An Act to amend section 14 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954 concerning the interstate planning and coordination of the Great River Road
PL 88-660 (S.1593), enacted 10/13/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-660-OCT. 13, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
Transfer of 
property between 
foreign govern-
ments. 
52 Stat. 798. 
diplomatic missions of foreign governments such as purchasing, 
financial, educational, or other missions of comparable nondiplo-
matic nature. 
"(3) 'person' means any individual who is subject to direction 
by the chief of mission of a foreign government and is engaged in 
diplomatic activities recognized as such by the Secretary of State." 
SEC. 2. Nothing in the amendments made by the first section of this 
Act shall prohibit— 
(1) the future or continued use of a building as a chancery or 
the making of ordinary repairs to any such building for which 
lawful use as a chancery existed on the date of enactment of this 
Act, or 
(2) the construction, reconstruction, expansion, or alteration in 
accordance with any permit issued by the Board of Commissioners 
of the District of Columbia on or before February 18,1964, of any 
building used or to be used as a chancery. 
SEC. 3. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply only to applications for special exemptions to the zoning regu-
lations filed with the Board of Zoning Adjustment after May 1,1964. 
SEC. 4. After the date of enactment of this Act, no building or 
chancery being used by a foreign government in the District of Colum-
bia shall be transferred to or used by another foreign government 
unless such use is in accordance with section 6 of the Act of June 20, 
1938, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 5-418), or unless such use was in 
accordance with applicable law at the time of this enactment. 
SEC. 5. This Act and the amendments made thereby shall not be 
administered in such a way as to discriminate against any foreign 
government on the basis of the race, color, or creed of any of its citizens. 
Approved October 13, 1964. 
October 13, 1964 
[S. 1593] 
Public Law 88-660 
AN ACT 
To amend section 14 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954 concerning the 
interstate planning and coordination of the Great River Road. 
Federal-Aid 
Highway Act of 
1954, amendment. 
Great River 
Road. 
63 Stat. 626. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 14 of 
the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 70), is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
"For the purpose of expediting the interstate planning and coordi-
nation of a continuous Great River Road and appurtenances thereto 
traversing the Mississippi Valley from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico 
in general conformity with the provisions of title 23, United States 
Code, and with the recommended plan set forth in the joint report 
submitted to the Congress November 28, 1951, by the Secretaries of 
Commerce and Interior pursuant to the Act of August 24,1949 (Public 
Law 262, Eighty-first Congress), there is hereby authorized to be 
expended by the Secretary of Commerce from general administrative 
funds not to exceed $500,000; the amount expended under this section 
shall be apportioned among the ten States bordering the Mississippi 
River on the basis of their relative needs as determined by the Secretary 
of Commerce." 
Approved October 13, 1964.