An Act to correct inequities with respect to the basic compensation of teachers and teaching positions under the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act
PL 89-391 (H.R.6845), enacted 04/14/1966

80 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-391-APRIL 14, 1966 
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Public Law 89-391 
A N A C T 
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To correct inequities with respect to the basic compensation of teachers and 
[H. R. 6845] 
teaching positions under the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and 
Personnel Practices Act. 
Armed Forces. 
Overseas teach-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 
4(a)(2) of the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and err/saiaPy adrus't-
Personnel Practices Act (73 Stat. 214; Public Law 86-91; 5 U.S.C. •"«"' 
2352(a) (2)) is amended to read as follows: 
" (2) the fixing of basic compensation for teachers and teaching 
positions at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of 
basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level 
of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the 
United States of 100,000 or more population;". 
(b) Section 5(c) of such Act (73 Stat. 214; Public Law 86-91; 
5 U.S.C. 2353(c)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) The Secretary of each military department shall fix the basic 
compensation for teachers and teaching positions in his military 
department at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic 
compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and 
responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 
100,000 or more population.". 
(c) Section 5 of such Act (73 Stat. 214; Public Law 86-91; 5 
U.S.C. 2353) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
new subsection: 
"(c) On or before the 15th day of January in each calendar year 
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beginning after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary mut^^es"^ 
of Defense shall report to the respective Committees on Post Office 
and Civil Service of the Senate and the House of Representatives the 
following information— 
"(1) the number of teachers separated from teaching posi-
tions subsequent to the close of the immediately preceding full 
school year; 
"(2) the number of such separated teachers who returned to 
the United States; 
"(3) the number of such separated teachers placed in positions 
as teachers in the United States following such separation; 
"(4) the number of such separated teachers returned to posi-
tions as teachers in the United States under voluntary reciprocal 
interchange agreements with school jurisdictions in the United 
States; 
" (5) the number of such separated teachers placed in positions 
as teachers in the United States through special placement assist-
ance programs of the Department of Defense and the military 
departments; 
" (6) the number of such separated teachers who (A) were sepa-
rated at their own request and (B) were separated involuntarily; 
"(7) the number of such separated teachers who had served in 
teaching positions (A) three years or more and (B) five years 
or more; 
"(8) the number of new teachers appointed to teaching posi-
tions at the beginning of the school year current at time of the 
report; and 
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Effective date. 
"(9) the number of such new teachers obtained through volun-
tary reciprocal interchange agreements with school jurisdictions 
in the United States." 
SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall 
become effective on the first day of the first pay period which begins 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved April 14, 1966. 
April 14, 1966 
[H. R. 7723] 
Public Law 89-392 
AN ACT 
To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on 
certain tropical hardwoods. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rejyresentatlves of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subpart B of 
Duty suspension, part 1 of the appcudix to title I of the Tariff Act of 1930 (Tariff 
Schedules of the United States; 28 F.R., part II, Aug. 17, 1963; 77A 
Stat.; 19 U.S.C., sec. 1202) is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new items: 
Tropical hard 
woods 
77A Stat. 434. 
916.20 
916. 21 
916.22 
916.23 
Hardwood lumber, rough, dressed, or 
worked, provided for in item 202,36 
Hardwood lumber, rough, dressed, or 
worked, provided for in item 202.39 
Hardwood lumber, rough, dressed, or 
worked, provided for in item 202.41, 
except 
Boxwood (Buxus spp.), 
Japanese maple (Acer spp.), and 
Japanese white oak (Quercus spp.).., 
Hardwood lumber, rough, dressed, or 
worked, provided for in item 202.43, 
except 
Alder (Alnusspp.), 
Almon (Shorea almon). 
Ash (Fraxinus spp.), 
Aspen and Cottonwood (populus 
spp.), 
Bagtikan (Parashorea plicata), 
Basswood (Tilia spp.). 
Beech (Fagus spp.). 
Birch (Betulaspp.), 
Black or lupelo gum (Nyssa spp.), 
Buckeye (Aesculusspp.), 
Cherry (Prunusspp.), 
Elm (Ulraus spp.). 
Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.), 
Hickory (Carya spp.), 
Lauan, red (Shorea negrosensis), 
Lauan, white (Pentacme contorta 
and P. mindanensis), 
Magnolia (Magnolia spp.), 
Maple (Acer spp.), 
Mayapis (Shorea squamata), 
Meranti (Shorea spp.). 
Oak (Quercus spp.). 
Sen (Kalopanax spp.), 
Seraya, red (Shorea spp.), 
Seraya, white (Parashorea spp.). 
Sweet (red or sap) gum (Liqui-
damber spp.). 
Sycamore (Platanusspp.), 
Tangile (Shorea polysperma), 
Tiaong (Shoreaspp.). 
Walnut (Juglansspp.), 
Willow (Salix spp.), and 
Yellow poplar (Liriodendron spp.), 
Free 
Free 
Free 
Free 
$3 per 1,000 ft., 
board meas-
ure 
$3.10 per 1,000 
ft., board 
measure 
15% ad val. 
$3perl,000ft., 
board meas-
ure 
On or before 
12/31/67 
On or before 
12/31/67 
On or before 
12/31/67 
On or before 
12/31/67 
Effective date. 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumption after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Approved April 14, 1966. '