An Act to amend the act of September 8, 1960, relating to the Washington Channel Waterfront
PL 90-176 (H.R.2529), enacted 12/06/1967

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PUBLIC LAW 90-175-DEC. 5, 1967 
[81 STAT. 
"Training center 
for allied health 
professions." 
80 Stat. 1228. 
42 u s e 295h-4. 
Effective date. 
Report to 
gress. 
(e) Section 795(1) (A) (ii) of such Act is amended to read as fol-
lows: "'(ii) of education in optometric technology, dental hygiene, 
or curriculunis as are specified by regulation, and". 
(f) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective as of 
Xovember 3,1966. 
COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY 
SEC. 14, The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, in con-
sultation and cooperation with other officials of the Federal Govern-
ment and of the States, shall make a comprehensive survey of the 
incidence and location of serious hunger and malnutrition and health 
problems incident thereto in the United States and shall report his 
findings and recommendations for dealing with these conditions to 
the Congress within six months from the date of enactment of this 
section. 
MEANING OF SECRETARY 
SEC. 15. As used in the amendments made by this Act, the term 
"Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. 
Approved December 5, 1967. 
December 5, 1967 
[S. 1031] 
Public Law 90-175 
AN ACT 
To amend further the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612), as amended. 
Peace Corps. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
80 Stat. 764. 
22 use 2502. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3(b) of 
the Peace Corps Act, as amended, which authorizes apj)ropriations to 
carry out the purposes of that Act, is amended by striking out "1967" 
and "$110,000,000" and substituting "1968" and "$115,700,000", re-
spectively. 
Approved December 5, 1967. 
December 6, 1967 
Public Law 90-176 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 2529] 
rp^j amend the Act of September 8, 1960, relating to the Washington Channel 
waterfront. 
Washington 
Channel water-
front. 
D.C Code 
5-723. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (1) the first 
sentence of section 4(b) of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia on behalf of the United 
States to transfer from the United States to the District of Columbia 
Kedevelopment Land Agency title to certain real property in said 
District", approved September 8, 1960 (74 Stat. 872), is amended by 
striking out "by reason of the enactment of the joint resolution 
approved August 28, 1958 (72 Stat. 983; Public Law 85-821),". 
(2) The second sentence of section 4(b) of such Act is amended 
by striking out "by reason of the operation of such joint resolution 
approved August 28, 1958,". 
(3) Section 4(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the 
first sentence thereof the following: "The priority of opportunity 
created by this section is a personal right of the owners of businesses 
displaced. In the event of the death of any such owner of any such 
displaced business, the spouse of such owner, or, if there is no spouse, 
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the children of such owner shall be entitled to exercise the priority 
of such owner in accordance with the provisions of this section, but 
in no event shall any such priority be otherwise transferable: Pro-
vided^ hoice'ver^ That the spouse or the children, as the case may be, 
shall have no greater priority than the priority holder would have 
had if living. For purposes of exercising such priority, the spouse or 
children, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be owner of such busi-
ness concern so displaced." 
(4) The last sentence in section 4(b) of such Act is amended by 
striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof 
a comma and the following: "except that if after the end of such 
one-hundred-and-eighty-day period the Agency shall change the terms 
under which real property is to be leased, or the redevelopment plan 
for the area described in the first section of this Act is changed so as 
to affect the economic value of the leasehold, the Agency shall in writ-
ing notify each such owner of the change or changes so made and give ' 
to such owner so notified a period of sixty days within which to advise 
the Agency in writing of his intention and to demonstrate his ability 
to proceed as aforesaid." 
