APPENDIX M NUCLEAR-POWERED MERCHANT SHIP (70 Stat. 731) [PUBLIO LAW 848-84TH CONGRESS] [46 U.S.C. 1206] [H.R. 6243] AN ACT To amend title VII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to authorize the construction of a nuclear-powered merchant ship for operation in foreign commerce of the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title VII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C., secs. 1191-1204) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEO. 716. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission, such sums as may be necessary, to remain available until expended, for the construction, outfitting, and preparation for operation, including training of qualified personnel, of a nuclear-powered merchant ship capable of providing shipping services on routes essential for maintaining the flow of the foreign commerce of the United States. The Maritime Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission, in carrying on activities and functions under this paragraph, may collaborate with and employ persons, firms and corporations on a contract or fee basis for the performance of special services deemed necessary by such agencies in carrying on such activities and functions. The Administration may, for the same purposes, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and where appropriate the Atomic Energy Commission, avail itself of the use of licenses, information, services, facilities, offices, and employees of any executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Government, including any field service thereof." Approved July 30, 1956. INDEX TO LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF PUBLIC Law 84-848 (H.R. 6243) (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 1st sess.) Mr. Bonner; Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 6368. Rules suspended, passed House, 10806, 10807. Referred to Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 10916. (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 2d sess.) Amended and passed Senate, 10650. Title amended, 10657. House disagrees to Senate amendment and asks for conference, 10924. Senate insists on its amendments and agrees to conferences, 10949. Conference report submitted in House and agreed to, 14120. Conference report (S. 2870) submitted in Senate and agreed to, 13964. Presented to the President, 14588. Approved (Public Law 848), 15302. Companion bill-S. 2523 (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 1st sess.) Mr. Magnuson, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Clements, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 10380. Reported (S. Rept. 1035), 11005. Referred to Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 11005. Reported with amendments (S. Rept. 1269), 12189. Objected to, 12870. (Page references are to Congressional Record, 84th Cong., 2d sess.) Objected to, 528, 5009. Consent requested to take bill from calendar and recommit it to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 7787. Recommitted to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 7874. Reported with amendments (S. Rept. 2258), 10437. Indefinitely postponed (H.R. 6243 passed in lieu), 10650. APPENDIX N TITLE AND JURISDICTION TO LANDS (70 Stat. 1069) [PUBLIC LAW 1006-84TH CONGRESS] [S. 4203] AN ACT To amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 8. All land and interests in land, owned by the United States within the boundaries of the County of Los Alamos, State of New Mexico, containing approximately seventy thousand eight hundred acres, are hereby transferred, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, to the Atomic Energy Commission. The Atomic Energy Commission shall exercise administrative control over all land and interests in land transferred to the Atomic Energy Commission by this Act notwithstanding the manner of their acquisition by the United States nor their status at any time prior to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 9. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to transfer to the Atomic Energy Commission, without compensation therefor, for use in connection with the Atomic Energy program, all that real property and interests therein, comprising approximately two hundred acres, of the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, Weldon Spring, Missouri, as delineated on map designated exhibit A attached to "Department of the Army Permit to Use Weldon Spring Ordnance Works Military Reservation, Missouri," dated January 25, 1955, on file in the Atomic Energy Commission, and all or any part of the personal property therein at the time of approval of this Act: Provided, That when the Atomic Energy Commission, or its successor in functions, determines that the real property herein authorized for transfer is no longer required for the purposes stated, the real property, together with buildings and permanent improvements thereon at the date of such determination, shall, at the option of the Secretary of the Army, be returned to the Department of the Army without compensation therefor. SEC. 10. There is hereby retroceded to the State of Kentucky the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore acquired from the State of Kentucky by the United States of America, over lands in McCracken County, Kentucky, within the present boundaries of the Paducah Project of the Atomic Energy Commission. This retrocession of jurisdiction shall take effect in accordance with the law of the State of Kentucky. Approved August 6, 1956. (For legislative history of Public Law 84–1006, see appendix A, supra.) (803) APPENDIX O LIVERMORE RETROCESSION (75 Stat. 475) [PUBLIC LAW 87-206] [87TH CONGRESS, H.R. 8599] [SEPTEMBER 6, 1961] AN ACT To amend various sections of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby retroceded to the State of California the exclusive jurisdiction heretofore acquired from the State of California by the United States of America over the following land of the United States Atomic Energy Commission located in Alameda County, State of California, and within the boundaries of the Commission's Livermore site: Beginning at a post marked L.P. XII, in the exterior boundary line of the Rancho Las Positas, set at the southeast corner of subdivision numbered 6 of plot J, of said rancho, as said plot is described in the decree of partition of said rancho rendered June 18, 1973, in case 2798, Aurrecoechea against Mahoney, certified copy of which decree was recorded December 13, 1873, in book 95 of deeds at page 206, Alameda County Records, and as said subdivision is shown on the map hereinafter referred to; and running thence west along the southern boundary line of said plot J 79.28 chains to a post marked L.P. XI, set at the southwest corner of subdivision numbered 5 of said plot J, as said subdivision numbered 5 is shown on said map; and thence north along the western boundary line of said subdivision numbered 5 and along the western boundary line of subdivision numbered 8, as said subdivision numbered 8 is shown on said map, 79.46 chains to a post set at the northwest corner of said subdivison numbered 8; thence east along the northern boundary line of said subdivision numbered 8 and subdivision numbered 7 as shown on said map, 79 chains to a post marked L.P. XIII; and thence south along the eastern boundary line of subdivision numbered 7, as said subdivision numbered 7 is shown on said map, and along the eastern boundary line of said subdivision numbered 6 of said plot J to the point of beginning. Being a portion of said plot J of said rancho, as shown upon a certain map of a portion of the Rancho Las Positas surveyed for J. Aurrecoechea, August 1876, by Luis Castro, county surveyor, and also known as subdivisions 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the official map of the county of Alameda, State of California, made by George L. Nusbaumer and W. F. Boardman, adopted by the supervisors of said county, September 24, 1888, and issued May 1, 1889. Beginning at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 13 township 3 south, range 2 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, being also the northeast corner of the 160 acre tract owned by Louis Madsen, thence south 2,640 feet, more or less, along the east line of said quarter section and along the east boundary fence of said 160 acre tract to the southeast corner of said northwest quarter of said section 13, being the southeast corner of said 160 acre tract and the northeast corner of a 30.66 acre tract owned by John and Dora Bargman; thence south 506 feet, more or less, to the southeast corner of said 30.66 acre tract; thence south 965 feet, more or less, along the east fence of a 129.34 acre tract owned by Charles M., and Sue I. G. Nissen to a fence running east and west through said 129.34 acre parcel; thence west 500 feet along said fence through said 129.34 acre tract; thence north, parallel to the east line of the northwest quarter of said section 13, 4,111 feet, more or less, to north boundary of said section 13; thence east 500 feet to the point of beginning, containing 47.175 acres, more or less. Beginning at a point 30 feet east of the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of said section 13; thence due south, 4,111 feet, more or less, to a point 30 feet due east of the end of a fence across the 129.34 acre tract owned by Charles M. and Sue I. G. Nissen; thence west 30 feet; thence north 4,111 feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of said section 13; thence due east 30 feet to the point of beginning, containing 2.83 acres, more or less. This retrocession of jurisdiction shall take effect upon acceptance by the State of California. (For legislative history of Public Law 87-206, see appendix A, supra.) |