSURE OF RESTRICTED DATA.-Whoever, being or having been an employee or member of the Commission, a member of the Armed Forces, an employee of any agency of the United States, or being or having been a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been an employee of a contractor of the Commission or of an agency of the United States, or being or having been a licensee of the Commission, or being or having been an employee of a licensee of the Commission, knowingly communicates, or whoever conspires to communicate or to receive, any Restricted Data, knowing or having reason to believe that such data is Restricted Data, to any person not authorized to receive Restricted Data pursuant to the provisions of this Act or under rule or regulation of the Commission issued pursuant thereto, knowing or having reason to believe such person is not so authorized to receive Restricted Data shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $2,500.

"SEC. 228. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.-Except for a capital offense, no individual or person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense prescribed or defined in sections 224 to 226, inclusive, of this Act unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within ten years next after such offense shall have been committed.

"SEC. 229. OTHER LAWS.-Sections 224 to 228 shall not exclude the applicable provisions of any other laws.

"SEC. 230. INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS.-Whenever in the judgment of the Commission any person has engaged or is about to engage in any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of this Act, or any regulation or order issued thereunder, the Attorney General on behalf of the United States may make application to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or for an order enforcing compliance with such provision, and upon a showing by the Commission that such person has engaged or is about to engage in any such acts or practices, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order may be granted.

"SEC. 231. CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS.-In case of failure or refusal to obey a subpena served upon any person pursuant to subsection 161 c., the district court for any district in which such person is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Attorney General on behalf of the United States, shall have jurisdiction to issue an order requiring such person to appear and give testimony or to appear and produce documents, or both, in accordance with the subpena; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.

CHAPTER 19. MISCELLANEOUS

"SEC. 241. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.-Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to repeal, modify, amend, or alter the provisions of section 9 (a) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as heretofore amended.

"SEC. 251. REPORT TO CONGRESS.-The Commission shall submit to the Congress, in January and July of each year, a report concerning the activities of the Commission. The Commission shall include in such report, and shall at such other times as it deems desirable submit to the Congress, such recommendations for additional legislation as the Commission deems necessary or desirable.

"SEC. 261. APPROPRIATIONS.-There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act except such as may be necessary for acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion. The Acts appropriating such sums may appropriate specified portions thereof to be accounted for upon the certification of the Commission only. Funds appropriated to the Commission shall, if obligated by contract during the fiscal year for which appropriated, remain available for expenditure for four years following the expiration of the fiscal year for which appropriated.

"SEC. 271. AGENCY JURISDICTION.-Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the authority or regulations of any Federal, State, or local agency with respect to the generation, sale, or transmission of electric power.

"SEC. 272. APPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL POWER ACT.-Every licensee under this Act who holds a license from the Commission for a utilization or production facility for the generation of commercial electric energy under section 103 and who transmits such electric energy in interstate commerce or sells it at wholesale in interstate commerce shall be subject to the regulatory provisions of the Federal Power Act.

"SEC. 273. LICENSING OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.-Nothing in this Act shall preclude any Government agency now or hereafter authorized by law to engage in the production, marketing, or distribution of electric energy from obtaining a license under section 103, if qualified under the provisions of section 103, for the construction and operation of production or utilization facilities for the primary purpose of producing electric energy for disposition for ultimate public consumption.

"SEC. 281. SEPARABILITY. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.

"SEC. 291. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the 'Atomic Energy Act of 1954'."

SEC. 2.

a. Section 1 (d) of the Act of December 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 1129), is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the following: "when such order was entered by the Atomic Energy Commission, 'agency' means that Commission".

b. Section 2 of the Act of December 29, 1950 (64 Stat. 1129), is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first paragraph thereof a comma and the following: "and (d) of the Atomic Energy Commission made reviewable by section 189 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended".

SEC. 3. There is hereby retroceded to the State of New Mexico the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore acquired from the State of New Mexico by the United States of America over the following land of the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Bernalillo County and within the boundaries of the Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Beginning at the center quarter corner of section 30, township 10 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, thence south no degrees twenty-three minutes thirty seconds west one thousand nine hundred forty-seven and twenty one-hundredths feet, thence north eighty-nine degrees thirty-six minutes forty-five seconds east two thousand sixty-eight and forty onehundredths feet, thence north eighty-nine degrees three minutes fifteen seconds east five hundred forty-six feet, thence north no degrees thirty-nine minutes no seconds east two hundred thirty-two and seventy one-hundredths feet, thence north eighty-nine degrees twentyone minutes no seconds west eight hundred fifty-two and twenty onehundredths feet, thence north no degrees thirty-nine minutes no seconds east five hundred and sixty one-hundredths feet, thence along the back of the south curb of West Sandia Drive, Sandia Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, eight hundred sixty-five and sixty onehundredths feet, thence north no degrees thirty-nine minutes no seconds east one thousand three hundred thirty-five and three-tenths feet to a point south eighty-nine degrees twenty-seven minutes forty-five seconds west a distance of thirty feet from the quarter corner common to sections 30 and 29, township 10 north, range 4 east, thence south. eighty-nine degrees, twenty-seven minutes forty-five seconds west two thousand six hundred twenty-three and forty one-hundredths feet to the point of beginning.

