Page images
PDF
EPUB

87th Congress, S. 650
August 30, 1961

An Act

75 STAT. 408.

To amend the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to permit certain new organizations to sponsor works of improvement thereunder.

Watershed Pro

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last paragraph of section 2 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention tection and Act is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: "; or any irrigation or reservoir company, 68 Stat. 666. water users' association, or similar organization having such author- 16 USC 1002. ity and not being operated for profit that may be approved by the

Secretary".

Approved August 30, 1961.

(516)

Flood Prevention
Act, amendment.

87th Congress, S. 606
August 30, 1961

An Act

75 STAT. 409.

To provide for the construction of a shellfisheries research center at Milford,

Connecticut.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Shellfisheries of the Interior, acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife research center. Service, is authorized and directed to construct at Milford, Connecticut, a research center for shellfisheries production and for such purpose acquire such real property as may be necessary. Such research center shall consist of research facilities, a pilot hatchery including rearing tanks and ponds, and a training school, and shall be used for the conduct of basic research on the physiology and ecology of commercial shellfish, the development of hatchery methods for cultivation of mollusks, including the development of principles that can be applied to the utilization of artificial and natural salt water ponds for shellfish culture, and to train persons in the most advanced methods of shellfish culture.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in Appropriation. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed $1,325,000 to carry out this Act.

Approved August 30, 1961.

(517)

87th Congress, H. R. 206
September 13, 1961

An Act

75 STAT. 493.

To facilitate administration of the fishery loan fund established by section 4 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of facilitating administration of, and protecting the interest of the Government in, the fishery loan fund established by section 4 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and any related type of activities relating to fisheries for which the Department of the Interior is now or may hereafter be responsible, the Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding any other provision of law, may hereafter administer, complete, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, maintain, operate, charter, assign, or sell upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most advantageous to the United States, any vessel, plant, or other property acquired by him on behalf of the United States and arising out of any fishery loan or any related type of activity by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary may use any of the applicable funds in each particular instance for the aforesaid purposes. Approved September 13, 1961.

(518)

Fish and Wildlife.

Fishery loan fund.

70 Stat. 1121. 16 USC 7420.

87th Congress, H. R. 7447
September 21, 1961

An Act

75 STAT. 566.

To amend the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide for the immediate disposition of certain waterfowl feathers and down.

Waterfowl feathers and down, disposition.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis- General Servtrator of General Services is hereby authorized and directed to dispose ices Adminisof not more than two million pounds of waterfowl feathers and down, tration. determined by the Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to be obsolescent for use in time of war, in accordance with the notice of proposed disposition published in the Federal Register of April 6, 1961, volume 26, number 65, page 2881. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98b (e)) such disposition may be commenced 60 Stat. 597. immediately. Approved September 21, 1961.

(519)

87th Congress, H. R. 7391
October 4, 1961

An Act

75 STAT. 813.

To promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl by the acquisition of wetlands and other essential waterfowl habitat, and for other purposes.

fowl.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to Migratory waterpromote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and to offset or pre- Conservation. vent the serious loss of important wetlands and other waterfowl habitat essential to the preservation of such waterfowl, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the seven-year period beginning Appropriation with fiscal year 1962, not to exceed $105,000,000.

SEC. 2. Funds appropriated each fiscal year pursuant to this Act shall be accounted for, added to, and used for purposes of the migratory bird conservation fund established pursuant to section 4 of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 451; 16 U.S.C. 718d).

SEC. 3. Funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be treated as an advance, without interest, to the migratory bird conservation fund. Such appropriated funds, beginning with fiscal year 1969, shall be repaid to the Treasury out of the migratory bird conservation fund, and such repayment shall be made in annual amounts comprising 75 per centum of the moneys accruing annually to such fund: Provided, That in the event the full amount authorized by section 1 of this Act is appropriated prior to the end of the aforesaid seven-year period, the repayment of such funds pursuant to this section shall

authorization.

begin with the next full fiscal year: Provided further, That no land State approval. shall be acquired with moneys from the migratory bird conservation fund unless the acquisition thereof has been approved by the Governor of the State or appropriate State agency.

Approved October 4, 1961.

(520)

« PreviousContinue »