A bill to designate certain lands in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Ga., as wilderness.
PL 93-429 (H.R.6395), enacted 10/01/1974

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the Secretary is empowered to administer oaths and affirmations, 
subpena witnesses, compel their attendance, take evidence, and require 
the production of any books, papere, and documents which are relevant 
to the inquiry. Such attendance of witnesses and the production of any 
such records may be required from any place in the United States. 
In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena to, any person, 
including an egg producer, the Secretary may invoke the aid of any 
court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inves-
tigation or proceeding is carried on, or where such person resides or 
carries on business, in requiring the attendance and testimony of wit-
nesses and the production of books, papers, and documents; and such 
court may issue an order requiring such person to appear before the 
Secretary, there to produce records, if so ordered, or to give testimony 
touching the matter under investigation. Any failure to obey such 
order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt tliereof. 
All process in any such case may be served in the judicial district 
whereof such person is an inhabitant or wherever he may be found. 
SEPARABILITY 
SEC. 19. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to 
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any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the 
remainder of the Act and of the application of such provision to other 
persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
AUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 20. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any 
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money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated such funds as are 
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. The funds so appro- 
^Expense pay-
priated shall not be available for payment of the expenses or expendi- Board, prowbi-
tures of the Egg Board in administering any provisions of any order ti°"-
issued pursuant to the terms of this Act. 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 21. This Act shall take effect upon enactment. 
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Approved October 1, 1974. 
Public Law 93-429 
AN ACT 
October 1,1974 
To designate certain lands in tlie Oliefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. 
[H. R. 6395] 
as wilderness. 
Okefenokee 
Wilderness, Ga. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amei'ica in Congress assembled, That, in accordance 
with section 3(c) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890, 892), certain 
DeVignaUon 
lands in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, which 
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comprise about three hundred forty-three thousand eight hundr-ed 
and fifty acres and which are depicted on a map entitled "Okefenokee 
Wildei-ness Proposal" dated October 1967, revised March 1971, are 
hereby designated as wilderness. The map shall be on file and avail-
able for public inspection in the offices of United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior. 
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Watercraft, re-
strictions. 
Fishing rights. 
Map and de-
scription, filing 
with congres-
sional commit-
tees. 
Administration. 
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note. 
SEC. 2. Within tlie wilderness designated by this Act, snbject to 
such restrictions as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for 
public safety and to protect flora and fauna of the wilderness, (1) the 
use of powered watercraft, propelled by motors of ten or less horse-
power, will be permitted, (2) watercraft trails including approxi-
mately one hundred twenty miles as delineated on such map will be 
maintained. Access to watercraft trails in the wilderness area will 
be provided from the Suwannee River Sill, Steven Foster State Park, 
Kings Landing, and Suwannee Recreation Area (Camp Cornelia). 
SEC. 8. Fishing shall be permitted in the waters of the Okefenokee 
Wilderness, in accordance with applicable State and Federal regu-
lations, except that the Secretary of the Interior may designate zones 
and establish periods when no fishing shall be permitted for reasons 
of public safety, administration, fish and wildlife management, or 
public use and enjoyment. 
SEC. 4. As soon as practicable after the Act takes effect, a map and a 
legal description of the wilderness area shall be filed with the Interior 
and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the 
House of Representatives, and such description and map shall have the 
same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided., hoioever., 
That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such descrip-
tion and map may be made. 
SEC. 5. The area designated by this Act as wilderness shall be known 
as the Okefenokee Wilderness and shall be administered by the Secre-
tary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Wilder-
ness Act. 
Approved October 1, 1974. 
October 1,1974 
[H.R. 13595] 
Public Law 93-430 
AN ACT 
To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for the procurement of vessels 
and aircraft and construction of shore and offshore establishments, to author-
ize appropriations for bridge alterations, to authorize for the Coast Guard 
an end-year strength for active duty personnel, to authorize for the Coast 
Guard average military student loads, and for other i)urposes. 
U.S. Coast 
Guard. 
Appropriation 
authorization; 
personnel 
strength. 
Fishing ves-
sels, exemption 
from certain laws. 
Be it enacted hy the /Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That funds are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 for the use 
of the Coast Guard as follows: 
VESSELS 
i -:!,. 
For procurement, innovation, and increasing the capability of 
vessels, $22,676,000. 
A. Procurement: 
(1) One 
one-hundred-and-sixty-foot 
inland 
construction 
tender; 
(2) small boat replacement program; and 
{?)) design of vessels. 
I^. Renovation and increasing capability : 
(1) renovate and impi'ove buoy tenders; 
(2) re-engine and renovate coastal buoy tenders; 
{?>) modernize and improve cutter, buoy tender, and icebreaker 
communications equipment; 
(4) abate pollution by oily waste from Coast Guard vessels; 
and 
(5) abate pollution by nonoily waste from Coast Guard vessels.