An Act to provide for the establishment of the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Fairfax County, Va., and for other purposes.
PL 89-671 (S.3423), enacted 10/15/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-671-OCT. 15, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
(2) If before the date on which this Act takes effect, any depart-
ment or agency, or officer thereof in his official capacity, is a party to 
a suit, and under this Act— 
(A) such department or agency is transferred to the Secretary, 
or 
(B) any function of such department, agency, or officer is trans-
ferred to the Secretary, 
then such suit shall be continued by the Secretary (except in the case 
of a suit not involving functions transferred to the Secretary, in which 
case the suit shall be continued by the department, agency, or officer 
which was a party to the suit prior to the effective date of this Act). 
(d) With respect to any function, power, or duty transferred by this 
Act and exercised after the effective date of this Act, reference in any 
other Federal law to any department or agency, officer or office so 
transferred or functions of which are so transferred shall be deemed 
to mean the officer or agency in which this Act vests such function 
after such transfer. 
SEPARABILITY 
SEC. 13. If an^ proyision of this Act or the application thereof to 
any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this 
Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or cir-
cumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
CODIFICATION 
SEC. 14. The Secretary is directed to submit to the Congress within 
two years from the effective date of this Act, a proposed codification 
of all laws that contain the powers, duties, and functions transferred 
to or vested in the Secretary or the Department by this Act. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
EFFECTIVE DATE; INITIAL APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS 
SEC. 15. (a) This Act shall take effect ninety days after the Sec-
retary first takes office, or on such prior date after enactment of this 
Act as the President shall prescribe and publish in the Federal 
Register. 
(D) Any of the officers provided for in this Act may (notwith-
standing subsection (a)) be appointed in the manner provided for in 
this Act, at any time after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Such 
officers shall be compensated from the date they first take office, at 
the rates provided for in this Act. 
Such compensation and related 
expenses of their offices shall be paid from funds available for the 
functions to be transferred to the Department pursuant to this Act. 
Approved October 15, 1966, 1:25 p.m. 
October 15, 1966 
[S. 34 23] 
Public Law 89-671 
AN ACT 
To provide for the establishment of the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Fairfax Connty, 
Virginia, and for other purposes. 
Wolf Trap Farm 
Park, Va. 
Establishment. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the pur-
pose of establishing in the National Capital area a park for the per-
forming arts and related educational programs, and for recreation use 
in connection therewith, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to 
establish, develop, improve, operate, and maintain the Wolf Trap 
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Farm Park in Fairfax County, Virginia. Tlie park shall encompass 
the portions of the property formerly knowii as Wolf Trap Farm and 
Symphony Hill in Fairfax County, Virginia, to be donated for park 
purposes to the United States, and such additional lands or interests 
therein as the Secretary may acquire for purposes of the park by 
donation or purchase with donated or appropriated funds, the aggre-
gate of which shall not exceed one hundred and forty-five acres. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the park in 
accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this Act and the Act of 
August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1-4), as amended and 
supplemented. 
SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may Appropriation. 
be necessary, but not in excess of $600,000, to carry out the purposes of 
this Act. 
Approved October 15, 1966. 
Public Law 89-672 
AN A C T 
October 15, 1966 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts for scientific 
[S. 3460] 
and technological research, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) the Secre- ^nt^fio'' cepart-
tary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contracts with educa- ""^Re'search con-
tional institutions, public or private agencies or organizations, or tracts, authoriza-
persons for the conduct of scientific or technological research into any 
aspect of the problems related to the programs of the Department of 
the Interior which are authorized by statute. 
(b) The Secretary shall require a showing that the institutions, 
agencies, organizations, or persons with which he expects to enter 
into contracts pursuant to tnis section have the capability of doing 
ejffective work. He shall furnish such advice and assistance as he 
believes will best carry out the mission of the Department of the 
Interior, participate in coordinating all research initiated under this 
section, indicate the lines of inquiry which seem to him most impor-
tant, and encourage and assist in the establishment and maintenance 
of cooperation by and between the institutions, agencies, organizations, 
or persons and between them and other research organizations, the 
United States Department of the Interior, and other Federal agencies. 
(c) The Secretary may from time to time disseminate in the form 
of reports or publications to public or private agencies or organiza-
tions, or individuals such information as he deems desirable on the 
research carried out pursuant to this section. 
(d) No contract involving more than $25,000 shall be executed under 
su^^^f^ikT" 
subsection (a) of this section prior to thirty calendar days from the congress. °" 
date the same is submitted to the President of the Senate and the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and said thirty calendar 
days shall not include days on which either the Senate or the House 
of Representatives is not in session because of an adjournment of more 
than three calendar days to a day certain or an adjournment sine die. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary shall prescribe such rules and regulations as 
he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. Nothing contained in this Act is intended to amend, modify, 
or repeal any provisions of law administered by the Secretary of the 
Interior which authorize the making of contracts for research. 
Approved October 15, 1966.