[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 897 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 897

  To require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
 Administration, in meeting the needs of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration for additional facilities, to select abandoned and 
           underutilized facilities in depressed communities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 1997

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Science.

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
 Administration, in meeting the needs of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration for additional facilities, to select abandoned and 
           underutilized facilities in depressed communities.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act shall be cited as the ``National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration Decentralization Act of 1997.''

SEC. 2. USE OF ABANDONED AND UNDERUTILIZED BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND 
              FACILITIES.

    In meeting the needs of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration for additional facilities, the Administrator shall 
select abandoned and underutilized buildings, grounds, and facilities 
in depressed communities that can be converted to National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration facilities at a reasonable cost, as determined 
by the Administrator.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``depressed communities'' means 
rural and urban communities that are relatively depressed, in terms of 
age of housing, extent of poverty, growth of per capita income, extent 
of unemployment, job lag, or surplus labor.

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