An Act for improvement of Gowanus Creek Channel, New York.
PL 82-551 (H.R.7855), enacted 07/16/1952

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correctness of the amount due and paid to such person or persons 
shall have the same finality as that accorded decisions made pursuant 
to subsection (b). 
The provisions of this subsection shall not apply 
where a legal guardian or committee has been judicially appointed, 
except as to any payments made hereunder prior to the receipt of notice 
of appointment. 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 506. As used in this title— 
(a) The term "spouse" means a lawful wife or husband. 
(b) The term "child" includes (1) a legitimate child; (2) a child 
legally adopted; and (3) a stepchild, if, at the time of death of the 
member of the Armed Forces, such stepchild was a member of the 
deceased's household. 
(c) The term "parent" includes father and mother, stepfather and 
stepmother, and father and mother through adoption. 
(d) The term "Armed Forces" means the Army, the Navy, the Air 
Force, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard of the United States. 
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS 
JOB COUNSELING AND EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT 
SEC. 601. Section 607 of title IV, Servicemen's Readjustment Act 
of 1944, as amended (38 U. S. C. 695f), is hereby amended to read as 
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follows: 
"SEC. 607. The term 'veteran' as used in this title shall mean a per-
son who served in the active service of the Armed Forces during a 
period of war in which the United States has been, or is, engaged, 
or during the period on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date 
as may be thereafter determined by Presidential proclamation or 
concurrent resolution of the Congress, and who has been discharged or 
released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable." 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 602. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this Act. 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
Public Law 551 
CHAPTER 876 
AN ACT 
July 16, 1952 
For improvement of Gowanus Creek Channel, New York. 
[H. R. 7855] 
Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
improvement is hereby adopted and authorized in the interest of 
national security, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance 
with the plans recommended in the report hereinafter designated: 
Gowanus Creek Channel, New York, in accordance with the report 
submitted in House Document Numbered 318, Eighty-second Congress, 
and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
Gowanus C r e e k 
Channel, N. Y. 
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PUBLIC LAW 552--JULY 16, 1952 
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Public Law 552 
CHAPTER 877 
July 16, 1952 
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To amend Public Law 49, Seventy-seventh Congress, so as to provide for the 
prevention of major disasters in coal mines. 
F e d e r a l Coal 
Mine Safety Act 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
amendment. 
'^A.!! Act relating to Certain inspections and investigations in coal 
mines for the purpose of obtaining information relating to health and 
safety conditions, accidents, and occupational diseases therein, and 
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for other purposes", approved May 7, 1941, is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following new title: 
. 
"TITLE II—PREVENTION OF MAJOR DISASTERS IN 
MINES 
"DEFINITIONS AND EXEMPTION 
"SEC. 201. (a) For the purposes of this title— 
"(1) The term 'Board' means the Federal Coal Mine Safety Board 
of Review created by section 205. 
"(2) The term'Bureau'means the Bureau of Mines. 
"(3) The term 'certified person', when used to designate the kind 
of person to whom the performance of a duty in connection with the 
operation of a mine shall be assigned, means a person who is qualified 
under the laws of the State in which such mine is located to perform 
such duty, except that in a State the laws of which do not provide for 
such qualification, the term means a person deemed by the operator 
of such mine to be qualified to perform such duty. 
"(4) The term'commerce'means trade, traffic, commerce, transpor-
tation, or communications between any State, Territory, possession, or 
the District of Columbia and any other State, Territory, or possession, 
of the United States, or between any State, Territory, possession, or 
the District of Columbia and any foreign country, or wholly within 
any Territory, possession, or through any other State or through any 
Territory, possession, or the District of Columbia or through any 
foreign country. 
" (5) The term 'Director' means the Director of the Bureau of Mines. 
"(6) The term 'duly authorized representative of the Bureau' means 
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a person appointed under section 109 of title I or under section 212 
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^^ ^j^-g j.j|.|g^ j^j^(j authorized in writing by the Director to perform the 
duties of a duly authorized representative of the Bureau as provided 
in sections 202, 203, and 206 of this title. 
"(7) The term 'mine' means an area of land including everything 
annexed to it by nature and all structures, machinery, tools, equipment 
and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under or above its 
surface by man, used in the work of extracting bituminous coal, lig-
nite or anthracite, from its natural deposits in the earth in such area 
and in the work of processing the coal so extracted. The term 'mine' 
does not include any strip mine. The term 'work of processing the 
coal' as used in this paragraph means the sizing, cleaning, drying, 
mixing and crushing of bituminous coal, lignite or anthracite, and such 
other work of processing such coal as is usually done by the operator, 
and does not mean crushing, coking, or distillation of such coal or 
such other work of processing such coal as is usually done by a con-
sumer or others in connection with the utilization of such coal. 
" (8) The term 'operator' means the person, partnership, association 
or corporation operating a mine and owning the right to do so.