An Act to stabilize support levels for tobacco against disruptive fluctuations and to provide for adjustment in such levels in relation to farm cost
PL 86-389 (H.R.9664), enacted 02/20/1960

PUBLIC LAW 86-389-FEB. 20, 1980 
[74 ST A T . 
section (a) and also all costs of such additional highway crossing or 
highway crossings, such rail transit crossing, and their approaches 
(includnig the costs of all reconstruction, alterations, additions, better-
ments, improvements, and extensions thereof and all interest, financing, 
and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), such bridge and sucn 
additional higliway crossing or highway crossings shall thereafter be 
maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall there-
after be adjusted so as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount 
necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of such 
bridge and such additional highway crossing or highway crossings 
and their approaches, under economical management. 
An accurate 
record of the costs of such bridge, such highway crossing or highway 
crossings, such rail transit crossings, and their approaches, the 
expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating such bridge 
and such additional highway crossing or highway crossings and of 
the daily tolls collected, shall be kept and shall be available for the 
information of all persons interested. 
Nothing herein shall impair 
or limit the full power and authority of the State of California or any 
public body in such State to provide for the use of such rail transit 
crossing and the fixing, charging, and collection of fares and charges 
in connection with the transportation of goods or passengers by means 
of such rail transit crossing." 
Approved February 20, 1960. 
Public Law 86-389 
February 20, 1960 
[H. R. 9664] 
AN ACT 
To stabilize support levels for tobacco against disruptive fluctuations and to 
provide for adjustment in such levels in relation to farm cost. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
supp^o^rt^ieveis. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title I of the 
7 use 1441 a^d Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is hereby further amended by 
note, 1443, 1444. adding at the end thereof a new section 106, as follows: 
"SEC. 106. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of section 101 of 
this Act: (a) For the 1960 crop of any kind of tobacco for which 
marketing quotas are in effect, or for which marketing quotas are not 
disapproved by producers, the support level in cents per pound shall 
be the level at which the 1959 crop of such kind of tobacco was sup-
ported, or if marketing quotas were disapproved for the 1959 crop 
of such kind of tobacco, the level at which the 1959 crop of such kind 
of tobacco would have been supported if marketing quotas had been in 
effect, 
(b) For the 1961 crop and each subsequent crop of any kind 
of tobacco for which marketing quotas are in effect, or for which 
marketing quotas are not disapproved by producers, the support level 
in cents per pound shall be determined by adjusting the support level 
for the 1959 crop of such kind of tobacco, or if marketing quotas were 
disapproved for the 1959 crop of such kind of tobacco, the level at 
which the 1959 crop of such kind of tobacco would have been sup-
ported if marketing quotas had been in effect, by multiplying such 
support level for the 1959 crop by the ratio of (i) the average of the 
index of prices paid by farmers, including wage rates, interest, and 
taxes, as defined in section 301(a) (1) (C) of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, for the three calendar years immediately 
preceding the calendar year in which the marketing year begins for 
the crop for which the support level is being determined to (ii) the 
average index of such prices paid by farmers, including wage rates, 
interest, and taxes for the calendar year 1959." 
52 Stat. 31. 
7 u s e 1301. 
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PUBLIC LAW 86-391-MAR. 18, 1960 
SEC. 2. Section 101(e) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1949 (63 Stat. 1051; 7 U.S.C. 1441(6)) and section 2 of the Act of 
July 28,1945, as amended (59 Stat. 506; 7 U.S.C. 1312 note) are hereby 
deleted. 
Approved February 20, 1960. 
Public Law 86-390 
AN ACT 
March 18, 1960 
To amend the mining laws of the United States to provide for tlie inclusion of 
—[s. 2033]— 
certain nonmineral lands in patents to placer claims. 
N o n m i n e r a l 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2337 of 
the Revised Statutes of the United States (30 U.S.C. 42) is amended ^°pltents to placer 
(1) by adding " ( a ) " after "SEC. 2337.", and (2) by adding at the claims. 
end thereof a new subsection as follows: 
"(b) Where nonmineral land is needed by the proprietor of a placer 
claim for mining, milling, processing, beneficiation, or other operations 
in connection with such claim, and is used or occupied by the proprietor 
for such purposes, such land may be included in an application for 
a patent for such claim, and may be patented therewith subject to the 
same requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to placers. 
No location made of such nonmineral land shall exceed five acres and 
payment for the same shall be made at the rate applicable to placer 
claims which do not include a vein or lode."' 
Approved March 18, 1960. 
Public Law 86-391 
AN ACT 
March 18. 1960 
To authorize tlie issuance of prospecting permits for phosphate in lauds 
[s. 206:i] 
belonging to the United States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled, That (a) section 9 
Phosph^e. 
of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 440), ^^f^^P«<=""« P**^ 
as amended (30 U.S.C. 211), is further amended by the insertion of 
an (a) at the beginning of the section and by the addition of the two 
following subsections: 
"(b) Where prospecting or exploratory work is necessary to deter-
mine the existence or workability of phosphate deposits in any 
unclaimed, undeveloped area, the Secretary of the Interior is author-
ized to issue, to any applicant qualified under this Act, a prospecting 
permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for phosphate 
deposits, including associated minerals, for a period of two years, 
for not more than two thousand five hundred and sixty acres; and if 
prior to the expiration of the permit the permittee shows to the Secre-
tary that valuable deposits of phosphate have been discovered within 
the area covered by his permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a 
lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit. 
"(c) Any phosphate permit issued under this section may be 
extended by the Secretary for such an additional period, not in excess 
of four years, as he deems advisable, if he finds that the permittee has 
been unable, with reasonable diligence, to determine the existence or 
workability of phosphate deposits in the area covered by the permit