PUBLIC LAW 100-685—NOV. 17, 1988
102 STAT. 4097
(3) the initiation of preliminary design activities for the next generation of a manned space launch system beyond the space shuttle. AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION LONG-RANGE PLAN
SEC. 305. The Administrator should develop a plan in pursuit of— (1) a vigorous program in aeronautics research and technology development and validation, empheisizing emerging technologies with the potential for breakthrough advances to enhance United States preeminence in civil and military aviation; and (2) in cooperation with the Department of Defense, a technology development program (with an option for a flight demonstration in 1995) to prove the feasibility of an air-breathing hypersonic aerospaceplane capable of single-stage-to-orbit operation and hypersonic cruise in the atmosphere. TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION SEC. 40 L There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out the operations and research duties of the National Weather Service under law, $279,000,000 for fiscal year 1989. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be used to fund those duties relating to National Weather Service operations and research specified by the Act of 1890, the Act of 1974, and any other law involving such duties. Such duties include meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic public warnings and forecasts, EIS well as applied research in support of such warnings and forecasts. SEC. 402. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out its public warning and forecast systems duties under law, $98,500,000 for fiscal year 1989. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be used to fund those duties relating to public warning and foreceist systems specified by the Act of 1890, the Act of 1947, and any other law involving such duties. Such duties include the development, acquisition, and implementation of major public warning and forecast systems. (b) In procuring information processing and telecommunications Contracts, services of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, the Secretary of Commerce (hereafter in this title referred to as the "Secretary") may provide, in the contract or contracts for such services, for the payment for contingent liability of the Federal Government which may accrue in the event that the Government decides to terminate the contract before the expiration of the multiyear contract period. Such contract or contracts for such services shall limit the payments which the Federal Government is allowed to make under such contract or contracts to amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. SEC. 403. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and At-
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