An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility investigations of certain water resource developments
PL 91-81 (S.574), enacted 10/08/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-80-OCT. 1, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
Debris re-
moval. 
•'Major dis-
aster." 
64 Stat. 1109. 
Termination 
date. 
Short title. 
SEC. 14. The President, whenever he determines it to be in the public 
interest, and acting through the Director of the Office of Emergency 
Preparedness, is authorized to make grants to any State or political 
subdivision thereof for the purpose of removing debris deposited on 
privately owned lands and on or in privately owned waters as a result 
of a major disaster, and such State or political subdivision is author-
ized, upon application, to make payments to any person for reimburse-
ment of expenses actually incurred by such person in the removal of 
such debris, but not to exceed the amount that such expenses exceed the 
salvage value of such debris. 
SEC. 15. (a) As used in this Act the term "major disaster" means a 
major disaster as determined by the President pursuant to the Act 
entitled "An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local 
§
overnments in major disasters, and for other purposes", approved 
eptember 30, 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1855-1855g), which dis-
aster occurred after June 30,1967, and on or before December 31,1970. 
(b) This Act, other than sections 5, 8, 9, and 13, shall not be in effect 
after December 31,1970, except as it applies to major disasters occur-
ring before such date. 
SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "Disaster Relief Act of 1969". 
Approved October 1, 1969. 
October 1, 1969 
[H. R. 9526] 
Public Law 91-80 
AN ACT 
To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act to provide 
that employer contributions do not have to be made under that Act with respect 
to service performed in the employ of certain public international organizations. 
D.C. Unemploy-
ment Compensa-
tion Act, 
amendment. 
57 Stat. 100; 
72 Stat. 417. 
59 Stat. 669; 
80 Stat. 5. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection 
(b) (5) of section 1 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Com-
pensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-301 (b) (5)) is amended— 
(1) by striking out the period at the end of clauses (P) and (R) 
and inserting at the end of such clauses a semicolon, and 
(2) by adding after clause (S) the following new clause: 
" (T) service performed after April 1,1962, in the employ of a 
public international organization designated by the. President as 
entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities pro-
vided under the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 
U.S.C. 288—288f-l)." 
Approved October 1, 1969. 
Public Law 91-81 
October 8, 1969 
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To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility investigations 
of certain water resburce developments. 
Water resource 
development 
projects. 
Feasibility 
studies. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby authorized to engage in feasibility studies of 
the following proposals: 
(1) Missouri River Basin project, Oregon Trail division, Corn 
Creek unit, in south-central Goshen County, in the vicinity of Hawk 
Springs, Wyoming; 
(2) Missouri River Basin project, I^ngs Peak division, Front 
Range unit, in Cache la Poudre River and Saint Vrain Creek Basins 
and adjacent areas in the general vicinity of Boulder, Colorado; 
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(3) Missouri River Basin project, Upper Republican division, Ar-
mel unit, on the South Fork of the Republican River in the vicinity 
of Hale, Colorado; 
(4) Shoshone project, Buffalo Bill Dam modifications, the Shoshone 
River, about five miles west of Cody, Wyoming; 
(5) Missouri River Basin project, James DivisioUj Sioux Falls unit, 
in the Big Sioux River Basin in the vicinity of Sioux Falls, South 
Dakota; 
(6) Amargosa project, in the Amargosa River Basin in the vicinity 
of Beatty, Nevada, and Death Vallev Junction, California; 
(7) Willamette River project, Calapooia division, in the Calapooia 
River Basin in Linn County, Oregon; and 
(8) Willamette River project. South Yamhill division, on the South 
Yamhill and Willamette Rivers in Yamhill and Polk Counties, Oregon. 
Approved October 8, 1969. 
Public Law 91-82 
AN ACT 
October 10, 1969 
To designate the Desolation Wilderness, Eldorado National Forest, in the State 
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of California. 
Forest, Calif. 
Designation. 
16 use 1132. 
Filing of map, 
etc. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in accordance wi°de^mess°" 
with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Eidorado National 
Stat. 891), the area classified as the Desolation Valley Primitive Area, 
with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Desolation Wilderness—Pro-
posed," dated April 26, 1967, which is on file and available for public 
inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture, is hereby designated as the Desolation Wilderness within 
and as part of the Eldorado National Forest, comprising an area of 
approximately sixty-three thousand five hundred acres. 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secre-
tary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the 
Desolation Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Com-
mittees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, 
and such description shall have the same force and effect as if included 
in this Act: Provided^ however^ That correction of clerical and typo-
graphical erroi-s in such legal description and map may be made. 
SEC. 3. The Desolation Wilderness shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the 
Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness 
areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date 
of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective 
date of this Act, and except that the owners and operators of existing 
federally licensed hydroelectric facilities shall have the right of 
reasonable access to the areas for purposes of operating and maintain-
ing such facilities in a manner that is consistent with past practices 
without prior approval of the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. The previous classification of the Desolation Valley Prim-
itive Area is hereby abolished. 
Approved October 10, 1969. 
Administration.