An Act making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, offices, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other purposes
PL 90-121 (H.R.9960), enacted 11/03/1967

81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
341 
Public Law 90-121 
A N A C T 
November 3, 1967 
Making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, com- 
[H. R. 9960] 
missions, corporations, agencies, offices, and the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and for other 
purposes. 
75 Stat. 46. 
80 Stat. 416. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^ssemhled. That the following 
independent of-
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- m
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wise appropriated, for sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, ^
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commissions, corporations, agencies, offices, and the Department of w^Act, Tge?.''^ 
Housing and Urban Development for the fiscal year endmg June 30, 
1968, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF T H E PKESIDENT 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Council, established by section 201 of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Act of 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2471), including hire of ^PJ^\^\^^^'^' 
passenger motor vehicles, reimbursement of the General Services 
Administration for securitv guard services, and services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $524,000." 
OFFICE OF EMERGENCY PLANNING 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Emergency Planning, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, reimbursement of the 
General Services Administration for security guard services, hire of 
passenger motor vehicles, and expenses of attendance of cooperating 
officials and individuals at meetings concerned with the work of 
emergency planning, $4,700,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
For expenses necessary for the conduct of telecommunications func-
tions assigned to the Director of Telecommunications Management, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,945,000: Provided^ 
That not to exceed $600,000 of the foregoing amount shall remain 
available for telecommunications studies and research until expended. 
CIVIL DEFENSE AND DEFENSE MOBILIZATION FUNCTIONS OF FEDERAL 
AGENCIES 
^ For expenses necessary to assist other Federal agencies to perform 
civil defense and defense mobilization functions, including payments 
by the Department of Labor to State employment security agencies 
for the full cost of administration of defense manpower mobilization 
activities, $3,000,000. 
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OFFK^E OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
80 Stat. 416. 
3 2 F . R . 5765. 
For expenses necessaiy for the Office of Science and Technology, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,550,000. 
PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON POSTAL ORGANIZATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the President's Commission on Postal 
Organization, established by Executive Order 11341 of April 8, 1967, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and including reim-
bursement to the Post Office Department for funds advanced to the 
Commission from the appropriation for Administration and Regional 
Operation, $1,000,000, to be available from August 1, 1967, and to 
remain available until June 30, 1968. 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO T H E PRESIDENT 
DISASTER RELIEF 
For expenses necessarv to carry out the purposes of the Act of 
64 Stat. 1109. 
September 30, 1950, as aiiiended (42 U.S.C. 1855-1855g) and section 9 
42 us^c i^ss^e 
^^ ^^^^ Disaster Relief Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-769), authorizing 
assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, 
$20,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ That not 
to exceed 3 per centum of the foregoing amount shall be available for 
administrative expenses. 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary exjjenses of the Civil Aeronautics Board, including 
employment of temporary guards on a contract or fee basis; hire of 
aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law 
A^nJ^p^'iof.' 
(^ U.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 299); and not to exceed $1,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $8,983,000. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS (LIQUIDATION or CONTRACT 
AUTHORIZATION ) 
For payments to air carriers of so much of the compensation fixed 
and determined bv the Civil Aeronautics Board under section 406 of 
the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1376), as is payable by the 
Board, $52,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; not to exceed $10,000 for medical examinations performed for 
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; payment in advance for 
library membei'ship in societies whose publications are available to 
72 Stat. 763. 
80 Stat. 403. 
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members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; 
not to exceed $101,000 for performing the duties imposed upon the 
Commission by chapter 15 of title 5, United States Code; and not to 
exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses; isos 
$36,000,000, including funding of Interagency Boards of Examiners, 
together with not to exceed $6,100,000, for necessary expenses incurred 
during the current fiscal year in the administration of the retirement 
and insurance programs, to be transferred from the trust funds "Civil 
Service retirement and disability fund'-, "Employees life insurance 
fund", "Employees health benefits fund", and "Ketired employees 
health benefits fund", in such amounts as may be determined by the 
Civil Service Commission, without regard to the provisions of any 
other Act, but this provision shall not affect the authority of 5 U.S.C. 
8348 (a) and section 1 (b) of Public Law 89-205 (79 Stat. 840), provid-
ing for additional administrative expenses to effect annuity adjust-
ments under 5 U.S.C. 8340, section 1(c) of Public Law 89-205 (79 
Stat. 840) and section 1 of Public Law 89-314 (79 Stat. 1162) : 
Provided^ That $700,000 of this appropriation shall be available to 
carry out the provisions of Executive Order 10422 of January 9,1953, 
as amended, prescribing procedures for making available to the Secre-
tary General of the Ignited Nations, and the executive heads of other 
international organizations, certain information concerning United 
States citizens employed, or being considered for employment by 
such organizations, including advances or reimbursements to the 
applicable appropriations or funds of the Civil Service Commission 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses incurred by 
such agencies under said Executive Order: Provided further^ That 
members of the International Organizations Employees Loyalty 
Board may be paid actual transportation expenses, and per diem in 
lieu of subsistence under 5 U.S.C. 5702, while traveling on official 
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business away from their homes or regular places of business, includ-
ing periods while en route to and from and at the place where their 
services are to be performed. 
No part of the appropriations herein made to the Civil Service 
Commission shall be available for the salaries and expenses of the 
Legal Examining L'nit in the Examining and Personnel Utilization 
Division of the Commission, established pursuant to Executive Order 
9358 of July 1,1943. 
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80 Stat. 
80 Stat. 
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note. 
584. 
576. 
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ANNUITIES LENDER SPECIAL ACTS 
256. 
For payment of annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 1944, 
as amended (48 U.S.C. 1373a), and the Act of August 19, 1950, as 
^8 stat. 257 
amended (33 U.S.C. 771-775), $1,300,000. 
70 Stat. 607. 
64 Stat. 465; 
72 Stat. 4<). 
GOVERNMENT 
PAYMENT 
FOR 
ANNUITANTS, 
EMPLOYEES 
HEALTH 
BENEFITS 
For payment of Government contributions with respect to retired 
employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, 
f,^^^^' ^^^• 
and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 8913 
849), as amended, $40,748,000, to remain available uni;il expended. 
