An Act to revise the laws relating to depository libraries
PL 87-579 (H.R.8141), enacted 08/09/1962

352 
PUBLIC LAW 87-579-AUG. 9, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
60 Stat. 810. 
63 Stat. 875. 
48 u s e 1407 
note, 1407e. 
61 Stat. 584. 
31 u s e 849. 
Short title. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS, RELATED AGENCIES 
The per diem rate, unless an agency is otherwise limited by law to 
payment of a lesser per diem, paid from appropriations made avail-
able under this title for services as authorized by section 15 of the 
Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), shall not exceed $75. 
TITLE III—VIRGIN ISLANDS CORPORATION 
REVOLVING FUND 
For an additional amount for the revolving fund established under 
this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, for advances 
to the Virgin Islands Corporation, as authorized by law (63 Stat. 
350; 72 Stat. 1760), $200,000. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, VIRGIN ISLANDS 
CORPORATION 
During the current fiscal year the Virgin Islands Corporation is 
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
funds available to it and in accord with law, and to make such con-
tracts 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 its programs as set 
forth in the budget for the current fiscal year: Provided, That not to 
exceed $180,000 shall be available for administrative expenses (to be 
computed on an accrual basis) of the Corporation, covering the cate-
gories set forth in the 1963 budget estimates for such expenses. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1963." 
Approved August 9, 1962. 
August 9, 1962 
[H. R. 814 I] 
Depository Li-
brary Act of 1962. 
"Government 
publication." 
Availability of 
Government publi» 
cations through 
Superintendent of 
Documents. 
Public Law 87-579 
AN ACT 
To revise the laws relating to depository libraries. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall 
be known as the "Depository Library Act of 1962". 
The term "Government publication" as used in this Act and the 
amendments made by it means informational matter which is pub-
lished as an individual document at Government expense, or as re-
quired by law. 
Government publications, except those determined by their issuing 
components to be required for official use only or those required for 
strictly administrative or operational purposes which have no public 
interest or educational value and publications classified for reasons 
of national security, shall be made available to depository libraries 
through the facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public 
information. 
Each component of the Government shall furnish the 
Superintendent of Documents a list of publications, except those re-
quired for official use only or those required for strictly administrative 
or operational purposes which have no public interest or educational 
value and publications classified for reasons of national security, which 
it issued during the previous month that were obtained from sources 
other than the Government Printing Office. 
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353 
SEC. 2. That section 501 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (March 
1,1907, ch. 2284, sec. 4, 34 Stat. 1014; 44 U.S.C. 82), is hereby amended 
to read as follows: 
"SEC. 501. The Government publications, which may be selected 
Distribution of 
from lists prepared by the Superintendent of Documents and when nafia^dlpositofl 
requested from him, shall be distributed to depository libraries ies. 
specifically designated by law and to such libraries as have been 
or shall be designated by each of the Senators from the 'several States, 
by the Representatives in Congress from each congressional district 
and at large, by the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, by the 
Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and by the Gov-
ernors of Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, re-
spectively: Provided^ That (1) additional libraries within areas 
served by Representatives or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto 
Rico may be designated by them to receive Government publications 
to the extent that the total number of libraries designated by Repre-
sentatives or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, as the 
case may be, shall not exceed two within each area, and (2) additional 
libraries within any State may be designated by each of the Senators 
from such State to the extent that the libraries within such State 
designated by Senators shall not exceed two designated by a Senator 
of each class; however before any additional library within a State, 
congressional district or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be 
designated as a depository for Government publications, the head of 
that library shall furnish his Senator, Representative or the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico, as the case may be, with justifica-
tion of the necessity for the additional designation. This justification, 
which shall also include a certification as to the need for the additional 
depository library designation, shall be signed by the head of every 
existing depository library within the congressional district or the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or by the head of the library authority 
of the State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, within which 
the additional depository library is to be located. The justification 
for additional depository library designations shall be transmitted to 
the Superintendent of Documents by the Senator, Representative 
or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, as the case may be. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia may designate two deposi-
tory libraries in the District of Columbia, the Governor of Guam 
and the Governor of American Samoa may each designate one deposi-
tory library in Guam and American Samoa, respectively, and the 
Governor of the Virgin Islands may designate one depository library 
on the island of Saint Thomas and one on the island of Saint Croix." 
SEC. 3. That section 602 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (Janu- 
Designation of 
ary 12, 1895, ch. 23, sees. 53 and-61,.28 Stat. 608 and 610; 44 U.S.C. d«po»"orie8. 
83), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 602. The Superintendent of Documents shall currently issue a 
classified list of Government publications in suitable form, containing 
annotations of contents and listed by item identification numbers in 
such manner as to facilitate the selection of only those publications 
which may be needed by designated depository libraries. The selected 
publications shall be distributed to depository libraries in accordance 
with regulations issued by the Superintendent of Documents, so long 
as they fulfill the conditions provided by law." 
