An Act to provide for the establishment of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in the State of Colorado
PL 91-60 (S.912), enacted 08/20/1969

83 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 91-60-AUG. 20, 1969 
101 
Public Law 91-58 
AN ACT 
August 18, 1969 
To designate the Ventana Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest, in the State of 
[s. 7i4] 
California. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United, States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in accordance 
with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 
Stat. 891), the area classified as the Ventana Primitive Area, with the 
proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as j^enerally 
depicted on a map entitled "Ventana Wilderness—Proposed," dated 
March 14, 1969, which is on file and available for public inspection in 
the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Aj^riculture, is 
hereby designated as the Ventana Wilderness within and as a part of 
Los Padres National Forest, comprising an area of approximately 
ninety-eight thousand acres. 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secre-
tary of the Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the 
Ventana Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees 
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 errors in such le^al description and map may be made. 
SEC. 3. The Ventana Wilderness shall be administered by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilder-
ness 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. 
SEC. 4. The previous classification of the Ventana Primitive Area 
is hereby abolished. 
Approved August 18, 1969. 
Ventana 
Wilderness, Calif. 
Designation. 
16 u s e 1132. 
Filing of map, 
etc. 
Administration. 
Public Law 91-59 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To provide for a teuii>orary extension of the authority confen-ed by the Export 
Control Act of 1949. 
August 18, 1969 
[H. J. Res. 864] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 12 of the Export 
Control Act of 1949, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2032), is amended 
bv striking out "June 30, 1969" and inserting in lieu thereof "October 
31, 1969". 
Approved August 18, 1969. 
Ante, 
p. 
Post, 
p. 
42; 
169. 
Public Law 91-60 
AN ACT 
To provide for the establisliment of the Florissant Fossil Beds X.-itiouiil Monu-
ment in the State of Colorado. 
Be it enacted ty the Senate and Hcnise of Representatices 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to pre-
serve and interpret for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future 
generations the excellently preserved insect and leaf fossils and related 
geologic sites and objects at the Florissant lakebeds, the Secretary of 
August 20, 1969 
[S. 912] 
Florissant 
Fossil Beds Na-
tional Monument, 
Colo. 
Establishment. 
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PUBLIC LAW 91-61-AUG. 20, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
Administration. 
Appropriation. 
the Interior may acquire by donation, purchase witli donated or appro-
priated funds, or exchange such land and interests in land in Teller 
County, Colorado, as he may designate from the lands shown on the 
map entitled "Proposed Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument", 
numbered NM-FFB-7100, and dated March 1967, and more par-
ticularly described by metes and bounds in an attachment to that map, 
not exceeding, however, six thousand acres thereof, for the purpose of 
establishing the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the property 
acquired pursuant to section 1 of this Act as the Florissant Fossil Beds 
National Monument in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to 
establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved 
August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended and 
supplemented. 
SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, but not 
more than $3,727,000, as may be necessary for the acquisition of lands 
and interests in land for the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monu-
ment and for necessary development expenses in connection therewith. 
Approved August 20, 1969. 
August 20, 1969 
[S.1611] 
Public Law 91-61 
" 
AN ACT 
To amend Public Law 85-{K)5 to provide for a National Center on Educational 
Media and Materials for the Handicapped, and for other purposes. 
National Center 
on Educational 
Media and Mate« 
rials for the 
Handicapped. 
Establishment. 
79 Stat. 983. 
42 u s e 2491-
2495. 
Report to 
Congress. 
49 Stat. 1011; 
78 Stat. 238. 
64 Stat. 
63 Stat. 
1267. 
108. 
Be it endcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of Sep-
tember 2, 1958 (Public Law 85-905) is amended— 
(1) in section 3, by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(c) (1) The Secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with 
an institution of higher education for the establishment and operation 
(including construction) of a National Center on Educational Media 
and Materials for the Handicapped, which will provide a comprehen-
sive program of activities to facilitate the use of new educational tech-
nology m education j)rograms for handicapped persons, including 
designing and developing, and adapting instructional materials, and 
such other activities consistent with the purposes of this Act as the 
Secretary may prescribe in the agreement. Such agreement shall— 
" (A) provide that Federal funds paid to the Center will be used 
solely for such purposes as are set forth in the agreement; 
"(B) authorize the Center, subject to the Secretary's prior 
approval, to contract with public and private agencies and organi-
zations for demonstration projects; 
"(C) provide for an annual report on the activities of the 
Center which will be transmitted to the Congress; 
"(D) provide that any laborer or mechanic employed by any 
contractor or subcontractor in performance of work on any con-
struction aided by Federal funds under this subsection will be paid 
wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construc-
tion in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in 
accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a—^276a-5); 
and the Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor 
standards specified in this clause, the authority and functions 
set forth in Eeorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 
3176; 5 U.S.C. 133z-15) and section 2 of the Act of June 13,1934 
(40 U.S.C. 276c).