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND 
For financing the estimated cost of new and increased annuity 
benefits, during the current fiscal year, as provided by part I I I of 
Public Law 87-793 (76 Stat. 868), $71,000,000, to be credited to the 
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civil service retirement and disability fund. 
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COMMISSION OX POLITICAI. ACTIVITY OF 
GOVERNMENT 
PERSONNEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ''Salaries and expenses", $25,000. 
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in performing the duties of the Commission 
as authorized by law, inchiding not to exceed $40,700 for land and 
structures; not to exceed $12,500 for improvement and care of 
grounds and repairs to buildings; not to exceed $500 for official 
reception and representation expenses; special counsel fees; services 
as authorized by 5 LLS.C. 3109; and purchase of one passenger motor 
vehicle for replacement only, $19,100,000. 
80 Stat. 416. 
FEDERxVL POWER COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the work of the Commission, as author-
ized by law, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $500 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses, $14,220,000. 
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commission, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901; 
AnL^^^Se^' 
^^^ ^^'^^- ^^^)' '^"^ services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $15,150,000: 
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Pt'ovided, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be 
expended upon any investigation hereafter provided by concurrent 
resolution of the Congress until funds are appropriated subsequently 
to the enactment of such resolution to finance the cost of such 
investigation. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATING EXPENSES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of real property 
management and related activities as provided by law; rental of build-
higs in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased premises; mov-
ing Government agencies (including space adjustments) in connection 
with the assignment, allocation, and transfer of building space; acqui-
sition by purchase or otherwise of real estate and interests therein; 
and contractual services incident to cleaning or servicing buildings and 
moving; $260,500,000: Provided, 
That this appropriation shall be 
available to provide such fencing, lighting^ guard booths, and other 
facilities on private or other property not m Government ownership 
or control as may be appropriate to enable the United States Secret 
Service to perform its protective functions pursuant to title 18, U.S.C. 
65 Stat. 122. 
.^056. 
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REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to alter public 
buildings and to acquire additions to sites pursuant to the Public 
Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 479) and to alter other Federally- 
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owned buildings and to acquire additions to sites thereof, including 
grounds, approaches and appurtenances, wharves and piers, together 
with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto; and care and safeguard-
ing of sites; preliminary planning of projects by contract or other-
wise; 
maintenance, 
preservation, 
demolition, 
and 
equipment; 
$80,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided. That for 
the purposes of this appropriation, buildings constructed pursuant 
to the Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of 1954 (40 U.S.C. 
356) and the Post Office Department Property Act of 1954 (39 U.S.C. 
^^ ^tat. sis. 
2104 et seq.), and buildings under the control of another department 
^4 stat. 590. 
or agency where alteration of such buildings is required in connection 
with the moving of such other department or agency from buildings 
then, or thereafter to be, under the control of General Services 
Administration shall be considered to be public buildings. 
CONSTRUCTION, PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECTS 
For an additional amount for expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
necessary to construct and acquire public buildings projects and alter 
public buildings by extension or conversion where the estimated cost 
for a project is in excess of $200,000, pursuant to the Public Buildings 
Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 479), including fallout shelters and equipment 
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for such buildings, $63,757,900, and not to exceed $500,000 of this 
amount shall be available to the Administrator for construction or 
alteration of small public buildings outside the District of Columbia 
as the Administrator approves and deems necessary, all to remain 
available until expended: Provided. That the foregoing amount shall 
be available for public buildings projects at locations and at maximum 
construction improvement costs (excluding funds for sites and 
expenses) as follows: 
Post office and Federal office building, Talladega, Alabama, 
$385,000; 
Courthouse and Federal office building, Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 
addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, $338,000; 
Post office and courthouse, Honolulu, Hawaii, $22,000,000; 
Courthouse and Federal office building, and post office and Federal 
office building, Evansville, Indiana, in addition to the sums heretofore 
appropriated, $710,000; 
Post office and courthouse (constructon and alteration), Ham-
mond, Indiana, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, 
$265,000; 
Courthouse and Federal office building, Frankfort, Kentucky, 
$1,868,000; 
Post office and Federal office building, Springfield, Massachusetts, 
in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, $1,177,000; 
Post office, Lincoln, Nebraska, in addition to the sum heretofore 
appropriated, $369,400; 
Post office and Federal office building, Bronx, New 
York, 
$16,319,000; 
Federal office building, Buffalo, New York, in addition to the sum 
heretofore appropriated, $2,000,000; 
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (extension), Hyde Park, New York, 
$769,000; 
Courthouse and Federal office building, Rochester, New York, in 
addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, $2,036,800; 
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Federal office building, Goldsboro, North Carolina, in addition to 
the sum heretofore appropriated, $205,000; 
Post office, courthouse and Federal office building, Raleigh, North 
Carolina, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, $1,693,000; 
Post onice and courthouse, Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in addition 
to the sum heretofore appropriated, $234,000; 
Post office and Federal office building, Fargo, North Dakota, in 
addition to the sum heretofore appropriated, $437,00,0; 
Post office, Dayton, Ohio, in addition to the sum heretofore appro-
priated, $1,475,000; 
Post office and Federal office building, Baker, Oregon, in addition 
to the sum heretofore appropriated, $274,000; 
Federal office building, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in addition to the 
sum heretofore appropriated, $735,000; 
Federal motor vehicle facility, Houston, Texas, $780,000 ; 
Courthouse and Federal office building, Lubbock, Texas, $4,508,000; 
Federal 
office 
building 
(substructure), 
Seattle, 
Washington, 
$4,500,000; and 
Federal office building (substructure). South Portal, District of 
Columbia, $1,000,000: 
Provided further^ That the foregoing limits of costs may be exceeded 
to the extent that savings are eti'eoted in other projects, but by not to 
exceed 10 per centum: Provided further^ That the amount of $820,300 
appropriated under this liead in the Independent Offices Appropria-
tion Acts, 1963 and 1965, for projects at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and 
Cle Elum, Washington, is hereby made available for the purposes of 
this appropriation. 
