An Act to provide for the preservation of historical and archeological data (including relics and specimens) which might otherwise be lost as the result of the construction of a dam.
PL 86-523 (S.1185), enacted 06/27/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86.523-JUNE 27, 1960 
[74 ST A T . 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 1185] 
H i s t or leal and 
arc h e o l o g l e a l 
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49 Stat. 666. 
Dam c o n st rue-
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Advance notice. 
Survey. 
Public Law 86-523 
AN ACT 
To provide for the preservation of historical and aroheologlcal data (Including 
relics and specimens) which might otherwise be lost as the result of the 
construction of a dam. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembted, That it is the purpose 
of this Act to further the policy set forth in the Act entitled "An Act 
to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, 
objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other pur-
poses", approved August 21,1935 (16 U.S.C. 461-467), by specifically 
providing for the preservation of historical and archeological data 
(including relics and specimens) which might otherwise be irreparably 
lost or destroyed as the result of flooding, the building of access roads, 
the erection of workmen's communities, the relocation of railroads and 
highways, and other alterations of the terrain caused bv the construc-
tion of a dam by any agency of the United States, or oy any private 
person or corporation holding a license issued by any such agency. 
SEC. 2. (a) Before any agency of the United States shall undertake 
the construction of a dam, or issue a license to any private individual 
or corporation for the construction of a dam, it shall give written 
notice to the Secretary of the Interior setting forth the site of the 
proposed dam and the approximate area to be flooded and otherwise 
changed if such construction is undertaken: Provided, 
That with 
I'espect to any floodwater retarding dam which provides less than 
five thousand acre-feet of detention capacity and with respect to any 
other type of dam which creates a reservoir of less than forty surface 
acres the provisions of this section shall apply only when the con-
structing agency, in its preliminary surveys, finds, or is presented with 
evidence that historical or archeological materials exist or may be 
present in the proposed reservoir area. 
(b) Upon receipt of any notice, as provided in subsection (a), the 
Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), 
shall cause a survey to be made of the area proposed to be flooded to 
ascertain whether such area contains historical and archeological data 
(including relics and specimens) which should be preserved in the 
public interest. 
Any such survey shall be conducted as expeditiously 
as possible. If, as a result of any such survey, the Secretary shall 
determine (1) that such data exists in such area, (2) that such data has 
exceptional historical or archeological significance, and should be col-
lected and preserved in the public interest, and (3) that it is feasible 
to collect and preserve such data, he shall cause the necessary work to 
be performed m such area to collect and preserve such data. 
All such 
work shall be performed as expeditiously as possible. 
(c) The Secretary shall keep the instigating agency notified at all 
times of the progress of any survey made under this Act, or of any 
work undertaken as a result of such survey, in order that there will 
be as little disruption or delay as possible in the carrying out of the 
functions of such agency. 
(d) A survey similar to that provided for by section (b) of this 
section and the work required to be performed as a result thereof shall 
so far as practicable also be undertaken in connection with any dam 
the construction of which has been heretofore authorized by any 
agency of the United States, or by any private person or corporation 
holding a license issued by any such agency. 
(e) The Secretary shall consult with any interested Federal and 
State agencies, educational and scientific organizations, and private 
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institutions and qualified individuals, with a view to determining 
the ownership of and the most appropriate repository for any relics 
and specimens recovered as a result of any work performed as provided 
for in this section. 
SEC. 3. In the administration of this Act, the Secretary may— 
(1) enter into contracts or make cooperative agreements with 
any Federal or State agency, any educational or scientific organ-
ization, or any institution, corporation, association, or qualified 
individual; and 
(2) procure the temporary or intermittent services of experts 
or consultants or organizations thereof as provided in section 15 
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); and 
(3) accept and utilize funds made available for salvage archeo-
logical purposes by any private person or corporations holding a 
license issued by an agency of the United States for the con-
struction of a dam or other type of water or power control project. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
Administiration. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Publir Law 86-524 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the better registration of 
births in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes". 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 2327] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Arnerica in Congress assembled^ That the last para-
graph of subsection (a) of the first section of the Act entitled "An 
Act to provide for the better registration of births in the District 
of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved March 1, 1907 (34 
Stat. 1010; sec. 6-301, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), as amended, is 
amended to read as follows: 
"Upon receipt of any report aforesaid, the Director of Public Health 
shall forward to the father of the child, or, if his address be unknown, 
to the mother, an acknowledgment of the receipt of such report, and 
if the infant delivered be not stillborn, and such report does not con-
tain the given name of the child born, a blank form on which the father 
or mother may certify over his or her signature the name of such child, 
which form, if thus executed and returned to said Director, shall be 
a part of the official record of such birth. 
In those cases in which no 
given name of a child has been certified to said Director, and a certifi-
cate cannot be executed by a parent because both parents are deceased, 
unknown, or physically or mentally incapacitated, the Director is 
authorized to accept and make a part of the official record of the birth 
of such child a certificate made in accordance with such rules and 
regulations as may bs promulgated by the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, who are hereby authorized to make rules and regu-
lations governing the certification of the given name of a child where 
the birth record pertaining to such child does not include such given 
name." 
SEC. 2. The first section of said Act approved March 1, 1907, as 
amended, is amended by adding the following subsection: 
"(c) Wherever in this Act the terms 'health officer', 'Director of 
Public Health', or 'Director' are used, such terms shall mean the 
Director of the Department of Public Health of the District of 
Columbia established by the Commissioners of the District of Colum-
bia pursuant to the authority contained in Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824)." 
D. C. 
port s. 
70 Stat. 
D. C, 
Supp. VII, 
Certific 
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