This retrocession of jurisdiction shall take effect upon acceptance by the State of New Mexico.

Approved August 30, 1954, 9:44 a. m., E. D. T.

205. SENATE REPORT RELATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTING AND RELEASING RADIOLOGICAL INFORMATION, JULY 14, 19551

The Committee on Foreign Relations, having had under consideration Senate Concurrent Resolution 22, relating to the effects of nuclear explosions on human health and safety, reports in lieu thereof an original Senate resolution (S. Res. 134) and recommends that it do pass.

1. MAIN PURPOSE OF THE RESOLUTION

The main purpose of the resolution is to express the Senate's interest in studies of the effect of nuclear radiation on human health and safety and to support efforts to establish United Nations procedures for assembling information resulting from such studies.

Specifically, the resolution "endorses efforts of our chief delegate to the United Nations to take appropriate steps to work to establish within the United Nations procedures to receive, assemble and report on radiological information collected by the various States with particular emphasis on radiation effects on human health and safety."

2. BACKGROUND

As set forth in the preamble, the resolution is based on the facts that:

1. The number of nuclear explositions, set off by various nations, is increasing and is more likely to continue to increase than to decrease. 2. Radioactivity released by such explosions can have serious deleterious effects, both immediate and long-range, on human beings and other living organisms.

3. Existing knowledge of the effects of such explosions on living organisms is very incomplete.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 was introduced April 13, 1955, by Senator Payne for himself and Senators Barrett, Beall, Capehart, Cotton, Duff, Douglas, Flanders, Fullbright, Green, Humphreys, Ives, Kefauver, Kilgore, Langer, Mansfield, McNamara, Monroney, Morse, Murray, Neely, Neuberger, Potter, Robertson, Sparkman, Stennis, ! Symington, and Welker. It requested the President to "instruct our chief delegate to the United Nations to take whatever steps may be necessary to propose and urge the formation of an international scientific commission within the United Nations to study and deter- ! mine the effects on living organisms of radioactivity released by nuclear explosions."

Subsequently, on June 22, during the anniversary meeting of the U. N. General Assembly in San Francisco, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Chief United States Delegate to the U. N., issued a statement expressing the belief of the United States that the next General

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Assembly "should establish a procedure to receive and assemble radiological information collected by the various states, as well as the results of national studies of radiation effects on human health and safety."

On July 12, this Senate committee considered the matter in executive session with Senator Payne who suggested that a Senate resolution be reported instead of a concurrent resolution so as to obviate the need for House action. Senator Payne also suggested changes in the substantive part of the resolution to bring it into line with the Lodge proposal.

3. CONCLUSION

The committee believes that action of the sort proposed in the resolution here reported would be helpful in collating and disseminating such information as is available on the problem of atomic fallout. The resolution, which is approved by the Department of State, would put the Senate on record in support of the efforts of the executive branch to this end, and the committee recommends that the Senate take favorable action.

In view of recent developments in the field of atomic energy there is no question about the importance of the problem covered by this resolution. The committee believes the United States should cooperate with other countries in setting up proper procedures so that available data may be assembled and the problem better understood.

206. SENATE RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTING AND RELEASING RADIOLOGICAL INFORMATION, JULY 18, 19551

Whereas various nations are setting off an increasing number of nuclear explosions; and

Whereas the number of such explosions is more likely to increase than decrease in the foreseeable future; and

Whereas it has been established that the radioactivity released as a result of such explosions can have serious deleterious effects, from an immediate and long-range standpoint, on human beings and other living organisms; and Whereas existing knowledge of the effects of such explosions on living organisms is very incomplete: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Senate endorses efforts of our chief delegate to the United Nations to take appropriate steps to work to establish within the United Nations procedures to receive, assemble, and report on radiological information collected by the various states with particular emphasis on radiation effects on human health and safety.

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