An Act to amend the Organic Act of Guam in order to authorize the legislature thereof to provide by law for the election of its members from election districts
PL 89-552 (H.R.13298), enacted 09/02/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-552-SEPT. 2, 1966 
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(7) Section 10 (33 U.S.C. 1009) is amended by changing the phrase 
at the end thereof from "and 9"' to "9, and 12." 
(8) Section 12 (33 U.S.C. 1011) is amended to read as follows: ^^P;^'^^^"''^ 
"SEC. 12. (a) All sea areas within fifty miles from the nearest land 
shall be prohibited zones, subject to extensions or reduction effectuated 
in accordance with the terms of the Convention, which shall be pub-
lished in regulations prescribed by the Secretary. 
"(b) With respect to the reduction or extension of the zones 
described under the terms of the Convention, the Secretary shall give 
notice thereof by publication of such information in Notices to Mari-
ners issued by the United States Coast Guard and United States 
Navy." 
(9) Section 13 (33 U.S.C. 1012) is repealed. 
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(10) Section 17 (33 U.S.C. 1015) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 17. (a) This Act shall become effective upon the date of its Effective date. 
enactment or upon the date the amended Convention becomes effective 
as to the United States, whichever is the later date. 
"(b) Any rights or liabilities existing on the effective date of this 
Act shall not be affected by the enactment of this Act. Any proce-
dures or rules or regulations in effect on the effective date of this Act 
shall remain in effect until modified or superseded under the authority 
of this Act. Any reference in any other law or rule or regulation 
prescribed pursuant to law to the 'International Convention for the 
Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954,' shall be deemed 
^^ UST 2989. 
to be a reference to that Convention as revised hj the 'Amendments 
of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of 
the Sea by Oil, 1954,' which were adopted by a Conference of Con-
tracting Governments convened at London on April 11, 1962. Any 
reference in any other law or rule or regulation prescribed pursuant 
to law to the MOil Pollution Act, 1961,' approved August 30, 1961 
(33 U.S.C. 1001-1015), shall be deemed to be a reference to that Act ^s stat. 402. 
as amended by this Act." 
Approved September 1, 1966. 
Public Law 89-552 
AN A C T 
September 2, 19 66 
To amend the Organic Act of Guam in order to authorize the legislature thereof 
[H. R. 13298] 
to provide by law for the election of its members from election districts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhlea^ That section 10 of Guam. 
the Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1423), is amended to read as redrstrfctlng." 
f o l l o w s : 
64 Stat. 387. 
"SEC. 10. (a) The legislative power and authority of Guam shall 
be vested in a legislature, consisting of a single house, to be designated 
the 'Legislature of Guam', herein referred to as the legislature. 
"(b) The legislature shall be composed of not to exceed twenty-one 
members, to be known as senators, elected at large, or elected from leg-
islative districts, or elected in part at large and in part from legislative 
districts, as the laws of Guam may direct: Provided^ That any district-
ing and any apportionment pursuant to this authorization and pro-
vided for by the laws of Guam shall not deny to any person in Guam 
the equal protection of the laws: And provmed further^ That in any 
elections to the legislature, every elector shall be permitted to vote for 
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the whole number of at-large candidates to be elected, and every elector 
residing in a legislative district shall be permitted to vote for the whole 
number of candidates to be elected within that district. 
"(c) The laws of Guam shall not alter the manner in which members 
of the legislature are to be elected as provided in subsection (b) of this 
section more often than at ten-year intervals: Provided^ That any dis-
tricting and related apportionment pursuant to this section shall be 
based upon the then most recent Federal population census of Guam, 
and any such districting and apportionment shall be reexamined fol-
lowing each successive Federal population census of Guam and shall be 
modified, if necessary, to be consistent with that census. 
"(d) General elections to the legislature shall be held on the Tues-
day next after the first Monday in November, biennially in even-
numbered years. The legislature in all respects shall be organized 
and shall sit according to the laws of Guam." 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, and sub-
ject to the conditions and requirements of section 10 of the Organic 
Act of Guam, as amended by section 1 hereof, the laws of Guam shall 
be amended to make provision for the manner of the election of mem-
bers of the legislature. Until the laws of Guam shall make such pro-
vision, the method of electing the legislature shall remain as it is 
upon the date of enactment or this Act. 
Approved September 2, 1966. 
September 2, 19 66 
[S. 60 2] 
Small Reclama-
tion Projects Act 
of 19 56, amend-
ments. 
43 u s e 422b. 
43 u s e 422d. 
Contents of 
proposals. 
Intra, 
Loans and 
grants. 
Limitations, 
Public Law 89-553 
AN ACT 
To amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956. 
Be it enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Small 
Keclamation Projects Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 1044), as amended (43 
U.S.C. 422a et seq.) is hereby further amended as follows: 
(1) In section 2, by striking out the second sentence of subsec-
tion (d) and the first two provisos thereto and inserting in lieu thereof 
the following: "The term 'project' shall not include any such under-
taking, unit, or program the cost of which exceeds $10,000,000, and no 
loan, grant, or combination thereof for any project shall be in excess 
of $6,500,000:" and by striking out ^^And provided 
further,^'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof '•''Provided,^''; 
(2) In section 4, by adding at the end of subsection (a) the follow-
ing : "The costs of means and measures to prevent loss of and damage 
to fish and wildlife resources shall be considered as project costs and 
allocated as may be appropriate among project functions."; 
(3) In section 4, subsection (b), by striking out the word "construc-
tion" from the phrase which now reads "and willing to finance other-
wise than by loan and grant under this Act such portion of the cost of 
construction" and inserting in lieu thereof "the project"; by inserting 
at the end of the parenthetical phrase which follows thereafter 
", except as provided in subsection 5(b)(2) hereof,"; and by changing 
the colon (:) to a period (.) and striking out the remainder of said 
subsection; 
(4) In section 5, by striking out the present text of items (a), (b), 
and (c) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
" (a) the maximum amount of any loan to be made to the organiza-
tion and the time and method of making the same available to the 
organization. Said loan shall not exceed the lesser of (1) $6,500,000 
or (2) the estimated total cost of the project minus the contribution of