An Act to amend the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968, and for other purposes.
PL 93-62 (H.R.5857), enacted 07/06/1973

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PUBLIC LAW 93-62-JULY 6, 1973 
[87 
STAT. 
Time require-
ments. 
84 Stat. 1714. 
sums authorized in this section shall be available for expenditure as 
follows: 
(a) 45 per centum for projects on the Federal-aid primary high-
way system; 
(b) 30 per centum for projects on the Federal-aid secondary 
highway system; and 
(c) 25 per centum for projects on extensions of the Federal-aid 
primary and Federal-aid secondary highway systems in urban 
areas. 
SKC. 3. The time requirements in section 104(b) of title 23, United 
States Code, shall not be applicable to the apportionment of sums 
authorized by this Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and 
the Secretary shall apportion such sums for such fiscal year as soon 
as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved July 6, 1973. 
Public Law 93-62 
July 6, 1973 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 5857] 
rjr^ amend the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968, and for other 
purposes. 
National Visitor 
Center Facilities 
Act of 1968, 
amendment. 
40 u s e 802. 
Limitation. 
40 u s e 807. 
Interpretive 
transportation 
services. Federal 
areas. 
40 u s e 804 
note. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of tlie 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the National 
Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 43), is amended by 
inserting after subsection (b) in section 102 the following new sub-
section : 
"(c) In addition to the alterations and construction by the company 
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary is authorized 
to undertake, directly by competitive bidding or, if he deems it to be 
in the best interest of the United States, by negotiated contract with 
the company, its successors, agents, and assigns, such alterations and 
construction, with regard to the Union Station Building and the 
adjacent parking facility, as he deems necessary to supplement the 
activities of the company in providing adequate facilities for visitors 
under the agreements and leases referred to in subsection (a). The 
Secretary may exercise the authority under this subsection without 
regard to whether or not title to the Union Station Building or the 
airspace adjacent thereto is in the United States: Provided^ That he 
shall have entered into an agreement for a lease (but such lease need 
not have commenced) with the company incorporating the provisions 
of paragraph (5) of subsection (a) prior to the exercise of the 
authority under this subsection: And provided further^ That not to 
exceed $8,680,000 of the funds authorized to be appropriated in section 
109 shall be available for the Secretary to carry out the provisions of 
this subsection." 
SEC. 2. The National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 
43) is amended by revising section 104 to read as follows: 
"SEC. 104. The Secretary is directed to utilize the authority under 
the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supple-
mented (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), to provide interpretive transportation 
services between or in Federal areas within the District of Columbia 
and environs, including, but not limited to, transportation of visitors 
on, among, and between the Mall, the Ellipse, the National Visitor 
Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and East 
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and West Potomac Park, and such other visitor facilities as may be 
established pursuant to this Act, and, with the concurrence of the 
Architect of the Capitol, to provide such services on, among, and 
between such areas and the United States Capitol Grounds. The 
Secretary shall determine that such services are desirable to facilitate 
visitation and to insure proper management and protection of such 
areas. Such interpretive transportation services shall, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law to the contrary, be deemed transportation 
by the United States and shall be under the sole and exclusive charge 
and control of the Secretary." 
Approved July 6, 1973. 
Public Law 93-63 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
juiy 6, 1973 
To provide for an extension of certain laws relating to the payment of interest [s. j . Res. 128] 
on time and savings deposits. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 7 of the Act 
of September 21,1966 (Public Law 89-597; 80 Stat. 823), is amended 
by striking out "June 1,1973" and inserting in lieu thereof "August 1, no\e. 
1973". 
Approved July 6, 1973. 
85 Stat. 38. 
12 u s e 461 
Public Law 93-64 
AN ACT 
July 9, 1973 
To amend titles 10 and 37, United States Code, to make permanent certain 
[H. R. 8537] 
provisions of the Dependents Assistance Act of 1950, as amended, and for 
other purposes. 
Armed Forces 
Dependents, 
allowances. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repi^esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO MAKE PERMANENT 
CER-
TAIN PROVISIONS OF T H E DEPENDENTS ASSISTANCE 
ACT OF 1950, AS AMENDED 
SEC. 101. Sections 10, 11, and 12 of the Dependents Assistance Act 
^l%^\' 
of 1950 (50 App. U.S.C. 2210, 2211, and 2212) are repealed. 
^ 
" 
SEC. 102. Chapter 59 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by gilfat^^fsV^^' 
adding after section 1172 the following new section and inserting a 
lo use iiei 
corresponding item in the analysis: