An Act to encourage and stimulate the production and conservation of coal in the United States through research and development by authorizing the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Mines, to contract for coal research, and for other purpose
PL 86-599 (H.R.3375), enacted 07/07/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-599-JULY 7, 1960 
[74 S T A T 
July 7, 1960 
[H. R. 3375] 
Public Law 86-599 
AN ACT 
To encourage and stimulate the production and conservation of coal in the 
United States through research and development by authorizing the Secretary 
of the Interior to contract for coal research, and for other purposes. 
Coal. 
Office 
of Coal 
Research, e s t a b -
lishment. 
Advisory 
mit t e e s, 
dures. 
c o m-
proce-
Compensation. 
60 Stat. 808, 
Coal Research, 
Director. 
5 use 1071 note. 
70 Stat. 739. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in 
this Act— 
(a) The term "Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior. 
(b) The term "research" means scientific, technical, and economic 
research and the practical application of that research. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary shall establish within the Department of the 
Interior an Office of Coal Research, and through such Office shall— 
(1) develop through research, new and more efficient methods 
of mining, preparing, and utilizing coal; 
(2) contract for, sponsor, cosponsor, and promote the coordi-
nation of, research with recognized interested groups, including 
but not limited to, coal trade associations, coal research associa-
tions, educational institutions, and agencies of States and political 
subdivisions of States; 
(3) establish technical advisory committees composed of recog-
nized experts in various aspects of coal research to assist in the 
examination and evaluation of research progress and of all 
research proposals and contracts and to insure the avoidance of 
duplication of research; and 
(4) cooperate to the fullest extent possible with other depart-
ments, agencies, and independent establishments of the Federal 
Government and with State governments, and with all other 
interested agencies, governmental and nongovernmental. 
SEC. 3. (a) Any advisory committee appointed under the provisions 
of this Act shall keep minutes of each meeting, which shall contain as 
a minimum (1) the name of each person attending such meeting, 
(2) a copy of the agenda, and (3) a record of all votes or polls taken 
during the meeting. 
(b) A copy of any such minutes or of any report made by any such 
committee after final action has been taken thereon by the Secretary 
shall be available to the public upon request and payment of the cost 
of furnishing such copy. 
(c) Members of any advigory committee appointed from private life 
under authority of this section shall each receive $50 per diem w^hen 
engaged in the actual performance of their duties as a member of 
such advisory committee. 
Such members shall also be entitled to 
travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rates author-
ized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
73b-2) for all persons employed intermittently as consultants or ex-
perts receiving compensation on a per diem basis. 
(d) Service by an individual as a member of such an advisory 
committee shall not subject him to the provisions of section 1914 of 
title 18 of the United States Code, or, except with respect to a particu-
lar matter which directly involves the Office of Coal Research or in 
which the Office of Coal Research is directly interested, to the pro-
visions of sections 281, 283, or 284 of that title or of section 190 of the 
Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99). 
SEC. 4. The Secretary may appoint a Director of Coal Research 
without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, or the Clas-
sification Act of 1949, as amended. 
Section 107(a) of the Federal 
Executive Pay Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2206(a)), which prescribes 
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an annual rate of basic compensation of $17,500 for certain positions, 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: 
"(23) Director of Coal Research, Department of the Interior". 
SEO. 5. Research authorized by this Act may be conducted wherever 
suitable personnel and facilities are available. 
SEC. 6. No research shall be carried out, contracted for, sponsored, 
cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, unless all in-
formation, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments 
resulting from such research will (with such exceptions and limita-
tions, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest 
of national defense) be available to the general public. Whenever in 
the estimation of the Secretary the purposes of this Act would be 
furthered through the use of patented processes or equipment, the 
Secretary is authorized to enter into such agreements as he deems 
necessary for the acquisition or use of such patents on reasonable terms 
and conditions. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary shall submit to the President and the Con-
gress, on or before February 15 of each year, beginning with the year 
1961, a comprehensive report concerning activities under the authority 
of this Act, including information on all research projects conducted, 
sponsored, or cosponsored under the authority of this Act during the 
preceding year. 
SEC. 8. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of 
any money m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain 
available until expended, not to exceed $2,000,000 to be used to carry 
out the purposes of this Act for the fiscal year beginning July 1,1960. 
(b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal 
year beginning after June 30, 1961, such sums as may be necessary to 
carry out the purposes of this Act. 
(c) Sums appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act shall 
remain available until expended. 
Approved July 7, 1960. 
Report to Presi-
dent and Congress. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 86-600 
AN ACT 
To provide for the presentation of a medal to persons wlio have served as 
members of a United States expedition to Antarctica. 
July 7, I960 
[H. R. 3923] 
Be it exacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Am,e7ica in Congress assembled, That each person 
who serves, or has served, as a member of a United States expedition 
to Antarctica between January 1, 1946, and a date to be subsequently 
established by the Secretary of Defense shall be presented a medal 
iv^ith accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, under regulations to 
be prescribed by the Secretary of the Military Departments under 
whose cognizance the expedition falls, such regulations to be subject 
to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. 
The regulations may 
include provisions for award to civilian as well as uniformed mem-
bers and for posthumous awards. 
Members of the Armed Forces of the United States who are 
presented the medal referred to in the first section of this Act may 
wear such medal and the ribbon symbolic of such medal in such man-
ner as shall be prescribed by regulations approved by the Secretary of 
Defense. 
Approved July 7, 1960. 
Antarctic expedi-
tion. 
Medals for mem-
bers. 
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