An Act to assist the States to provide additional facilities for research at the State agricultural experiment stations
PL 88-74 (H.R.40), enacted 07/22/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-74-JULY 22, 1963 
[77 STAT. 
Rights-of-way. 
(including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable 
only b^ special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried), oil, 
gas, oil shale, phosphate, sodium, and potassium, together with the 
right of the TTnited States, its lessees, permittees, or licensees to 
prospect for, mine, and remove them under applicable provisions of 
law. 
SEC. 8. With respect to the conveyance of any land under this Act, 
which land is, at the time of issuance of patent therefor, subject to a 
mineral lease, permit, or license, for which mineral the land is deemed 
at that time by the Secretary of the Interior to be not valuable or 
prospectively valuable, the patent shall not convey such mineral rights 
m such lands until the mineral lease, permit, or license, or any exten-
sions or renewals thereof, shall terminate or be relinquished, but upon 
such termination or relinquishment all the right, title, and interest of 
the United States to such mineral deposits shall automatically vest in 
the patentee. 
SEC. 9. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the 
contrary, the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the 
city of Henderson, may, prior to the transfer of title to the city of 
Henderson, grant rights-of-way in, over, upon, through, or under any 
of the lands described in section 2 of this Act. 
Approved July 22, 1963. 
July 22, 1963 
[H. R. 40] 
Public Law 88-74 
AN ACT 
T(» assist the States to provide additional facilities for research at the State 
agricultural experiment stations. 
Agricultural ex-
periment stations. 
Research facil-
ities. 
Definitions. 
12 Stat. 503. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of RepresentativeH of the 
United States of America in Congress assernhled, That it is hereby 
declared to be the policy of the Congress to continue its support of 
agricultural research at the State agricultural experiment stations 
through Federal-grant funds, on a matching basis, to help finance 
physical facilities as required for the effective conduct of an adequate 
research program. 
SEC. 2. The purpose of this Act is to assist the State agricultural 
experiment stations in the construction, acquisition, and remodeling 
of buildings, laboratories, and other capital facilities (including the 
acquisition of jfixtures and equipment which are to become a part of 
such buildings) w^hich are necessary to more eft'ectively conduct 
reseai'ch in agriculture and sciences related thereto through means of 
grants from the Federal Government. 
SEC. 3. As used in sections 2 to 11, inclusive, of this Act— 
(1) the term "State" shall include Puerto Rico; 
(2) the term "State agricultural experiment station" means a 
department established under the direction of a college or univer-
sity in any State in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act 
donating public lands to the several States and Territories which 
may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic 
arts", approved July 2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301) ; or a department 
otherwise established pursuant to standards prescribed by the 
State the purpose of which is to conduct agricultural research; 
and 
(3) the term "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of Agri-
culture. 
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SEC. 4. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for allo-
cation to the States for the purposes of section 2 such sums as the 
Congress deems advisable. 
(b) (1) One-third of the funds appropriated pursuant to this sec-
tion for any fiscal year shall be allotted equally among the States. 
(2) Two-thirds of the funds appropriated pursuant to this section 
for any fiscal year shall be allocated among the States as follows: One-
half in an amount w^hich bears the same ratio to the total amount to be 
allotted as the rural population of the State bears to the total rural 
population of all the States as determined by the last preceding 
decennial census current at the time each such sum is first appropri-
ated; and one-half in an amount which bears the same ratio to the 
total amount to be allotted as the farm population of the State bears 
to the total farm population of all the States as determined by the last 
preceding decennial census current at the time such sum is first 
appropriated. 
(c) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Secretary to 
administer the provisions of section 4 of this Act under such rules and 
regulations as he may prescribe as necessary therefor. 
SEC. 5. Any State in order to be eligible for payments from funds 
allocated pursuant to section 4 shall submit, in such form as the Secre-
tary may require, specific proposals for acquisition or construction of 
physical facilities defined in section 2 of this Act. 
No State shall 
receive any payment for any such proposal unless such proposal is 
approved by the Secretary. 
SEC. 6. (a)No payment shall be made to any State under the pro-
visions of section 4 of this Act in any amount greater than the amount 
made a^•ai]able by such State from non-Federal funds for purposes 
for which payments are made under section 4 of this Act. 