76 Stat. 724; 
78 Stat. 651. 
SITES AND EXPENSES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS PROJECTS 
For an additional amount for expenses necessary in connection with 
the construction of public buildings projects not otherwise provided 
for, as specified under this head m the Independent Offices Appro-
72 Stat. 1066; 
priatiou Acts of 1959 and 1960, including preliminary planning of 
public buildings projects by contract or otherwise, Jp20,285,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
PAYMENTS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS PURCHASE CONTRACTS 
For payments of principal, interest, taxes, and any other obligations 
under contracts entered into pursuant to the Public Buildings Pur-
68 Stat. 518. 
chase Contract Act of 1954 (40 U.S.C. 356), $2,350,000. 
EXPENSES, UNITED STATES COURT FACILITIES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to provide 
directly or indirectly, additional space for the United States Courts 
incident to expansion of facilities (including rental of buildings in the 
District of Columbia and elsewhere and moving and space adjust-
ments), and furniture and furnishings, $1,000,000. 
OPERATING EXPENSES, FEDERAL SUPPLY SERVICE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided, necessary for supply distribu-
tion, procurement, inspection, operation of the stores depot system 
(including contractual services incident to receiving, handling, and 
shipping warehouse items), and other supply management and related 
activities, as authorized by law, $68,500,000. 
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AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSIXG FUXD 
For initial capital for the Automatic Data Processing Fund estab-
lished by Section 111 of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949, as amended (79 Stat. 1127), $10,000,000, to 
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remain available without fiscal year limitation. 
OPERATING EXPENSES, NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses in connection with Federal records manage-
ment and related activities, as provided by law, including reimburse-
ment for security guard services, and contractual services incident to 
movement or disposal of records, $17,580,000. 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS GRANTS 
For allocation to Federal agencies, and for grants to State and local 
agencies and nonprofit organizations and institutions, for the collect-
ing, describing, preserving and compiling, and publishing of documen-
tary sources significant to the history of the United States, $350,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
OPERATING EXPENSES, TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of transportation, communications, and 
other public utilities management and related activities, as provided 
by law, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $5,880,000. 
80 Stat. 416. 
73 Stat. 607. 
7 use 1704. 
OPERATING EXPENSES, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL SERVICE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying 
out the functions of the Administrator with respect to the utilization 
of excess property; the disposal of surplus property; the rehabilitation 
of personal property; the national stockpile established by the Stra-
tegic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) ; the 
eo stat. S96. 
supplemental stockpile established pursuant to section 104(b) of the 
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (68 
Stat. 456, as amended) ; the national industrial reserve established by 
the National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. 451-462); 
62^stat.'V225. 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and reimbursement 
for security guard services, $27,300,000, to be derived from proceeds 
from transfers of excess property, disposal of surplus property, and 
sales of stockpile materials: Provided^ That during the current fiscal 
year the General Services Administration is authorized to acquire 
leasehold interests in property, for periods not in excess of twenty 
years, for the storage, security, and maintenance of strategic, critical, 
and other materials in the national and supplemental stockpiles pro-
vided said leasehold interests are at nominal cost to the Government: 
Provided further. That during the current fiscal year there shall be 
no limitation on the value of surplus strategic and critical materials 
which, in accordance with section 6 of the Strategic and Critical Mate-
rials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98e), may be transferred without 
so stat. 598. 
reimbursement to the national stockpile: Provided further^ That dur-
ing the current fiscal year materials in the inventory maintained under 
the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 
2061-2166), and excess materials in the national stockpile and the 
64 stat. 798. 
supplemental stockpile, the disposition of which is authorized by law, 
shall be available, Avithout reimbursement, for transfer at fair market 
value to contractors as payment for expenses (including transporta-
tion and other accessorial expenses) of refining, processing, or other-
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wise beneficiating- materials, or of rotating materials, pursuant to 
section 8 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 
60 Stat. 597. 
U . S . C . 9 8 b ) . 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR 
For expenses of executive direction for activities under the control 
of the General Services Administration, $1,747,000: Provided^ That 
not to exceed $500 shall be available for reception and representation 
expenses. 
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE FACILITIES FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS 
78 Stat. 412. 
3 u s e 102 note. 
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958 (72 
Stat. 838), $285,000: Provided, That the Administrator of General 
Services shall transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections (a) and (e) of 
such Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS FUND 
Funds available to General Services Administration for administra-
tive operations, in support of program activities, shall be expended and 
accounted for, as a whole, through a single fund: Provided, That costs 
and obligations for such administrative operations for the respective 
program activities shall be accounted for in accordance with systems 
approved by the General Accounting Office: Provided further, That 
the total amount deposited into said account for the current fiscal year 
from funds made available to General Services Administration in this 
Act shall not exceed $16,650,000: Provided further, That amounts de-
posited into said account for administrative operations for each pro-
gram shall not exceed the amounts included in the respective program 
appropriations for such purposes. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the General 
Services Administration shall be credited with (1) cost of operation, 
protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as 
part of rentals received from Government corporations pursuant to law 
61 Stat. 584. 
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to bonds and other obligations under the jurisdiction of the General 
Services Administration, issued by public authorities. States, or other 
public bodies, and such services in respect to such bonds or obligations 
as the Administrator deems necessary and in the public interest may, 
upon the request and at tlie expense of the issuing agencies, be provided 
from the appropriate foregoing appropriation; and (8) appropria-
tions or funds available to other agencies, and transferred to the 
General Services Administration, in connection with property trans-
ferred to the General Services Administration pursuant to the Act of 
5ousc*'45i^^' e '^^^^ ^' ^^^'^ (^^ U.S.C. 451ff), aiid such appropriations or funds may 
be so transferred, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget. 
Appropriations to the General Services Administration under the 
heading "Construction, Public Buildings Projects" made in this Act 
shall be available, subject to the provisions of the Public Buildings 
!^T^e^'.l^^\ 
Act of 1959 for (1) acquisition of buildings and sites thereof by pur-
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chase, condemnation, or otherwise, mchiding prepayment or purchase 
contracts, (2) extension or conversion of Government-owned buildings, 
and (8) construction of new buildings, in addition to those set forth 
under that appropriation: Provided, 
That nothing herein shall au-
thorize an expenditure of funds for acquisition, extension or con-
63 Stat. 377. 
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40 use 601 note. 
