An Act to amend title 39, United States Code with respect to mailing privileges of members of the US Aid Forces and other Federal personnel posted overseas, and for other purposes.
PL 89-725 (H.R.13448), enacted 11/02/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-725-NOV. 2, 1966 
[80 
STAT. 
November 2, 1966 
[H. R. 13448] 
Public Law 89-725 
AN ACT 
To amend title 39, United States Code, with respect to mailing privileges of 
members of the United States Armed Forces and other Federal Government 
personnel overseas, and for other purposes. 
Postal service. 
Armed Forces 
overseas. 
79 Stat. 1163. 
Air transporta-
tion of mail. 
79 Stat. 1164. 
77 Stat. 462. 
72 Stat. 763. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Refresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ai^semhledy That section 41H9(a) 
of title 39, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking out "First-class letter mail, including postal 
cards and post cards, shall be carried as airmail, at no cost to the 
sender, when mailed by—" and inserting in lieu thereof "First-
' 
class letter mail, includmg postal cards and post cards, and sound-
recorded communications having the character of personal cor-
respondence shall be carried, at no cost to the sender, in the man-
ner provided by section 4.S08(d)(5) of this title, when mailed 
b y - " ; 
(2) by striking out, in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), 
"the letter is mailed" and inserting in lieu thereof "the letter or 
sound-recorded communication is mailed"; and 
(3) by striking out, in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2), 
"The letter is mailed" and inserting in lieu thereof "the letter or 
sound-recorded communication is mailed". 
SEC. 2. Paragraphs (5) and (6) of section 4303(d) of title 39, United 
States Code, are amended to read as follows: 
"(5) There shall be transported by air, between Armed Forces post 
offices established under section 705(a) of this title which are located 
outside the forty-eight contiguous States of the U^nited States, or 
between any such Armed Forces post office and the point of embarka-
tion or debarkation within the fifty States of the United States, the 
territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or the Canal Zone, 
on a space available basis, on scheduled I^^nited States air carriers at 
rates fixed and determined by the Civil Aeronautics Board in accord-
ance with section 406 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 
1376), the following categories of mail matter: 
"(A)(i) first-class letter mail (including postal cards and 
post cards), 
"(ii) sound-recorded communications having the character of 
personal correspondence, and 
"(iii) parcels of any class of mail not exceeding five pounds in 
weight and sixty inches in length and girth combined, 
which are mailed at or addressed to any such Armed Forces post 
office; 
"(B) second-class publications published once each week or 
more frequently and featuring principally current news of inter-
est to members of the Armed Forces and the general public which 
are mailed at or addressed to any such Armed Forces post office 
in an overseas area designated oy the President under section 
4169of this title; and 
"(C) parcels of any class of mail exceeding five pounds but 
not exceeding seventy pounds in weight and not exceeding one 
hundred inches in length and girth combined which are mailed 
at or addressed to any such Armed Forces post office where 
adequate surface transportation is not available. 
Whenever adequate service oy scheduled United States air carriers is 
not available to provide transportation of mail matter by air in accord-
ance with the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the transporta-
77 Stat. 462. 
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tion of such mail matter may be authorized by aircraft other than 
scheduled United States air carriers. This paragraph shall not affect 
the operation of section 4169 (a) of this title. 
^"'^' P- ^ 154. 
"(6) Paragraphs (4) and (6) of this subsection shall be adminis-
tered under such conditions and regulations as the Postmaster General 
and the Secretary of Defense severally may prescribe to carry out their 
respective functions under such paragraphs.". 
SEC. 3. Paragraph (4) of section 4303(d) of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a 
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comma and the following: "except that the rate of postage applicable 
to air parcel post transported directly between (1) Hawaii, Alaska, 
or the territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific 
area, and (2) an Army, Air Force, or fleet post office served by the 
postmaster at San Francisco, California, or Seattle, Washington, shall 
be the rate which would be applicable if the parcel were in fact mailed 
from or delivered to that city, as the case may be". 
SEC. 4. Section 4303 of title 39, United States Code, is amended 
ff^t^re^eT"*' 
by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(f) The Department of Defense shall reimburse the Post Office 
Department, out of any appropriations or funds available to the 
Department of Defense, as a necessary expense of the appropriations 
or funds and of the activities concerned, sums equal to the expenses 
incurred by the Post Office Department, as determined hj the Post-
master General, in providing air transportation of mail between 
Armed Forces post offices established under section 705 (d) of this title 
which are not located within the fifty States of the United States, the 
territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Eico, the Virgin Islands or the Canal Zone, 
or between any such Armed Forces post office and the point of embar-
kation or debarkation within the fifty States, the territories and 
possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or the Canal Zone." 
Approved November 2, 1966. 
Public Law 89-726 
A N A C T 
November 2, 1966 
To authorize the disposal of battery-grade synthetic manganese dioxide from 
[H. R.13661] 
the national stockpile. 
Be it en((cted hy the Senate and IlouHe of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Adminis- ^ nthe^ic^'man'^a-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by nese dioxide. 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately fourteen thousand five hun- 
Disposal. 
dred and seventy-two short dry tons of battery-grade synthetic man-
ganese dioxide now held in the national stockpile established pursuant 
to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 
98-98h). 
Such disposition may be made without regard to the pro- 
so stat. 596. 
visions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock 
Piling Act: Provided, That the time and method of disposition shall 
be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States against 
avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and con-
sumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved November 2, 1966.