(5) Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new subsection: 
"(c)(1) Notwithsitanding any other provision of law, whenever, 
pursuant to subsection (b), the Agency offers leaseholds to persons 
entitled to a priority of opportunity to lease under the provisions of 
this section, the annual rent prescribed in such lease shall not exceed 
an amount which is the greater of— 
"(A) an amount equal to 6 per centum of the residual value 
of the land for the prescribed use to which any owner of a dis-
placed business concern shall put such land under such lease; 
"(B) the annual amount which the Agency shall be required 
to pay in principal and interest on a forty-year loan of an amount 
equal to the residual value of the land under such lease which 
value is the residual value of the land which was determined by. 
the Agency, in accordance with this subsection, and on the basis 
of which such land was initially leased under this section; or 
"(C) the sum of (i) the amount determined under subpara-
graph (A) or (B) of this paragraph, whichever is greater, and 
(ii) 50 per centum of the product of the occupancy cost factor for 
the class and character of the busine-ss of such lessee times the 
amount by which the lessee's actual annual gross sales income 
exceeds the estimated gross sales income (for the class and charac-
ter of the displaced business) used by the Agency in determining 
the residual value of the land leased to such lessee. 
In the case of any land which the Agency leases under this section, the 
annual rent prescribed by the Agency in the lease of such land shall 
not, during the forty-three-year period beginning on the date sucli 
land was first leased by the Agency under this section, be less than the 
amount determined under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph. In 
the case of any land which the Agency leases under this section to a 
displaced business, the residual value of such land—-
"(I) may be redetermined by the Agency after the expiration 
of twenty-five years from the date such land was first leased by 
the Agency and at the end of each ten-year period thereafter, or 
"(II) shall be redetermined by the Agency if at the end of the 
twenty-five-year period from the date such land was first leased 
by the Agency or at the end of each ten-year period thereafter, 
the lessee requests the Agency to redetermine such residual value. 
The residual value of such land shall make due allowance for the cost 
to the owner of the displaced business of all improvements and public 
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D.C. Code 47-
2601 et 
seq. 
63 Stat. 119. 
charges on such land, and shall not exceed the maximum fair use value 
economically feasible to permit the reestablishment of a business of the 
class and character of such displaced business. 
"(2) Each business holding a lease under this Act shall furnish 
annually to the Agency (on such date as the Agency may by regula-
tion prescribe) a copy of the sales tax return filed by such business 
under the District of Columbia Sales Tax Act, which copy was fur-
nished to the business under section 138(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, 
sec. 47-2615(a))." 
Approved December 6, 1967. 
December 6, 1967 
[S. 706] 
Public Law 90-177 
AN ACT 
To rtiueiul section 27 of the Shipping!: Act, 1!)1(). 
Shipping Act, 
amendment. 
39 Stat. 737. 
Be it eMaeted hy the Senate and House of Repre>ientatives of the 
United States of Anierica in Congress assembled^ That section 27 of 
the Shipping Act (46 U.S.C. 826) be amended by deleting tlie ijresent 
section and substituting therefor the following: 
"SEC. 27. (a) In all proceedings under section 22 of this Act, deposi-
tions, written interrogatories, and discovery procedure shall be avail-
able under rules and regulations issued by the Federal Maritime Com-
mission, which rules and regulations shall, to the extent practicable, 
be in conformity with the rules applicable in civil proceedings in the 
district courts of the United States. In such proceedings, the Commis-
sion may by subpena compel the attendance of witnesses and the pro-
duction of books, papers, documents, and other evidence, in such man-
ner and to such an extent as the Commission may by rule or regulation 
require. Attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, 
documents, and other evidence in response to subpena may be required 
from any place in the United States at any designated place of hearing, 
and persons so acting under the direction of the Commission and wit-
nesses shall, imless employees of the Commission, be entitled to the 
same fees and mileage as in the courts of the United States. 
"(b) Obedience to this section shall, on application by the Commis-
sion, be enforced as are orders of the Commission other than for the 
payment of money." 
Approved December 6, 1967. 
December 8, 1967 
[H. R. 8582] 
Public Law 90-178 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 7 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code to increase the 
number of associate judges on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals from 
two to five, and for other purposea. 
D . C Court of 
Appeals judges, 
increase number. 
77 Stat. 484. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represe^itatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^ssemhled, 
SECTION 1. Subchapter I of chapter 7 of title 11 of the District of 
Columbia Code is amended as follows: 
(1) Section 11-702(a) is amended by striking out "two*' and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "five". 
(2) Subsection (c) of section 11-703 is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) Two judges shall constitute a quorum of a division of the 
court, and four judges shall constitute a quorum of the court sitting 
in banc."