SEC. 4. TJiat section 5 af the Act of Jun^ 23,1913 (38 Stat. 75, ch. 3; 
44 U.S.C. 84), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. The designation of a library to replace any depository 
N
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w designa-
library, other than a depository library specifically designated by law, *^°"»* 
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[76 STAT. 
Ante, p. 353. 
Allotment of 
copies. 
Coneressional 
journals. 
Notice to Gov^ 
ernment agencies 
Cost of print-
ing and binding. 
Land-grant 
colleges^' 
Investigation 
of libraries. 
may be made only within the limitations on total numbers specified in 
section 501 of the Revised Statutes (44 U.S.C. 82), as amended, and 
only when the library to be replaced shall cease to exist, when the 
library voluntarily relinquishes its depository status, or when the 
Superintendent of Documents determines that it no longer fulfills the 
conditions provided by law for depository libraries." 
SEC. 5. That section 4 of the Act of March 1, 1907, as amended 
(34 Stat. 1014, ch. 2284, and 52 Stat. 1206, ch. 708; 44 U.S.C. 85), is 
liereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. Upon request of the Superintendent of Documents, the 
components of the Government which order the printing of publica-
tions shall either increase or decrease the number of copies of publi-
cations furnished for distribution to designated depository libraries 
and State libraries so that the number of copies delivered to the Super-
intendent of Documents shall be equal to the number of libraries on 
the list: Provided, That the number thus delivered shall not be 
restricted by any existing statutory limitation: Provided 
further. 
That such copies of publications which are furnished the Superin-
tendent of Documents for distribution to designated depositor}^ 
libraries shall include the journals of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives ; all publications, not confidential in character, printed upon 
the requisition of any congressional committee; all Senate and House 
public bills and resolutions; and all reports on private bills, concur-
rent or simple resolutions; but shall not include so-called cooperative 
publications which must necessarily be sold in order to be self-
sustaining. 
"The Superintendent of Documents shall currently inform the 
components of the Government which order the printing of publica-
tions as to the number of copies of their publications required for 
distribution to depository libraries. The cost of printing and binding 
those publications which are distributed to depository libraries, when 
obtained elsewhere than from the Government Printing Office, shall 
be borne by components of the Government responsible for their 
issuance; those requisitioned from the Government Printing Office 
shall be charged to appropriations provided the Superintendent of 
Documents for that purpose. 
"All land-grant colleges shall be constituted as depositories to re-
ceive Government publications subject to the provisions and limita-
tions of the depository laws." 
SEC. 6. That section 70 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 
612, ch, 23; 44 U.S.C. 86), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 70. Each library which may hereafter be designated by Sena-
tors, Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, 
the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or the 
(xovernors of Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands as a 
depository of Government publications shall be able to provide cus-
tody and service for depositor}^ materials and be located in an area 
where it can best serve the public need, and shall be located within an 
area not already adequately served by existing depository libraries. 
The Superintendent of Documents shall receive reports from desig-
nated depository libraries at least every two years concerning the 
condition of each and shall make firsthand investigation of conditions 
for which need is indicated; the results of such investigations shall 
be included in his annual report. 
Whenever he shall ascertain that 
the number of books in any such library is below ten thousand, other 
than Government publications, or it has ceased to be maintained so 
as to be accessible to the public, or that the Government publications 
which have been furnished the library have not been properly main-
tained, he shall delete the library from the list of depository libraries 
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355 
if the library fails to correct tlie unsatisfactory conditions within six 
months. The Representative or the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico in whose area the library is located (or (1) in the case 
of a library designated by a Senator, the Senator who made such 
designation or any successor of such Senator, (2) in the case of a 
library in the District of Columbia, the Board of Commissioners of 
the District of Columbia, and (3) in the case of a library in Guam, 
American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands, the Governor) shall be 
notified and shall then be authorized to designate another library 
within the area served by him, which shall meet the conditions herein 
required, but which shall not be in excess of the number of depository 
libraries authorized by law within the State, district, territory, or the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as the case may be." 
SEC. 7. That section 98 of the Act of January 12,1895 (28 Stat. 624, 
ch. 23; 44 U.S.C. 87), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 98. The libraries of the executive departments, of the United 
Libraries o
f 
States Military Academy, of the United States Naval Academy, of the * entsl^efcf'^^" 
United States Air Force Academy, of the United States Coast Guard 
Academy, and of the United States Merchant Marine Academy are 
constituted designated depositories of Government publications. 