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version, or construction without the approval of tlie Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives. 
Funds available to the General Services Administration shall be 
available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act for 
any agency of the executive branch of the Government shall be used 
during the current fiscal year for the purchase within the continental 
limits of the United States of any typewriting machines except in 
accordance with regulations issued pursuant to the provisions of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended. 
Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation made available to 
the General Services Administration for the current fiscal j^ear by this 
Act may be transferred to any other such appropriation, but no such 
appropriation shall be increased thereby more than 2 per centum: 
Provided. That such transfers shall apply only to operating expenses, 
and shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount of $2,000,000. 
Appropriations available to any department or agency during the 
current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including maintenance or 
operating expenses, shall also be available for (a) reimbursement to 
the General Services Administration for those expenses of renovation 
and alteration of buildings and facilities which constitute public 
improvements, performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act 
of 1959 (73 Stat. 479) or other applicable law, and (b) transfer or 
reimbursement to applicable appropriations to said Administration 
for rents and related expenses, not otherwise provided for, of pro-
viding subject to Executive Order 11035, dated July 9, 19(32, directly 
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or indirectly, suitable general purpose space for any such department 
or agency, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere. 
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for 
the payment of rental on lease agreements for the accommodation of 
Federal agencies in buildings and improvements which are to be 
erected by the lessor for such agencies at an estimated cost of con-
struction in excess of $200,000 or for the payment of the salary of any 
person who executes such a lease agreement: Provided^ That the fore-
going proviso shall not be applicable to projects for which a prospectus 
for the lease construction of space has been submitted to the Congress 
and approval made in the same manner as for the public buildings 
construction projects pursuant to the Public Buildings Act of 1959. 
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in-
cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $23,460,000: Provided, 
so stat. 4i6. 
That Joint Board members and cooperating State commissioners may 
use Government transportation requests when traveling in connection 
with their duties as such. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the purposes of the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861-1875) 
Title I X of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 
1876-1879), the National Sea Grant Colleges and Program Act of 
1966 (80 Stat. 998) and the Act to establish a National Medal of 
Science (42 U.S.C. 1880-1881), including award of graduate fellow-
64 Stat. 
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149. 
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ships; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; purchase of two air-
craft, maintenance and operation of three aircraft and purchase of 
) 
flight 
services for research support; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation expenses; 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
An^e^T206^' 
^^^l5 ^9 ^tat. 299); rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia; and reimbursement of the General Services Administration 
for security guard services: $495,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided. That of the foregoing amount not less than $37,-
600,000 shall be available for tuition, grants, and allowances in con-
nection wdth a program of supplementary training for secondary 
school science and mathematics teachers: Provided further, That re-
ceipts for scientific support services and materials furnished by the 
Xational Research Centers may be credited to this appropriation. 
REXEGOTIATION BOAEI) 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Renegotiation Board, including hire 
of passenger motor vehicles and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $2,600,000. 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 299), and services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $17,350,000. 
SELECTIVE 
SERVICE 
SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the 
Selective Service System, as authorized by title I of the Universal 
Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, includ-
45^^ -— "ft'- 
i^g services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; expenses of attendance 
at meetings and of training for uniformed personnel assigned to the 
^ v.^^ ,.^. 
Selective Service System, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 2301-2318) 
4n8"and"notes. 
foF civilian employees; hire of motor vehicles; purchase of thirteen 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; not to exceed $67,800 
for the National Selective Service Appeal Board; and $49,000 for the 
National Advisory Committee on the Selection of Physicians, Den-
tists, and Allied Specialists; $57,455,000: Provided, That during the 
current fiscal year, the President may exempt this appropriation from 
the provisions of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, 
as amended, whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the 
interest of national defense. 
65 Stat. 75. 
50 use app. 
80 Stat. 432. 
5 u s e 4101-
31 u s e 665. 
VETERANS 
ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by law; not to exceed $1,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle 
(medium sedan for replacement only) at not to exceed $3,000; hire 
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351 
of passenger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General 
Services Administration for security ^ a r d services; $183,221,000: 
Provided^ That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay in 
excess of twenty-two persons engaged in public relations work. 
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for administration of the medical, hospital, 
domiciliary, construction and supply, research, employee education 
and training activities, as authorized by law, and for carrying out 
the provisions of section 5055, title 38, United States Code, relating to 
s° ^*^*- ^'^'^^• 
pilot programs and grants for exchange of medical information, 
$13,975,000. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for carrying out programs of medical and 
prosthetic research and development, as authorized by law, to remain 
available until expended, $45,850,000. 
MEDICAL CARE 
For expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of hos-
pitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facilities; for furnishing, as 
authorized by law, inpatient and outpatient care and treatment to 
beneficiaries of the Veterans Administration including care and treat-
ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Adminis-
tration, and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies and equipment; 
maintenance and operation of farms and burial grounds; repairing, 
altering, improving or providing facilities in the several hospitals and 
homes under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, either by contract, or by the hire of temporary 
employees and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances therefor 
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 299); and aid to State 
j,f^^^^^^\ll^' 
homes as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 641); $1,357,293,000, plus re- 
"s^'stat. soo. 
imbursements: Provided^ That allotments and transfers may be made 
from this appropriation to the Public Health Service of the Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Army, Navy, and 
Air Force of the Department of Defense, for disbursements by them 
under the various headings of their applicable appropriations, of such 
amounts as are necessary for the care and treatment of beneficiaries of 
the Veterans Administration. 
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS 
For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allow-
ances, including burial awards, burial flags, subsistence allowances for 
vocational rehabilitation, emergency and other officers' retirement pay, 
adjusted-service credits and certificates, as authorized by law; and for 
payment of amounts of compromises or settlements under 28 U.S.C. 
2677 of tort claims potentially subject to the offset provisions of 38 
^° ^*^*- 3'^7. 
U.S.C. 351, $4,558,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
^2 stat. 1124; 
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READJUSTMENT BENEFITS 
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation benefits to or on 
behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 21, 31 
(except section 1504), and 33-39), $427,200,000, to remain available 
^2 stat. n67; 
until expended. 
so stat. 12-28. 
