An Act to amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to add a new subsection to section 16A to limit financial and technical assistance for drainage of certain wet lands
PL 87-732 (H.R.8520), enacted 10/02/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-732-OCT. 2, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
Future borrow-
ing. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
SEC. 3. There shall be deducted from the annual payment of the 
assessed share of the United States of the budget of the United Nations 
an amount equal to the corresponding annual installment of principal 
and interest due to the United States on account of the loan made 
pursuant to section 1. 
SEC. 4. Nothing herein shall be regarded as authorizing the United 
States to participate in any future United Nations borrowing. 
It is 
the sense of the Congress that the United States shall use its best 
efforts to promote a pattern of United Nations financing (including a 
vigorous program for collection of delinquencies on annual assess-
ments of nations and maintenance of such annual assessments on a 
current basis) that will avoid any future large-scale deficits. 
The 
Department of State is hereby instructed to submit to the Congress, 
not later than January 31, 1963, a report on steps taken in the l7th 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on long-term 
financing of the United Nations. 
SEC. 5. The Congress hereby expresses its satisfaction that the Inter-
national Court of Justice has decided that the expenditures authorized 
in resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly relating to 
"Expenses o
f 
Operations in the Middle East and in the Congo are "expenses of the 
the organization." Organization" within the meaning of the United Nations Charter, 
thereby providing a sound basis for obtaining prompt payment of 
assessments for such expenditures by making them obligations of all 
members of the United Nations. 
SEC. 6. It is the sense of the Congress that the United Nations should 
take immediate steps to give effect to the advisory opinion of the Inter-
national Court of Justice on the financial obligations of members of 
the United Nations in order to assure prompt payment of all assess-
ments, including assessments to cover the cost of operations to main-
tain or restore international peace and security. 
Approved October 2, 1962. 
October 2, 1962 
[H. R. 8520] 
Public Law 87-732 
A^f' ACT 
To amend the Soil Conservation ana Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to 
add a new section 16A to limit finapcial and technical assistance for drainage 
of certain wetlands. 
Agriculture Dept, 
Wetlands drain-
age assistance, 
limitation. 
49 Stat. 1151. 
16 u s e 590p. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate (md House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Soil Con-
servation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is further amended 
by inserting after section 16 thereof the following new section: 
"SEC. 16A. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not enter into an agree-
ment in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota to 
provide financial or technical assis'tance for wetland drainage on a farm 
under authority of this Act, if the Secretary of the Interior has made 
a finding that wildlife preservation will be materially harmed on 
that farm by such drainage and that preservation of such land in its 
undrained status will materially contribute to wildlife preservation 
and such finding, identifying specifically the farm and the land on 
that farm with respect to which the finding was made, has been filed 
with the Secretary of Agriculture within ninety days after the filing 
of the application for drainage assistance: Provided, That the limita-
tion against furnishing such financial or technical assistance shall 
terminate (1) at such time as the Secretary of the Interior notifies 
the Secretary of Agriculture that such limitation should not be ap-
plicable, (2) one year after the date on which the adverse finding 
of the Secretary of the Interior was filed unless during that time an 
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PUBLIC LAW 87-733-OCT. 3, 1962 
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offer has been made by the Secretary of the Interior or a State gov-
ernment agency to lease or to purchase the wetland area from the owner 
thereof as a waterfowl resource, or (3) five years after the date on 
which such adverse finding was filed if such an offer to lease or to 
purchase such wetland area has not been accepted by the owner 
thereof: Provided further^ That upon any change in the ownership of 
the land with respect to which such adverse finding was filed, the 
eligibility of such land for such financial or technical assistance shall 
be redetermined in accordance with the provisions of this section." 
Approved October 2, 1962. 
Public Law 87-733 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
October 3, 1962 
Expressing the determination of the United States with respect to the situation 
[s. J- es.230j 
in Cuba. 
Whereas President James Monroe, announcing the Monroe Doctrine 
in 1823, declared that the United States would consider any attempt 
on the part of European powers "to extend their system to any 
portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety"; 
and 
Whereas in the Rio Treatj^ of 1947 the parties agreed that "an armed 
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attack by any State against an American State shall be considered 
as an attack against all the American States, and, consequently, each 
one of the said contracting parties undertakes to assist in meeting 
the attack in the exercise of the inherent right of individual or 
collective self-defense recognized by article 51 of the Charter of the 
United Nations"; and 
59 stat. 1044. 
Whereas the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American 
States at Punta del Este in January 1962 declared: "The present 
Government of Cuba has identified itself with the principles of 
Marxist-Leninist ideology, has established a political, economic, and 
social system based on that doctrine, and accepts military assistance 
from extracontinental Communist powers, including even the threat 
of military intervention in America on the part of the Soviet 
Union"; and 
Whereas the international Communist movement has increasingly 
extended into Cuba its political, economic, and military sphere of 
influence; Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States is 
cuba. 
determined— 
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determination. 
(a) to prevent by whatever means may be necessary, including 
the use of arms, the Marxist-Leninist regime in Cuba from extend-
ing, bj^ force or the threat of force, its aggressive or subversive 
activities to any part of this hemisphere; 
(b) to prevent in Cuba the creation or use of an externally sup-
ported military capability endangering the security of the United 
States; and 
(c) to work with the Organization of American States and with 
freedom-loving Cubans to support the aspirations of the Cuban 
people for self-determination. 
Approved October 3, 1962.