An Act to amend existing statutes to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue cotton crop reports simultaneously with the general crop reports
PL 92-331 (S.3104), enacted 06/30/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-331-JUNE 30, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
Appropriation, 
limitation. 
SEC. 5. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for the period 
beginning July 1,1972, and ending June 30,1977, not to exceed, how-
ever, $9,000,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests therein as 
authorized by section 4 of this Act, and not to exceed $11,300,000 for 
the carrying out of the other provisions of this Act. 
Approved June 30, 1972. 
June 30, 1972 
[S. 3104] 
Cotton crop 
reports. 
Issuance with 
general crop re-
ports. 
Reporting 
board; member-
ship. 
68 Stat. 1017. 
Public Law 92-331 
V '': ' 
AN ACT 
To aiiiend existing statutes to autliorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue 
cotton crop reports simultaneously with the general crop reports. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1 of the 
Act of May 3, 1924, as amended (43 Stat. 115. 44 Stat. 1373, 60 Stat. 
940, 72 Stat. 149; 7 U.S.C. 475), is amended to read as follows: 
"COTTON CROP REPORTS.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause 
to be issued as of the first of each month during the cotton growing 
and harvesting season from August to January inclusive, reports 
describing the condition and progress of the crop and stating the 
probable number of bales which will be ginned, these reports to be 
issued simultaneously with the cotton ginning reports of the Bureau 
of the Census relating to the same dates, the two reports to be issued 
from the same place at 3 o'clock postmeridian on or before the 12th day 
of the month to which the respective reports relate. No such report 
shall be approved and released by the Secretary of Agriculture until 
it shall have been passed upon by a cotton crop reporting board consist-
ing of five members or more to be designated by him. Not less than 
three members of the board shall be supervisory field statisticians of 
the Department of Agriculture who are located in different sections of 
the cotton-growing States, are experienced in estimating cotton pro-
duction, ana have first-hand knowledge of the condition of the cotton 
crop based upon recent field observations. A majority of the members 
of the board shall be familiar with the methods and practices of 
producing cotton." 
SEC. 2. Section 1 of the Act of May 27, 1912, as amended (37 Stat. 
118, 44 Stat. 1374, 72 Stat. 149; 7 U.S.C. 476), is amended by striking 
out "10th" and inserting in lieu thereof "12th-" by deleting "August 1" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "or before the 12th day of August", and 
by deleting "December 1" and inserting in lieu thereof "on or before 
the 12th day of December". 
SEC. 3. Section 45 of title 13, Lliited States Code, is amended to read 
as follows: 
"§45. Simultaneous publication of cotton reports 
"The reports of cotton ginned to the dates as of which the Depart-
ment of Agriculture is also required to issue cotton crop reports shall 
be issued simultaneously with the cotton crop reports of that depart-
ment, the two reports to be issued from the same place at 3 o'clock 
postmeridian on or before the 12th day of the month to which the 
respective reports relate." 
SEC. 4. Section 42, paragraph (a) of title 13, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows: 
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'•(a) The statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned shall show the 
quantity ginned from each crop prior to August 1, September 1, 
September 15, October 1, October 15, November 1, November 15, 
December 1, December 15, January 1, January 15, February 1, and 
Mar(;h 1; but the Secretary may limit the canvasses of August 1 and 
September 1 to those sections of the cotton growing States in whicli 
cotton has been ginned." 
Approved June 30, 1972. 
; 
Public Law 92-332 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
June 30, 1972 
To authorize the Secretaiy of the Interior to participate in the planning and [H. J. Rea. 812] 
design of a national memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and for other 
purposes. 
Franklin Delano 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the Vnited 
States of Amenca in Congress assembled. That (a) the joint resolu-
tion approved August 11, 1955 (69 Stat. 694), providing for the fi°°«(fo"mmi^rion: 
establishment of a Commission to formulate plans for a memorial 
84Stat. 837. 
to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is amended by redesignating section 
3 as section 4 and inserting the following new section: 
"SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, upon the 
request of the Commission, to participate in the planning and design 
of the memorial." 
(b) Section 4, as herein redesignated, of such joint resolution is 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
Appropriation, 
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution."' 
Approved June 30, 1972. 
Public Law 92-333 
AN ACT 
To restore to the Custis-Lee Mansion located in the Arlington National Cemetery, 
Arlington, Virginia, its original historical name, followed by the explanatory 
memorial phrase, so that it shall be known as Arlington House, The Robert E, 
Lee Memorial. 
June 30, 1972 
[H. R. 105 95] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3 of 
the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution dedicating the Lee Man-
sion in Arlington National Cemetery a permanent memorial to Robert 
E. Lee", approved June 29,1955 (69 Stat. 190), is amended by striking 
"the Custis-Lee Mansion" each place it appears therein and inserting 
in lieu thereof "Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial". Any 
law, map, regulation, document, record, or other paper of the United 
States in which such mansion is designated or referred to as the Custis-
Lee Mansion shall be held to designate or refer to such mansion as 
"Arling-ton House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial". 
Approved June 30, 1972. 
Custis-Lee 
Mansion. 
Name change.