38 u s e 801, 
1501-1901. 
85-622 0-68—25 
352 
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[81 STAT. 
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES 
For military and naval insurance, national service life insurance, 
servicemen's indemnities, and service-disabled veterans insurance, to 
remain available until expended, $7,150,000, of which $2,000,000 shall 
be derived from the Veterans Special Term Insurance Fund. 
GRANTS TO THE REPUBLIC or THE PHILIPPINES 
72 Stat. 1145. 
72 Stat. 1251; 
80 Stat. 1372. 
For payment to the Republic of the Philippines of grants, as author-
ized by law (38 U.S.C. 631-634), $1,325,000. 
CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITAL AND DOMICILIARY FACILITIES 
For hospital and domiciliary facilities, for planning and for major 
alterations, improvements, and repairs and extending any of the facili-
ties under the jurisdiction of the Veterans Administration or for any 
of the purposes set forth in sections 5001, 5002, and 5004, title 38, 
United States Code, including necessary expenses of administration, 
$52,600,000, to remain available until expended. 
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION or STATE NURSING HOMES 
For grants to assist the several States to construct State home 
facilities for furnishing nursing home care to veterans, as authorized 
78 Stat. 501. 
by law (38 U.S.C. 5031-5037), $4,000,000, to remain available until 
June 30,1970. 
PARTICIPATION SALES AUTHORIZATION 
The Federal National Mortgage Association, as trustee, is hereby 
authorized to issue beneficial interests or participations in such loan 
assets of the Direct Loan Revolving Fund and the Loan Guaranty 
Revolving Fund as may be placed m trust with such association in 
accordance with section 302(c) of the Federal National Mortgage 
8o^s ^'^'164^°' 
Association charter act, as amended, in an aggregate principal amount 
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of not to exceed $850,000,000, in addition to amounts heretofore 
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authorized: Provided^ That this authorization shall remain available 
untilJune30,1969. 
PAYMENT OF SALES INSUFFICIENCIES 
For the payment of such insufficiencies as may be required by the 
trustee on account of outstanding beneficial interests or participations 
in Direct Loan Revolving Fund Assets or Loan Guaranty Revolving 
Fund assets authorized by this act to be issued pursuant to said section 
302(c), as amended, not to exceed $665,000. 
LOAN GUARANTY REVOLVING FUND 
During the current fiscal year, the Loan guaranty revolving fund 
shall be available for expenses, but not to exceed $386,046,000, for 
property acquisitions and other loan guaranty and insurance opera-
38 use llol- 
tions mider Chapter 37, title 38, United States Code, except admin-
1826. 
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istrative expenses, as authorized by section 1824 of such title: Pro-
74 Stat. 533. 
vided. That the unobligated balances including retained earnings of 
the Direct loan revolving fund shall be available, during the current 
fiscal year, for transfer to the Loan guaranty revolving fund in such 
amounts as may be necessary to provide for the timely payment of 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
353 
obligations of such fund and the Administrator of ^^eterans Affairs 
shall not be required to pay interest on amounts so transferred after 
the time of such transfer. 
A D ] M INISTUATIVE 
P R O V I S I O X S 
Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation for the current 
fiscal year for "Compensation and pensions'', ''Readjustment benefits", 
and "Veterans insurance and indemnities'" may be transferred to any 
other of the mentioned appropriations, but not to exceed 10 per centum 
of the appropriations so augmented. 
Appropriations available to the Veterans Administration for the 
current fiscal year for salaries and expenses shall be available for serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109. 
80 Stat. 416. 
The appropriation aAailable to the Veterans Administration for the 
current fiscal year for "Medical care" shall be available for funeral, 
burial, and other expenses incidental thereto (except burial awards 
authorized by 38 IT.S.C. 902), for beneficiaries of the Veterans Admin- ^'Jl stat. 1169; 
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]stration receiving care under such appropriations. 
No part of the appropriations in this Act for the Veterans Admin-
istration (except the appropriation for "Construction of hospital and 
domiciliary facilities") shall be aA^ailable for the purchase of any site 
for or toward the construction of any new hospital or home. 
Xo part of the foregoing appropriations shall be available for hos-
l)italization or examination of any persons except beneficiaries entitled 
under the laAvs bestowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimburse-
ment of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may be fixed 
by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. 
DEPAKTMEXT OF DEFENSE 
CIVIL DEFENSE 
orEIfATION AND 
MAINTENANCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying out 
civil defense activities, including the hire of motor vehicles; and 
financial c(mtributions to the States for civil defense purposes, as 
authorized by law, $66,100,000, of which not to exceed $18,500,000 
shall be available for allocation under section 205 of the Federal Civil 
Defense Act of 1950, as amended. 
,Jl s'^*-533; 
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78 Stat. 231. 
50 u s e app. 
RESEARCIT, SHELTER SURVEY AND MARKING 
2286. 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for studies and 
research to develop measures and plans for civil defense; and con-
tinuing shelter surveys, marking, stocking, and equipping surveyed 
spaces; $20,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
CIVIL DEFENSE 
Appropriations contained in this Act for carrying out civil de-
fense activities shall not be available in excess of the limitations on 
appropriations contained in section 408 of the Federal Civil Defense 
Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2260). 
72^stau'534'."' 
No part of any appropriation in this Act shall be available for the 
construction of warehouses or for the lease of warehouse space in any 
building which is to be constructed specifically for civil defense 
.activities. 
354 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
[81 STAT. 
DEPARTMENT OF PIEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
EMERGENCY HEALTH ACTIVITIES 
For expenses iiecessaiy for carrying- out emergency planning and 
preparedness functions of the Public Health Service, and procure-
ment, storage (including underground storage), distribution, and 
maintenance of emergency civil defense medical supplies and equip-
^g64^stau^i^249; 
meut as authorized by law (50 U.S.C., App. 2281(h)), $9,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
HOUSING 
AND 
URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
RENEWAL AND HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
GRANTS FOR NEUJHBORHOOI) FACILITIES 
For grants authorized by section 703 of the Housing and Urban 
79 Stat. 491. 
Development Act of 1965 (42 I^S.C. 3103), $30,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary administrative expenses of programs of renewal and 
liousing assistance, not otherwise provided for, $31,950,000. 
URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMS 
63 Stat. 414. 
For grants for urban renewal, fiscal year 1969, as an additional 
amount for urban renewal programs, as authorized by title I of the 
Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 LT.S.C. 1450 et seq.), and section 
7sltVt%T'' 
-^1^ of the Housing Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1452a), $750,-
000,000, to remain available mitil expended: Provided, That no part 
of any appropriation in this Act shall be used for administrative 
expenses in connection with commitments for grants aggregating more 
than the total of amounts available in the current year from the 
amounts authorized for making such commitments through June 30, 
1967, plus the additional amounts appropriated therefor. 
LOW RENT PUBLIC HOUSING A N N U A L 
CONTRIBUTIONS 
For the payment of annual contributions to public housing agencies 
in accordance with section 10 of the United States Housing Act of 
]937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1410), $275,000,000. 
50 Stat. 891. 
HOUSING FOR T H E ELDERLY OR HANDICAPPED 
F U N D 
For the revolving fund established pursuant to section 202 of the 
jJltTt^'isfJ'' 
Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701q et seq.), $25,000,-
000, to remain available until expended. 
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT 
URBAN PLANNING GRANTS 
For an additional amount for "Urban planning grants", $45,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
355 
OPEN SPACE LAND PROGRAMS 
75 Stat. 183; 
79 Stat. 494. 
For grants as authorized by title V I I of the Housing Act of 1961, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1500-1500e), and the provision of technical 
assistance to State and local public bodies (including the undertaking 
of studies and publication of information), $75,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided., That no part of anj appropria-
tion in this Act shall be used for administrative expenses m connection 
with commitments entered into during the current fiscal year for 
grants aggregating more than the total amounts available in the cur-
rent year from amounts heretofore appropriated for making such 
commitments through June 30, 1967, plus the additional amount ap-
propriated herein: Provided further. That no part of this appropria-
tion may be used for financing a grant in excess of 50 per centum of 
the cost of any activity or project. 
GRANTS FOR BASIC WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES 
For grants authorized by section 702 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3102), $165,000,000, to remain 
^^ ^tat. 49o. 
available until expended. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary administrative expenses of programs of metropolitan 
development, not otherwise provided for, $6,100,000. 
URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION GRANTS 
For grants as authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 
1964, as amended (49 LT.S.C. 1601 et seq.), for the fiscal year 1969, goltaS^n^s"^' 
$175,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
DEMONSTRATIONS AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
MODEL C I T I E S 
PROGRAMS 
For financial assistance and administrative expenses in connection 
wath planning and carrying out comprehensive city demonstration 
programs, as authorized by title I of the Demonstration Cities and 
Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 1255-1261), includ- J^^^^^ ^^''^^• 
ing $100,000,000 for grants for urban renewal projects within approved 
city demonstration programs, to be transferred to and merged with 
the appropriation "tlrban renewal programs" for the fiscal year 1968 
in accordance with and subject to the provisions of section 113 of 
said Act, $312,000,000: Provided., That the amount appropriated herein 
for other than urban renewal programs shall remain available until 
June 30,1969. 
I'RBAN INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 
For grants authorized by title I X of the Demonstration Cities and 
Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (80 Stat. 1282-1284), ..'l^ use 3351. 
$2,200,000. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS 
For matching grants to States for training and related activities, 
and for expenses of providing technical assistance to State and local 
governmental or public bodies (including studies and publication of 
information), as authorized bv title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 
(20 U.S.C. 801-805), $3,000,o5o. 
78 stat. 802. 
42 u s e 1453. 
356 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
[81 STAT. 
FELLOWSHIPS FOR CITY PLAXXING AXD URBAN STUDIES 
Ante, p. 167. 
For fellowships for city planning and urban studies as authorized by 
section 810 of the Housing Act of 1964 (20 U.S.C. 811), $500,000. 
URBAX RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses of programs of research and studies relat-
ing to housing and urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as 
authorized by law (12 U.S.C. l701d-3; I701e; I701f; 79 Stat. 668; 
ealtau^'i!'^' 
80 Stat. 1286-1287), $10,000,000. 
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seq, 3372, 3373. 
L Q W INCOME HOUSING DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS 
For low income housing demonstration programs pursuant to sec-
7/sta!^*503^^' 
tion 207 of the Housing Act of 1961, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1436), 
$2,000,000: Provided, That no part of any appropriation in this Act 
f^ihall be available for administrative expenses m connection with con-
tracts to make grants in excess of the amount herein appropriated. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary administrative expenses of programs of demonstra-
tions and intergovernmental relations, not otherwise provided for, 
$1,850,000, together with not to exceed $2,500,000 to be derived from 
the appropriation for "Model cities programs": Provided, That no 
part of this or any other appropriation in this Act may be used to 
provide metropolitan expediters, or for the administration or imple-
mentation of section 204 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan 
Development Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-754). 
80 Stat. 1262. 
42 use 3334. 
68 Stat. 623. 
M O R T G A G E 
C R E D I T 
RENT S U P P L E M E N T PROGRAM 
For rent supplement payments authorized by section 101 of the 
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Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, $5,000,000: Provided, 
and note. 
That the limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments 
that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into 
under such section is increased by $10,000,000: Provided 
further, 
That no part of the foregoing appropriation or contract authority shall 
be used for incurring any obligation in connection with any dwelling 
unit or project which is not either part of a workable program for com-
munity improvement meeting the requirements of section 101(c) of 
the Housing Act of 1949, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1451 (c)), or which 
is without local official approval for participation in this program. 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal Housing 
Administration in carrying out functions under section 101 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, delegated by the 
Secretary, $1,100,000. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Secretary, not other-
wise provided for, in overall program planning and direction in the 
Department, including not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $4,000,000. 
REGIONAL MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES 
For necessary administrative expenses^ not otherwise provided for, 
of management and program coordination in the regional offices of 
the Department, $5,300,000. 
