An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in certain feasibility investigations
PL 92-199 (S.2248), enacted 12/15/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-199-DEC. 15, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
73 Stat. 435. 
81 Stat. 180. 
Children. 
Annual income 
determinations. 
73 Stat. 432; 
84 Stat. 1584. 
76 Stat. 949. 
84 Stat. 1583. 
38 u s e 521 
note. 
73 Stat. 436. 
38 u s e 521 
note, 
84 Stat. 1584. 
81 Stat. 18 2, 
Effective date. 
monthly rate payable to the widow under the foregoing formula is less 
than the amount which would be payable to the child under section 542 
of this title if the widow were not entitled, the widow will be paid at 
the child's rate. Xo pension shall be paid if the annual income exceeds 
$3,800." 
(e) Subsection (d) of such section 541 is amended by striking out 
"$16" and inserting in lieu thereof "$17". 
(f) Subsection (a) of section 542 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by striking out "$40" and "$16" and inserting in lieu thereof 
' ^ 2 " and "$17", respectively. 
SEC. 2. Section 503 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
(a) inserting " ( a ) " immediately preceding "In" at the beginning of 
such section, and (b) adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsections: 
"(b) Where a fraction of a dollar is involved, annual income shall 
be fixed at the next lower dollar. 
"(c) The Administrator may provide by regulation for the exclusion 
from income under this chapter of amounts paid by a veteran, widow, 
or child for unusual medical expenses." 
SEC. 3. Paragraph (2) of section 3012(b) of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out "month" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"calendar year". 
SEC. 4. Section 4 of Public Law 90-275 (82 Stat. 68) is amended 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. The annual income limitations governing payment of pen-
sion under the fii*st sentence of section 9(b) of the Veterans' Pension 
Act of 1959 hereafter shall be $2,200 and $3,500, instead of $1,900 and 
$3,200, respectively." 
SEC. 5. (a) Paragraph (30) of section 101 of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended by striking the phrase "for ninety days or more". 
(b) Paragraph (3) of subsection 521 (g) of such title 38 is amended 
by inserting immediately before "World War I" the phrase "the Mex-
ican border period or". 
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on January 1,1972. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
Public Law 92-199 
December 15, 1971 
A N 
A C i 
[s. 2248] 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in certain feasibility 
investigations. 
Water resources 
development proj-
ects. 
Feasibility 
studies. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby authorized to engage in feasibility studies of 
the following potential water resources development projects: 
(a) North Side Pumping Division Extension, Minidoka project, 
Jerome and Minidoka Counties, Idaho. 
(b) Dickinson Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program, 
North Dakota. 
(c) Upper John Day project, on the John Day River in Grant and 
Wheeler Counties, Oregon. 
(d) A plan to rehabilitate the distribution system of the Red Bluff 
project, Texas. 
(e) Rogue River Basin project, Grants Pass Division, Josephine 
and Jackson Counties, Oregon. 
1971. 
78 Stat, 675. 
85 STAT. ] 
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(f) Central Valley project, Delta Division, Montezuma Hills unit 
in southern Solano County, California. 
(g) Gallup project in McKinley, Valencia, and San Juan Counties 
in New Mexico. 
(h) Modification of the Seminoe Dam, Kendrick project, Wyoming. 
(i) Butte Valley division, Klamath project in the Klamath River 
Basin, Klamath County, Oregon, and Siskiyou County, California. 
(j) Billings Municipal Water Supply Unit, Yellowstone Division, 
Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program, Montana. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
Public Law 92-200 
AN ACT 
December 17, 1971 
To amend certain provisions of subtitle II of title 28, District of Columbia Code, 
[s. 1938] 
relating to interest and usury. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the text of 
District of 
section 28-3301 of subtitle I I of title 28, District of Columbia Code, is ^°ieT c^^eJrpro-
amended to read as follows: 
tection Act o
f 
"Except as otherwise provided in section 28-3308, and chapter 36 of 
this subtitle, the parties to an instrument in writing for the payment of 
/n/ra." 
money at a future time may contract therein for the payment of 
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interest on the principal amount thereof at a rate not exceeding 8 per-
cent per annum." 
SEC. 2. The text of clause (2) in the first sentence of section 28-3303 
of subtitle I I of title 28, District of Columbia Code, is amended to read 
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as follows: 
"(2) in writing, to pay-a greater rate than is permitted under 
section 28-3301 or 28-3308 or under chapter 36 of this subtitle, 
the creditor shall forfeit the whole of the interest so contracted to 
be received." 
SEC. 3, Chapter 33 of subtitle I I of title 28, District of Columbia 
Code, is amended by adding the following section: 
D^C^*^" d ^ 2*J 
"§ 28-3308. Finance charge on direct installment loans 
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"(a) On a loan in which the principal does not exceed $25,000 
(other than a loan directly secured on real estate or a direct motor 
vehicle installment loan covered by chapter 36 of this subtitle) to be 
repaid in equal or substantially equal monthly, or other periodic, 
installments, any federally insured bank or savings and loan associa-
tion doing business in the District of Columbia may contract for and 
receive interest at the rate permitted under this chapter or, in lieu of 
such interest, a finance charge, which, if expressed as an annual per-
centage rate, does not exceed a rate of lli/^ percent per annum on the 
unpaid balances of principal. This section does not limit or restrict the 
manner of contracting for the finance charge, whether by way of dis-
count, add-on or simple interest, so long as the annual percentage rate 
of the finance charge does not exceed that permitted by this section. 
"(b) If such installment loan is precomputed.