Authority: Title 23, Chapter 5, Code of Virginia.

A. Out of the amounts for Higher Education Research, $596,649 the first year and $596,649 the second year from the general fund shall be made available as administrative support for the operation of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF).

B.1. Out of this appropriation, $387,600 the first year and $387,600 the second year from the general fund is designated for the costs to lease and equip space for activities related to technology transfer, research, and graduate work.

2. The lease agreement shall be approved by the Governor, pursuant to § 2.1-504.2, Code of Virginia and the agreement shall provide for a long term lease to support the work associated with the activities referred to in paragraph B 1 above.

C. Out of this appropriation, $792,356 $1,029,984 from the general fund and $134,606 in nongeneral funds the first year and $583,177 $804,095 from the general fund and $134,606 in nongeneral funds the second year for is estimated for lease payments to support the cost of equipment purchased with the proceeds of bonds issued by the Virginia College Building Authority. The Director of the Department of Planning and Budget shall transfer to the Virginia College Building Authority on July 1, 1998, the amounts in the first year, and on July 1, 1999, the amounts in the second year to support the authority's debt obligation.

D. It is the intent of the General Assembly that at such time as there is a building addition or improvements to the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, adequate and sufficient space be provided in such addition or improvement to house the offices of the Commonwealth's Attorneys' Services Council, an agency of the Commonwealth currently located in the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of The College of William and Mary in Virginia.

E. Out of this appropriation, $21,375 the first year and $21,375 the second year from the general fund is designated to support the Virginia Writing Project.

F. This appropriation authorizes The College of William and Mary to charge its students a technology service fee in conformity with § 4-2.01 c of this act. This appropriation includes $380,671 the first year and $380,268 the second year from nongeneral funds, the unexpended balance of which shall not revert to the general fund in any fiscal year but shall be carried forward on the books of the Department of Accounts and allotted for expenditure each July 1. The fee charged resident undergraduate students each year shall not exceed one percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998, and the amounts appropriated in this Item reflect that policy. The Department of Planning and Budget shall allot technology fee revenues in excess of the amounts appropriated in this Item provided that the revenues are not generated by resident undergraduate students and provided that such revenues reflect a fee that does not exceed three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998 to nonresident undergraduate students and three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998 to graduate and professional students.

G. Out of the Higher Education Equipment Trust Fund allocation for The College of William and Mary, in the first year $725,000 is provided for the replacement of computing systems that are not Year 2000 compliant.