78 Stat. 800; 
80 Stat. 164, 
12 u s e 1717. 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
357 
PARTICIPATION SALES AUTHORIZATIONS 
The Federal National Mortgage Association, as trustee, is herebj 
authorized to issue beneficial interests or participations in such obli-
gations as may be placed in trust with such Association in accordance 
vvdth section 302(c) of the Federal Xational Mortgage Association 
Charter Act, as amended, for the account of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development (including the Federal National Mort- las'e 
gage Association) not to exceed $2,385,000,000, in addition to amounts 
heretofore authorized, in not to exceed the following principal 
amounts: Public facility loan fund, $80,000,000; College housing loan 
fund, $1,600,000,000; Housing for the elderly or handicapped fund, 
$100,000,000; FNMA special assistance functions, $250,000,000; and 
FNMA management and liquidation functions, $355,000,000: Pro-
vided, That the foregoing authorizations shall remain available until 
June 30, 1969. 
PAYMENT 
OF 
PARTICIPATION 
SALES 
I N S U m C I E N C I E S 
For the payment of such insufficiencies as may be required by the 
trustee on account of outstanding beneficial interests or participations 
authorized by this Act to be issued pursuant to section 302(c) of the 
Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, as amended, not 
to exceed $23,000,000. 
WORKING 
CAPITAL 
FUND 
Not to exceed $1,500,000 of appropriations and funds available shall 
be available for capital for the working capital fund to be established 
pursuant to section 7(f) of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 670), to remain available until 
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expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Where appropriations in this title are expendable for travel 
Travel expenses. 
expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed 
thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not exceed the 
amounts set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for the 
appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not apply to travel 
performed by uncompensated officials of local boards and appeal boards 
of the Selective Service System; to travel performed in connection 
with the investigation of aircraft accidents by the Civil Aeronautics 
Board; to travel performed directly in connection with care and treat-
ment of medical beneficiaries of the Veterans Administration; or to 
Eayments to interagency motor pool where separately set forth in the 
udget schedules. 
SEC. 103. No part of any appropriation contained in this title shall 
j^ °ees'°'^^te°-n^'"" 
be available to pay the salarv of any person filling a position, other A™ed Fo"ce"."^ 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has 
left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satis-
factorily completed his period of active military or naval service and 
has within ninety days after his release from such service or from 
hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more 
than one year made application for restoration to his former position 
and has been certified by the Civil Service Commission as still qualified 
to perform the duties of his former position and has not been restored 
thereto. 
SEC. 104. No part of any appropriation made available by the provi- ..h^se^^j^r^saie ^"'•* 
sions of this title shall be used for the purchase or sale of real estate or resTrictTon? ^' 
for the purpose of establishing new offices outside the District of 
61 Stat. 584. 
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80 Stat. 416. 
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[81 STAT. 
Columbia: Provided, 
That this limitation shall not apply to pro-
grams which have been approved by the Congress and appropriations 
made therefor. 
TITLE II—CORPORATIONS 
The following corporations and agencies, res^Dectively, are hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits-of funds 
and borrowing authority available to each such corporation or agency 
and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments 
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 
of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be 
necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for 
the current fiscal year for each such corporation or agency, except as 
hereinafter provided: 
FEDERAL 
HOME 
LOAN 
BANK BOARD 
LIMITATION ON AoMiNisntATivE AND NONADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSP:S, 
FEDERAL HOME I ^ A N BANK BOARD 
Not to exceed a total of $4,540,000 shall be available for administra-
tive expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which may pro-
cure services as authorized by 5 L'.S.C. 3109, and contracts for such 
services with one organization may be renewed annually, and uniforms 
or allowances therefor in accordance with law (5 U.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 
80 Stat. 508; 
299), aiid said amount shall be derived from funds available to the 
Ante, p. 206. 
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, including those in the Federal Home 
Loan Bank Board revolving fund and receipts of the Board for the 
current fiscal year and prior fiscal years, and the Board may utilize 
and may make payment for services and facilities of the Federal home-
loan banks, the Federal Reserve banks, the Federal Savings and Loan 
Insurance Corporation, and other agencies of the Government (includ-
ing payment for office space) : Provided, That all necessary expenses 
in connection with the conservatorship of institutions insured by the 
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation or activities relat-
47 Stat. 729. 
\y^„ ^Q sectiou 6(1) of thc Federal Home Loan Bank Act, section 5(d) 
12 TTSO 1426 
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of the Hoiue Owner's Loan Act of 1933, or section 407 or 408 of the 
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National Housing Act and all necessary expenses (including services 
73^stat?*69u^^' 
performed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal 
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services) in connection with the handling, including the purchase, sale, 
^^^°^' 
and exchange, of securities on behalf of Federal home-loan banks, and 
the sale, issuance, and retirement of, or payment of interest on, deben-
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tures or bonds, under the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, as amended, 
shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes 
hereof: Prot'ided further. That members and alternates of the Federal 
Savings and Loan Advisory Council shall be entitled to reimbursement 
from the Board as approved by the Board for transportation expenses 
incurred in attendance at meetings of or concerned with the work of 
such Council and may be paid not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of 
subsistence: Provided 
further. 
That expenses of any functions of 
supervision (except of Federal home-loan banks) vested in or exer-
cisable by the Board shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses: 
Provided further. That not to exceed $1,000 shall be available for 
official reception and representation expenses: Provided further. That, 
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, except for the limi-
tation in amount hereinbefore specified, the administrative expenses 
and other obligations of the Board shall be incurred, allowed, and paid 
in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Hpme Loan Bank Act 
81 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 90-121-NOV. 3, 1967 
359 
of July 22,1932, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1421-1449) : Provided further, 
^^ s*^*- ^^s. 
That the nonadministrative expenses (except those included in the 
first proviso hereof) for the supervision and examination of Federal 
and State chartered institutions (other than special examinations de-
termined by the Board to be necessary) shall not exceed $13,650,000. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTILVTIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL SAVINGS AND 
LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION 
Not to exceed $298,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, 
which shall be on an accrual basis and shall be exclusive of interest 
paid, depreciation, property capitalized expenditures, expenses in 
connection with liquidation of insured institutions or activities re-
lating to section 407 or 408 of the National Housing Act, liquidation ya^stat^'eg^^^^' 
or handling of assets of or derived from insured institutions, payment 
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of insurance, and action for or toward the avoidance, termination, or i^aoa. 
minimizing of losses in the case of insured institutions, legal fees and 
expenses, and payments for expenses of the Federal Home Loan Bank 
Board determined by said Board to be properly allocable to said 
Corporation, and said Corporation may utilize and may make pay-
ments for services and facilities of the Federal home-loan banks, 
the Federal Reserve banks, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and 
other agencies of the Government: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provisions of this Act, except for the limitation in amount 
hereinbefore specified, the administrative expenses and other obliga-
tions of said Corporation shall be incurred, allowed and paid in 
accordance w^ith title IV of the Act of June 27, 1934, as amended 
(12 U.S.C. 1724-I730b). 
^s stat. 1255, 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
HOUSING 
AND 
URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, COLLEGE HOUSING LOANS 
Not to exceed $2,200,000 shall be available for all administrative ex-
penses of carrying out the program of housing loans to educational 
institutions (12 U.S.C. 1749-1749d). 
,^4 stat 77; 
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LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY 
O
R HANDICAPPED 
Not to exceed $1,232,000 of funds in the revolving fund established 
pursuant to section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended (12 
U.S.C. I701q et seq.), shall be available for administrative expenses. 
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7
; 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, PUBLIC FACILITY LOANS 
Not to exceed $1,187,000 of funds in the revolving fund established 
pursuant to title I I of the Housing Amendments of 1955, as amended, 
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shall be available for administrative expenses. 
1497. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, REVOLVING FUND 
(LIQUIDATING PROGRAMS) 
During the current fiscal year not to exceed $100,000 shall be avail-
able for administrative expenses, but this amount shall be exclusive 
of expenses necessary in the case of defaulted obligations to protect the 
interests of the Government. 
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[81 STAT. 
48 Stat. 1246. 
63 Stat. 905. 
12 u s e 1702. 
50 Stat. 888. 
Publicity or 
propaganda. 
Personnel 
work. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND XONADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
For administrative expenses in carrying out duties imposed by or 
pursuant to law, not to exceed $11,000,000 of the various funds of the 
Federal Housing Administration shall be available, in accordance with 
the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701) ; Provided, 
That funds shall be available for contract actuarial services (not to 
exceed $1,500) : Provided further^ That nonadministrative expenses 
classified by section 2 of Public Law 387, approved October 25, 1949, 
shall not exceed $87,000,000. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL NATIONAL 
MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
Not to exceed $9,600,000 shall be available for administrative 
expenses, which shall be on an accrual basis, and shall be exclusive of 
interest paid, expenses (including expenses for fiscal agency services 
performed on a contract or fee basis) in connection with the issuance 
and servicing of securities, depreciation, properly capitalized expendi-
tures, fees for servicing mortgages, expenses (including services 
performed on a force account, contract, or fee basis, but not including 
other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, protection, 
operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of real or per-
sonal property belonging to said Association or in which it has an 
interest, cost of salaries, wages, travel, and other expenses of persons 
employed outside of the continental United States, and all adminis-
trative expenses reimbursable from other Government agencies: Pro-
vided^ That the distribution of administrative expenses to the accounts 
of the Association shall be made in accordance with generally rec-
ognized accounting principles and practices. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, LOW RENT PUBLIC HOUSING 
Administrative expenses of carrying out the provisions of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1401-1433) 
shall be provided for from amounts appropriated therefor in this Act, 
except that necessary expenses of providing representatives at the 
sites of non-Federal projects in connection with the construction 
of such projects by public housing agencies with aid under the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall be compensated 
by such agencies by the payment of fixed fees which in the aggregate 
will cover the costs of rendering such services, and expenditures for 
such purpose shall be considered nonadministrative expenses, and 
funds received from such payments may be used only for the pay-
ment of necessary expenses of providing such representatives. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the 
Congress. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency in-
cluded in this Act, shall be used to pay the compensation of any em-
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ployee engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that would 
be provided by a ratio of one such employee to one hundred and thirty-
five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees 
of the corporation or agency concerned: Provided^ That for purposes 
of this section employees shall be considered as engaged in personnel 
work if they spend half-time or more in personnel administration con-
sisting of direction and administration of the personnel program; 
employment, placement, and separation; job evaluation and classifica-
tion ; employee relations and services; wage administration; and proc-
essing, recording, and reporting. 
SEC. 303. Appropriations and funds available for the administrative 
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall 
be available in the current fiscal year for purchase of uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 IJ.S.C. 5901; 80 Stat. 299); 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 304. Funds made available for the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development under title I I of this Act shall be available, 
without regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal 
services on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making pay-
ment for services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Associ-
ation, Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof. Federal home-
loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-
1831). 
SEC. 305 Xone of the funds provided herein shall be used to pay any 
recipient of a grant for the conduct of a research project an amount 
equal to as much as the entire cost of such project. 
SEC. 306. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices and Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Appropriation Act, 1968". 
Approved November 3, 1967. 
Uniforms, etc. 
80 Stat. 508; 
Ante, p. 20<). 
80 Stat, 416. 
Legal and bank-
ing services;. 
64 Stat. 873. 
Research proj-
ects. 
Short title. 
Public Law 90-122 
A N A C T 
November 3, 1967 
To authorize the Secretaries concerned to direct the initiation of allotments of 
[H. R. 4772] 
the pay and allowances of certain members of the Armed Forces for the 
purpose of making deposits under section 10.3.5 of title 10, United States Code. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and Houae of RefteHentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1035 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amejided by adding tlie following new 
subsection: 
"(e) The Secretary concerned, or his designee, may in the interest 
of a member who is m a missing status (as defined in section 551(2) 
of title 37) or his dependents, initiate, stop, modify, and change allot-
ments, and authorize a withdrawal of deposits, made under this sec-
tion, even though the member had an opportunity to deposit amounts 
under this section and elected not to do so. Interest may be computed 
from the day the member entered a missing status, or September 1, 
]066, whichever is later." 
SKC. 2. This Act becomes effective as of September 1,1966, 
Approved November 3, 1967, 
Uniformed .'serv-
ices. 
Savings deposits 
program. 
80 Stat. 347, 
80 Stat, 62;;,