Fiscal Year 1973 Saline Water Conversion Authorization: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation..., 92-2, on H.R. 12749..., February 7 and 8, 1972

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Page 7 - States and domestic municipal governments, unless the agency head determines that it would not be in the public interest to acquire the license for the States and domestic...
Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
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