An Act to amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to afford additional time during which certain veterans blinded by reason of a service-connected disability may be afforded vocational rehabilitation training.
PL 87-591 (S.2869), enacted 08/16/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-591-AUG. 16, 1962 
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(e) In the operation and maintenance of all facilities under the 
jurisdiction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior author-
ized by this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to comply 
with the applicable provisions of the Colorado River compact, the 
Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project 
Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, the Colorado River 
Storage Project Act (and any contract lawfully entered into by the 
United States under any of said Acts), the treaty with the United Mex-
ican States, and the operating principles, and to comply with the laws 
of the State of Colorado relating to the control, appropriation, use, 
and distribution of water therein. 
In the event of the failure of the 
Secretary of the Interior to so comply, any State of the Colorado River 
Basin may maintain an action in the Supreme Court of the United 
States to enforce the provisions of this section and consent is given 
to the joinder of the United States as a party in such suit or suits, as a 
defendant or otherwise. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to continue his 
studies of the quality of water of the Colorado River system, to ap-
praise its suitability for municipal, domestic, and industrial use and 
for irrigation in the various areas in the United States in which it is 
used or proposed to be used, to estimate the effect of additional devel-
opments involving its storage and use (whether heretofore authorized 
or contemplated for authorization) on the remaining water available 
for use in the United States, to study all possible means of improving 
the quality of such water and of alleviating the ill effects thereof, and 
to report the results of his studies and estimates to the Congress on 
January 3, 1963, and every two years thereafter, the expense of said 
studies to be no part of the financial obligation of the Fryingpan-
Arkansas project. 
SEC. 7. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, the sum of $170,000,000 
(June 1961 prices), plus or minus such amounts, if anyj as may be 
justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as 
indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the types of con-
struction involved herein. 
There are also authorized to be appro-
priated such additional sums as may be required for operation and 
maintenance of the project and for future costs incurred under section 
4 of this Act. 
Approved August 16, 1962, 9:45 a. 
Report to 
Congress. 
Appropriation. 
m. 
Public Law 87-591 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code, to afford additional time 
during which certain veterans blinded by reason of a service-connected dis-
ability may be afforded vocational rehabilitation training. 
August 16, 1962 
[S. 2869] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 31 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding after section 1502 
the following new section: 
"§ 1502A. Blinded veterans 
"A veteran who is found to be in need of vocational rehabilitation 
to overcome the handicap of blindness resulting from a service-con-
nected disability which affords basic eligibility for vocational rehabili-
tation under section 1502(a) of this title may be afforded such voca-
tional rehabilitation after the termination date otherwise applicable 
to him, but not beyond June 30, 1975, if— 
Blinded veterans. 
Vocational re-
habilitation, 
72 Stat. 1171. 
38 u s e 1501-
1510. 
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"(1) he had not previously been rehabilitated (that is, ren-; 
dered employable) as the result of training furnished under this 
chapter, or 
"(2) his blindness either has worsened, or has developed as a 
result of the worsening of his service-connected disability, since 
he was declared rehabilitated to the extent that it precludes his 
performing the duties of the occupation for which he was previ-
ously trained under this chapter." 
SEC, 2. The table of sections at the head of chapter 31 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by adding immediately below item 
1502 thereof the following : 
"1502A. Blinded veterans." 
Approved August 16, 1962. 
Public Law 87-592 
August 20, 1962 
AN ACT 
[s. 2135] 
To authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission to delegate certain 
functions. 
Securities and 
Exchange Com-
mission. 
Delegation of 
functions. 
5 u s e 1006. 
60 Stat. 237. 
5 u s e 1001 note. 
48 Stat. 898. 
15 u s e 78s. 
Right of review. 
54 Stat. 857; 
48 Stat. 79. 
15 u s e 77h. 
48 Stat. 892. 
15 u s e 78/. 
15 u s e 780. 
15 u s e 78s. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) in addition 
to its existing authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
hereinafter referred to as the "Commission", shall have the authority 
to delegate, by published order or rule, any of its functions to a divi-
sion of the Commission, an individual Commissioner, a hearing exam-
iner, or an employee or employee board, including functions with re-
spect to hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or other-
wise acting as to any work, business, or matter: Provided, howe^ver^ 
That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to supersede the provi-
sions of section 7(a) of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (60 
Stat. 241), as amended: And provided further, That nothing herein 
contained shall be deemed to authorize the delegation of the function 
of rulemaking as defined in the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, 
as amended, with reference to general rules as distinguished from rules 
of particular applicability, or of the making of any rule, regulation, or 
order pursuant to section 19(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934. 
(b) With respect to the delegation of any of its functions, as pro-
vided in subsection (a) of this section, the Commission shall retain a 
discretionary right to review the action of any such division of the 
Commission, individual Commissioner, hearing examiner, employee, 
or employee board, upon its own initiative or upon petition of a party 
to or an intervenor in such action, within such time and in such man-
ner as the Commission shall by rule prescribe: Provided, 
however, 
That the vote of one member of the Commission shall be sufficient to 
bring any such action before the Commission for review: And pro-! 
vided further. That in the event action at a delegated level (1) denies '• 
any request for action pursuant to section 8(a) or section 8(c) of the 
Securities Act of 1933 or the first sentence of section 12 (d) of the Secu-, 
rities Exchange Act of 1934; (2) suspends, denies, or revokes a' 
broker-dealer registration pursuant to section 15(b) of the Securities 
Exchange Act of 1934; (3) suspends, denies, or withdraws any regis-
tration or suspends or expels a member of a national securities ex-: 
change pursuant to section 19(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 
1934; or (4) suspends trading on an exchange pursuant to section 
19(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a person or party 
adversely affected by such action shall be entitled to review by the 
Commission. 
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