(b) Any unused portion of the allotment of any State for any fiscal 
year shall remain available, at the option of such State, for payment 
to such State for a period of not more than two fiscal years following 
the fiscal year in which such allotment is first made available. 
SEC. 7. With respect to multiple-purpose physical facilities, the 
segment or portion thereof which is to be utilized for agricultural 
research shall be tlie basis for determination of fund support under 
this Act. 
SEC. 8. For each fiscal year that funds are made available for allo-
cation to States under the provisions of section 4 and section B of this 
Act, the Secretary shall fiscertain, at the earliest practicable date dur-
ing such year, the amount of the allocation to which each State is 
entitled, and shall notify each State in writing promptly thereafter 
as to the amount of such allocation. 
SEC. 9. (a) Any State agricultural experiment station authorized 
to receive payments under the provisions of section 4 of this Act shall 
have a chief administrative officer, to be known as a director, and a 
treasurer or other officer appointed by the governing board of such 
station. Such treasurer or other officer shall receive and account for 
all funds paid to such station pursuant to the provisions of this Act, 
and shall submit a report, approved by the director of such station, 
to the Secretary on or before the first day of September of each year. 
Such report shall contain a detailed statement of the amount received 
under the provisions of this Act during the preceding fiscal year, and 
of its disbursements on schedules prescribed by the Secretary. 
(b) If any portion of the allotted funds received by the authorized 
receiving officer of any State agricultural experiment station shall by 
any action or contingency be diminished, lost, or misapplied, it shall 
be repaid by the State concerned, and until repaid no part of any 
subsequent appropriation shall be allocated or paid to such State. 
Allocation of 
funds. 
Eligibility. 
Matching funds. 
Multiple-pur-
pose facilities. 
Notification 
to States. 
Administrative 
officer, duties. 
Report to Secre-
tary. 
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[77 STAT. 
Report to 
Congress. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
SEC. 10. The Secretary shall make an annual report fo The Congress 
during the first regular session of each year with respect to (1) pay-
ments made under this Act, (2) the facilities, by States, for which such 
payments were made, and (3) whether any portion of the appro-
priation available for allotment to any State has been withheld and, 
if so, the reasons therefor. 
SEC. 11. (a) Any agricultural experiment station established by 
State law shall be eligible for benefits under this Act. 
(b) With respect to any State in which more than one agricultural 
experiment station has been established, any appropriations allocated 
for the use of such State pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall 
be divided between or among such institutions as the legislature of 
such State shall direct. 
SEC. 12. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary for proper administration of this Act. 
Approved July 22, 1963. 
July 25, 1963 
[H. R. 3845] 
Public Law 88-75 
AN ACT 
To amend the Lead-Zinc Small Producers Stabilization Act of October 3, 1961 
(75 Stat. 766). 
Lead and zinc. 
"Principal prod-
uct or products.** 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 6(a) 
of the Lead-Zinc Small Producers Stabilization Act of October 3,1961 
(75 Stat. 766, 768; 30 U.S.C. 686), is amended by (a) adding the fol-
lowing before the period at the end of clause (2): '•'•Provided, That 
the principal product or products of such producer is either lead or 
zinc or a combination of lead and zinc"; and (b) adding the following 
clause: "(6) The term 'principal product or products' means that the 
dollar value of lead or zinc sold or the combination of lead and zinc 
sold must have been 50 per centum or more of the total dollar value of 
all minerals and metals contained in the ores and concentrates pro-
duced and sold by the small domestic producer, calculated on the basis 
of the product of the total metal and mineral content of the ores and 
concentrates sold, as determined from the settlement assays, and the 
quoted market prices of those metals or minerals at the time of the 
sale." 
Approved July 25, 1963. 
July 25. 1963 
[S. 5821 
Public Law 88-76 
AN ACT 
To extend for two years the definition of "peanuts" which is now in effect under 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of lOiSS, as amended. 
Peanuts. 
Definition ex-
tended. 
71 Stat. 344! 
75 Stat. 512. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate amd House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last para-
graph of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the peanut marketing 
quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, and for other purposes", approved August 13, 1957, as 
amended (7 U.S.C. 1359 note), is amended by striking out "and 1963" 
and inserting in lieu thereof "1963,1964, and 1965". 
Approved July 25, 1963.