An Act to authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to sell or exchange certain real property owned by the District in Prince William County, Va.
PL 91-499 (H.R.18086), enacted 10/22/1970

84 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 91-499-OCT. 22, 1970 
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Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the consent of the 
Congress is hereby granted to such agreement and to the establishment 
of such boundary, and such acts of the States of Florida and Georgia 
are hereby approved. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized, empow-
ered, and instructed to survey and properly mark by suitable monu-
ments the seaward boundary between the State of Florida and State 
of Georgia, and so much of the interior boundary as is considered 
necessary by the two States, and the necessary appropriations for this 
work are hereby authorized. 
SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved October 22, 1970. 
Fla. • Ga. 
Boundary agree-
ment. 
Consent of 
Congress. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 91-499 
A N A C T 
October 22, 1970 
To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to sell or exchange 
[H.R. I8O86] 
certain real property owned by the District in Prince William County, Virginia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
sioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter, "Commissioner" and 
"District") is authorized to convey to Prince William County, in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, all right, title, and interest of the District 
in and to a portion, not in excess of thirty-seven acres, of certain real 
property owned by the District and located in that county, comprised 
of approximately three hundred fifty and four-tenths acres of land and 
more particularly described in a deed conveying such real property 
to the District and recorded on May 22, 1922, in liber 77, folio 55, in 
the clerk's office of the circuit court of Prince William County. Such 
conveyance to Prince William County shall be in consideration, among 
other considerations, of the issuance to the District by the county 
authorities of a permit or permits to establish and operate a sanitary 
landfill for the disposal of refuse in an area of the county determined 
by the District of Columbia to be suitable for such use. 
SEC 2. The Commissioner is further authorized to transfer to the 
Secretary of the Interior jurisdiction over all or any part of the bal-
ance of the property described in the first section, including such por-
tions of the property as may be described as "wetlands", by which term 
is meant those low-lying portions of the property in the nature of a 
marsh, swamp, bog, pothole, swale, glade, slash, overflow land of river 
flats, pool, slough, hole, as well as those areas necessary to protect the 
natural features of a contiguous wetland area. The area encompassed 
by the definition of wetlands is to be determined jointly by the Com-
missioner and the Secretary of the Interior. Such transfer to the Sec-
retary of the Interior may be in consideration of the payment by him 
to the District of such sum or sums as may be agreed upon, or m ex-
change for land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Inte-
rior which may be put to some municipal use by the District, approxi-
mately equal in value or area, or both value aild area, to the land trans-
ferred by the District to the Secretary. 
Prince William 
County, Va. 
Conveyance. 
Jurisdiction, 
transfer. 
"Wetlands." 
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Sale or ex-
change. 
Limitation. 
Expenses. 
SEC. 3. Beginning three years after the effective date of this Act, the 
Commissioner is authorized to sell, or to exchange for other real prop-
erty suitable for use by the District, all or any part of so much of the 
balance of the property described in the first section, not including the 
wetlands, as has not been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, pursuant to section 2, within three years after 
enactment of this Act. Any such sale or exchange may either be on the 
basis of competitive bids or by negotiation, as the Commissioner deter-
mines is in tlie best interest of the District of Columbia, The Commis-
sioner is further authorized to pay the reasonable and necessary ex-
penses of the sale or exchange of such land, and shall deposit the net 
proceeds of any such sale in the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of the District of Columbia. 
Approved October 22, 1970. 
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October 22, 1970 
[H. R. 693] 
Public Law 91-500 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38 of the United States Code to provide that veterans who are 
seventy-two years of age or older shall be deemed to be unable to defray the 
expenses of necessary hospital or domiciliary care, and for other purposes. 
Older veterans. 
Medical care, 
expenses. 
72 Stat. 1144. 
78 Stat. 504. 
81 Stat. 183. 
72 Stat. 1141, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That section 622 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting " (a)" immediately 
before "For", and by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this sec-
tion, the receipt of pension under any law administered by the Vet-
erans' Administration shall constitute sufficient evidence of inability to 
defray necessary expenses, and any veteran in receipt of such pension 
shall be exempt from making any statement under oath regarding his 
inability to defray necessary expenses." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (g) of section 612 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended to read as follows: 
"(g) Where any veteran is in receipt of increased pension or addi-
tional compensation or allowance based on the need of regular aid and 
attendance or by reason of being permanently housebound, or who, 
but for the receipt of retired pay, would be in receipt of such pension, 
compensation, or allowance, the Administrator may furnish the 
veteran such medical services as he finds to be reasonably necessary." 
SEC. 3. Subsection (h) of section 612 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting immediately after the words "by reason of 
being" the following: "permanently housebound or". 
SEC. 4. Subsection (a) of section 610 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended (1) by striking out "and" at the end of clause (2); (2) 
by striking out the period at the end of clause (3) and inserting in 
lieu thereof "; and"; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the 
following: 
" (4) any veteran for a non-service-connected disability if such 
veteran is sixty-five years of age or older." 
Approved October 22, 1970. 
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