§ 9009. Authorization of appropriations(a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter the sum of $20,000,000 for operating expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1981, in addition to any amounts authorized to be appropriated in the fiscal year 1981 Authorization Act pursuant to [section 7270 of this title].
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter the sum of $60,000,000 for operating expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1982.
(c) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the purposes of [section 9004 of this title] for plant and capital equipment as follows:Project 81–ES–1, ocean thermal energy conversion demonstration plants with a combined capacity of at least one hundred megawatts electrical or the energy product equivalent, sites to be determined, conceptual and preliminary design activities only $5,000,000.
(d) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the purposes of [section 9004 of this title] for plant and capital equipment as follows:Project 81–ES–1, ocean thermal energy conversion demonstration plants with a combined capacity of at least one hundred megawatts electrical or the energy product equivalent, sites to be determined, conceptual and preliminary design activities only $25,000,000.
([Pub. L. 96–310, § 10], July 17, 1980, [94 Stat. 946].)
