An Act to authorize a five-year hydrologic study and investigation of the Delmarva Peninsula
PL 89-618 (S.2287), enacted 10/04/1966

870 
October 4,196f 
[S.2287] 
[80 STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 89-618-OCT. 4, 1966 
Public Law 89-618 
AN ACT 
To authorize a five-year hydrologic study and investigation of the Delmarva 
Peninsula. 
Delmarva 
Peninsula. 
Hydrologic 
study. 
Duties of Secre-
tary. 
Reports to Presi-
dent iand Congress. 
Information from 
Federal agencies. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") is author-
ized and directed to make a comprehensive study and investigation of 
the water resources of the Delmarva Peninsula with a view to deter-
mining the availability of fresh w^ater supplies needed to meet the 
anticipated future water requirements of the Delmarva Peninsula area, 
and with a view to determining the most effective means from the 
standpoint of hydrologic feasibility of protecting and developing fresh 
water sources so as to insure, insofar as practicable, the availability of 
adequate water supplies in the future. In carrying out such study and 
investigation with respect to the Delmarva Peninsula, the Secretary 
shall— 
(1) appraise the water use, requirements, and trends, and deter-
mine the availability of water in the streams and underground 
sources for the entire peninsula; 
(2) determine the depths, thicknesses, and permeabilities, the 
perennial yield, and the recharge characteristics of major aquifers, 
and the quality characteristics to be expected from each such 
major aquifer; 
(3) determine with respect to ground water resources the con-
tinuity and extent of important water-bearing formations; 
(4) determine the yield from stream systems under natural flow-
conditions and under varying degrees of storage and the amounts 
and quality of waters available from such systems during drought, 
flood, and intermediate conditions; 
(5) determine whether sea water has moved inland into heavily 
pumped coastal aquifers; 
(6) give special consideration to conditions which may invite 
the invasion of sea water into fresh-water supplies; 
(7) compile and make available to appropriate State and local 
officials any results of this study and investigation that would be 
appropriate for their use in long-range planning, development, 
and management of water supplies; 
(8) cooperate with State and local agencies for the purpose 
of using any information and data available to carry out the pur-
poses of this study; and 
(9) consider such other matters as the Secretary may deem 
appropriate to the study and investigation herein authorized. 
SEC. 2. During the course of the study and investigation authorized 
hy this Act, the Secretary may submit to the President for transmis-
sion to the Congress such interim reports as the Secretary may con-
sider desirable. 
Tlie Secretary shall submit a final report to the 
President for transmission to the Congress not more than six years 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to secure directly from any exec-
utive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independ-
ent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, 
information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of 
this Act, and each department, bureau, agency, board, commission, 
office, independent establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and 
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directed to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and 
statistics, to the Secretary upon his or his designee's request. 
SEC. 4. In carrying out the study and investigation authorized by this 
cooperation with 
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Act, the Secretary is authorized to cooperate with other Federal, State, 
and local agencies now engaged in comprehensive planning for water 
resource use and development in the Delmarva Peninsula area by 
making available to those agencies his findings and to cooperate with 
those agencies in the Northeastern United States Water Supply Study 
as authorized by the Act of October 27, 1965 (79 Stat. 1073). 
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SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of Appropriation. 
$500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act: Provided^ That noth-
ing in this Act shall prevent the expenditure of other funds appropri-
ated to the Geological Survey for studies and activities performed 
under its general authority. 
Approved October 4, 1966. 
Public Law 89-619 
AN ACT 
October 4, 1966 
To amend the Trading With the Enemy Act to provide for the transfer of three 
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paintings to the Federal Republic of Genuany in trust for the Weimar 
Museum. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 39 of the 
German paint-
Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended (62 Stat. 1246; 50 U.S.C. '" Transfer to 
App., sec. 39), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following Federal Repub-
SubseCtion : 
"'^ °^ Germany. 
"(e) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of subsections (a) 
through (d) of this section, the Attorney General is hereby authorized 
to transfer the three paintings vested under Vesting Order Numbered 
8107, dated January 28,1947, to the Federal Republic of Germany, to 
be held in trust for eventual transfer to the Weimar Museum, Weimar, 
State of Thuringia, Germany, in accord with the terms of an agree-
ment to be made between the United States and the Federal Republic 
of Germany." 
Approved .October 4, 1966. 
Public Law 89-620 
AN ACT 
October 4, 1966 
To authorize the Secretary qf Agriculture to convey certain lands and improve- 
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ments thereon to the University of Alaska. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwith- 
Alaska Agricui-
standing any other provisions of law, the Secretary of Agriculture strtion?^^"""^"* 
is authorized to determine and to convey by quitclaim deed and with- 
conveyance. 
out consideration to the University of Alaska for public purposes all 
the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands of 
the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station, including improvements 
thereon, and such personal property as may be designated, located at 
Palmer and Matanuska, Alaska. 
Approved October 4, 1966.