A 
depository library within each independent agency may be designated 
upon certification of need by the head of the independent agency to the 
Superintendent of Documents. Additional depository libraries within 
executive departments and independent agencies may be designated 
to receive Government publications to the extent that the number so 
designated shall not exceed the number of major bureaus or divisions 
of such departments and independent agencies. These designations 
shall be made only after certification by the head of each executive de-
partment or independent agency to the Superintendent of Documents 
as to the justifiable need for additional depository libraries. Deposi-
tory libraries within executive departments and independent agencies 
are authorized to dispose of unwanted Government publications after 
first offering them to the Library of Congress and the National 
Archives." 
SEC. 8. That section 74 of the Act of January 12,1895, as amended 
Government pub-
(28 Stat. 620, ch. 23; and sec. 11, 49 Stat. 1552, ch. 630; 44 U.S.C. 92), ";/*^°"^ Tree "us"!' 
is hereby amended to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 74. All Government publications of a permanent nature which 
are furnished by authority of law to officers (except Members of 
Congress) of the United States Government, for their-official use, 
shall be stamped 'Property of the U^nited States Government', and 
shall be preserved by such officers and by then; delivered to their 
successors in office as a part of the property appertaining to the office. 
Government publications which are furnished to depository libraries 
' 
shall be made available for the free use of the general public, and 
may be disposed of by depository libraries after retention for a mini-
mum period of five years, and in accordance with the provisions of 
section 9 of the Depository Library Act of 1962, if the depository 
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library is served by a regional depository library. 
When the 
depository libraries are not served by a regional depository library, 
or if they are regional depository libraries themselves, the Govern-
ment publications, except superseded publications or those issued later 
in bound form which may be discarded as authorized by the Superin-
tendent of Documents, shall be retained permanently in either printed 
form or in microfacsimile form." 
SEC. 9. Not to exceed two depository libraries in each State and 
Regional depos-
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may be designated as herein pro- "°'^**' 
vided to be regional depositories, and as such shall receive from the 
Superintendent of Documents copies of all new and revised Govern-
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[76 STAT. 
Disposition of 
publications after 
five years. 
44 use 4. 
Repeal. 
ment publications authorized for distribution to depository libraries. 
Designation of regional depository libraries may be made by a Senator 
or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico within the areas 
served by them, after approval by the head of the library authority 
of the State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as the case may be, 
who shall first ascertain from the head of the library to be so desig-
nated that the library will, in addition to fulfilling the requirements 
for depository libraries, retain at least one copy of all Government 
publications, either in printed or microfacsimile form (except those 
authorized to be discarded by the Superintendent of Documents) ; and 
within the region served will provide interlibrary loan, reference 
service, and assistance for depository libraries in the disposal of un-
wanted Government publications as herein provided. The agreement 
to function as a regional depository library shall be transmitted to the 
Superintendent of Documents by the Senator or the Resident Com-
missioner from Puerto Rico when designation is made. 
The libraries designated as regional depositories shall be authorized 
to permit depository libraries, within the areas served by them, to dis-
pose of Government publications which they have retained for at least 
five years after first offering them to other depository libraries within 
their area, then to other libraries, and then if not wanted to discard. 
SEC. 10. The Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Com-
mittee on Printing, as provided for by section 2 of the Printing Act of 
1895 (ch. 23, sec. 2, 28 Stat. 601), as amended, shall adopt and employ 
such measures as he deems necessary for the economical and practical 
implementation of this Act. 
SEC. 11. The Act entitled "An Act to make the United States C^oast 
Guard Academy library a public depository for Government publica-
tions", approved August 5, 1939 (53 Stat. 1209; 44 U.S.C. 87a), is 
hereby repealed. 
Approved August 9, 1962. 
August 9,1962 
[H. R. 7336] 
Public Law 87-580 
AN ACT 
To promote the production of oysters by propagation of disease-resistant strains, 
and for otlier purposes. 
Oysters. 
Disease-resist-
ant strains, propa-
gation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States.of America in Congress assembled^ The Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized with respect to those States where he finds that 
excessive mortality of oysters presents an immediate and substantial 
threat to the economic stability of the oyster industry in such area or 
region, to acquire oyster brood stock that he believes possesses resist-
ance to the causative agent of such excessive mortality. 
The Secretary 
may thereafter transfer such brood stock to the particular States in-
volved for planting in spawning sanctuaries and protection of such 
State or States. 
Distribution of the resultant seed oysters by the 
States shall be in accordance with plans and procedures that are mu-
tually acceptable to the Secretary and the cooperating States: Pro-
vided, That the purchase of oyster brood stock hereunder by the Secre-
tary shall be conditional upon the participating State or States, in each 
instance, paying one-third of the cost of such brood stock. 
The Secre-
tary of the Interior is authorized to cooperate with the States in any 
manner necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. 
Grants to States 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to jnake grants to 
the States referred to in the first section of this Act for the purpose of 
assisting such States in the financing of research and other activities 
for research, etc.