An Act to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
PL 84-70 (S.153), enacted 06/15/1955

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CHAPTER 138 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Extending an invitation to tlie International Olympic Committee to hold the 
1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley, California. 
June 13, 1955 
[S. J. Res. 51] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Reprenentatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That whereas the United 
States Olympic Association will invite the International Olympic 
Committee to hold the Winter Olympic Games in the United States 
at Squaw Valley, California, in 1960, the Government of the United 
States joins in the invitation of the United States Olympic Associa-
tion to the International Olympic Committee to hold the 1960 Winter 
Olympic Games in the United States at Squaw Vallej^, California; 
and expresses the sincere hope that the United States wnll be selected 
as the site. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of State is directed to transmit a copy of this 
joint resolution to the International Olympic Committee, 
Approved June 13, 1955. 
Winter Olympic 
Games, 1960. 
Invitation f r o m 
U.S. 
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CHAPTER 139 
AN ACT 
To amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. 
June IS. 1955 
[S. 153] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That subsections 
(c), (d), and (e) of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended 
(7 U. S. C. 903 (c), (d), and (e)) are amended to read as follow^s: 
"(c) Twenty-five per centum of the annual sums herein made avail-
able or appropriated for loans for rural electrification pursuant to 
sections 4 and 5 of this title shall be allotted yearly by the Adminis-
trator for loans in the several States in the proportion which the 
nnmber of their farms not then receiving central station electric serv-
ice bears to the total number of farms of the United States not then 
receiving such service: Provided, That if any part of such sums 
are not loaned or obligated during the first six months of the fiscal 
year for which they are made available, such part shall thereafter be 
available for loans by the Administrator without allotment: 
Provided, 
however^ That not more than 25 per centum of said sums may be 
employed in any one State or in all of the Territories. The Admin-
istrator shall within ninety days after the beginning of each fiscal year 
determine for each State and for the United States the number of 
farms not then receiving such service. 
"(d) The remaining 75 per centum of such annual sums shall be 
available for rural electrification loans in the several States and in 
the Territories, without allotment as hereinabove provided in such 
amounts for each State and Territory as, in the opinion of the Admin-
istrator, may be effectively employed for the purposes of this Act, and 
to carry out the provisions of section 7: Provided, hoicever, That not 
more than 25 per centum of said unallotted annual sums may be 
employed in any one State, or in all of the Territories. 
''(e) If any part of the annual sums made available for the purposes 
of this Act are not loaned or obligated during the fiscal year for which 
they are made available, such unexpended or unobligated sums shall 
be available for loans by the Administrator in the following year 
or years without allotment: Provided, however, Tliat not more than 
Rural electrifica-
tion. 
49 Stat. 1364. 
Allotments 
f o r 
loans in States. 
U n a l l o t t e d 
funds. 
U n e z p e n d e d 
funds. 
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25 per centum of said sums for rural electrification loans may be 
employed in any one State or in all of the Territories." 
SEC. 2. Section 4 of such Act is amended by striking out "10 per 
centum" and inserting "25 per centum". 
Approved June 15, 1955. 
June 15. 1955 
[S. 4143 
Public Law 71 
CHAPTER 140 
AN ACT 
To authorize an examination and survey of the coastal and tidal areas of the 
eastern and southern United States, with particular reference to areas where 
severe damages have occurred from hurricane winds and tides. 
Hurricanes. 
Survey. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in view of the 
severe damage to the coastal and tidal areas of the eastern and south-
ern United States from the occurrence of hurricanes, particularly the 
hurricanes of August 31, 1954, and September 11, 1954, in the New 
England, New York, and New Jersey coastal and tidal areas, and the 
hurricane of October 15,1954, in the coastal and tidal areas extending 
south to South Carolina, and in view of the damages caused by other 
hurricanes in the past, the Secretary of the Army, in cooperation with 
the Secretary of Commerce and other Federal agencies concerned 
with hurricanes, is hereby authorized and directed to cause an ex-
amination and survey to be made of the eastern and southern seaboard 
of the United States with respect to hurricanes, with particular refer-
ence to areas where severe damages have occurred. 
SEC. 2. Such survey, to be made under the direction of the Chief 
of Engineers, shall include the securing of data on the behavior and 
frequency of hurricanes, and the determination of methods of fore-
casting their paths and improving warning services, and of possible 
means of preventing loss of human lives and damages to property, 
with due consideration of the economics of proposed breakwaters, sea-
walls, dikes, dams, and other structures, warning services, or other 
measures which might be required. 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved June 15, 1955. 
June 15, 1955 
[H. R. 3825] 
Public Law 72 
CHAPTER 141 
AN ACT 
To make retrocession to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of jurisdiction 
over certain land in the vicinity of Fort Devens, Massachusetts. 
Massachusetts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembJed, That the United 
1 J^^«"*i*="'»" °^ States hereby makes retrocession to the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts of concurrent jurisdiction over the following-described land: 
Parcel "A": A parcel of land in the tow^n of Harvard, comprising 
a portion of the original reservation of Fort Devens, shown on sheet 
numbered 1 of a plan on file in the Office of the Corps of Engi-
neers, New England Division, at Boston, Massachusetts, as number 
MED-PA-638, dated May 1946, said parcel being located in the 
northernmost portion of said original reservation and being bounded 
and described as follows: