An Act to increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the Missouri River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior
PL 91-218 (S.3427), enacted 03/25/1970

84 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 91-218-MAR. 25, 1970 
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perform such duties as the Director, United States Secret Service, 
may prescribe in connection with the protection of the following: 
(1) the Executive Mansion and grounds in the District of Colum-
bia; (2) any building in which Presidential oiRces are located; 
(3) the President and members of his immediate family; (4) for-
eign diplomatic missions located in the metropolitan area of the 
District of Columbia; and (6) foreign diplomatic missions located 
in such other areas in the United States, its territories and posses-
sions, as the President, on a case-by-case basis, may direct."; 
(4) by striking the words "two hundred and fifty" in the first 
sentence of subsection (a) of section 203 and inserting in lieu 
thereof "eight hundred and fifty"; 
(5) by striking out the last two sentences of section 203(a) ; 
(6) by amending section 203 (b) to read as follows: 
"(b) Members of the Executive Protective Service shall be 
recruited under the civil service law^s and regulations on a nationwide 
basis. Members of such Service may also be appointed from the mem-
bers of the Metropolitan Police force and the United States Park 
Police force from lists furnished by the officers in charge of such 
forces. Whenever any vacancy is created in the Metropolitan Police 
force or the United States Park Police force as the result of an appoint-
ment to the Executive Protective Service, such vacancy shall be filled 
in the manner provided by law. In the period of time which follows 
the date of enactment of this sentence and precedes January 1, 1975, 
not more than thirty members of the Metropolitan Police force may be 
appointed annually to the Executive Protective Service." 
(7) by striking out section 205; and 
(8) by striking out in section 206 "Members appointed pursuant 
to section 205 of this title" and inserting in lieu thereof "Members 
of the Executive Protective Service not appointed from the Metro-
politan Police force or the United States Park Police force". 
Approved March 19, 1970. 
66 Stat. 283; 
76 Stat. 95. 
62 Stat. 680. 
Recruiting 
procedure. 
Limitation. 
Civil service 
appointees, 
privileges. 
62 Stat. 681. 
Public Law 91-218 
AN ACT 
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the 
Missouri River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior. 
March 25, 1970 
[S. 3427] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That there is hereby 
Missouri River 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 1971 and 1972 the sum of 
A^ppjopriation 
$32,000,000 for continuing the works in the Missouri Eiver Basin to be authorization, 
undertaken by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the compre-
hensive plan adopted by section 9(a) of the Act approved December 22, 
1944 (Public Law Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress), as 
amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. No part 
of the funds hereby authorized to be appropriated shall be available 
to initiate construction of any unit of the Missouri River Basin project, 
whether included in said comprehensive plan or not. 
Approved March 25, 1970. 
increase. 
58 Stat. 891; 
82 Stat. 129.