[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4451 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4451

  To terminate the International Space Station Alpha program, and to 
   redirect the savings therefrom to National Aeronautics and Space 
           Administration space and civil aviation programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 1994

   Mr. Roemer (for himself, Mr. Zimmer, Mr. Penny, Mr. Ramstad, Mr. 
Schumer, Mrs. Roukema, Mr. Klein, Mr. Upton, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Sanders, 
and Mr. Mann) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
  To terminate the International Space Station Alpha program, and to 
   redirect the savings therefrom to National Aeronautics and Space 
           Administration space and civil aviation programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the International Space Station Alpha program is 
        neither necessary nor affordable to the United States at this 
        time;
            (2) the presence of this ``mega-project'' is causing 
        schedule delays, funding cuts, cost-overruns, and cancellation 
        of other, worthier National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration programs;
            (3) the cancellation of the International Space Station 
        Alpha program will require a number of close-down costs in 
        order to end production and buy out certain contracts;
            (4) current political turmoil in Russia, which is very 
        likely to continue into the foreseeable future, creates grave 
        doubts about the suitability of building a joint project 
        costing tens of billions of dollars to the United States;
            (5) Russian insistence on continuing some control over the 
        space station components is unacceptable to this country; and
            (6) in the absence of the International Space Station Alpha 
        program, billions of dollars in Federal obligations will be 
        available for other National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration projects.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF PROGRAM.

    No Federal funds may be appropriated or obligated for the 
International Space Station Alpha program, except for funds necessary 
to terminate such program.

SEC. 3. REDIRECTION OF AMOUNTS SAVED.

    The amounts appropriated for the Space Station before the date of 
enactment of this Act are authorized to be appropriated for expenses 
necessary for the termination of the program, and the remainder are 
authorized to be appropriated to proportionately increase the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration budget for--
            (1) civil aviation programs, to ensure that the United 
        States can continue to compete in and lead international 
        markets for the development and production of aircraft, meeting 
        the challenge posed by such competitors as the Airbus 
        consortium;
            (2) other space science, research, and education programs 
        which can further build on the National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration successes and economic contributions of the 
        past; and
            (3) other such purposes and programs within the mission of 
        the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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