An Act to amend section 4082 of title 18, United States Code, to facilitate the rehabilitation of persons convicted of offenses against the United States
PL 89-176 (H.R.6964), enacted 09/10/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-176-SEPT. 10,1965 
[79 STAT. 
Termination. 
officials appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, whether acting singly or jointly or as a committee or board: 
Provided^ however^ That the President may not delegate his authority 
under section 2(d) to waive the requirements for a finding by the 
Attorney General and approve an agreement or program where he 
has found that the balance-of-payments position of the United States 
requires immediate approval. 
SEC. 6. This Act and all authority conferred thereunder shall ter-
minate twenty months after it becomes law, or on such date prior 
thereto as the President shall find that the authority conferred by this 
Act is no longer necessary as a means of safeguarding the balance-
of-payments position and shall by proclamation so declare. 
SEC. 7. As used in this Act the word "person" includes corjjora-
tions, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint 
stock companies, as well as individuals, satisfying the description con-
tained in section 1. 
Approved September 9, 1965. 
September 10, 1965 
[H. R. 6964] 
Public Law 89-176 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4082 of title 18, United States Code, to facilitate the rehabili-
tation of persons convicted of offenses against the United States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
rehabuit^t^k)n^"' 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4082 
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of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read: 
"§ 4082. Commitment to Attorney General; residential treatment 
centers; extension of limits of confinement; work 
furlough 
"(a) A person convicted of an offense against the United States 
shall be committed, for such term of imprisonment as the court may 
direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States, 
who shall designate the place of confinement where the sentence shall 
be served. 
"(b) The Attorney General may designate as a place of confine-
ment any available, suitable, and appropriate institution or facility, 
whether maintained by the Federal Government or otherwise, and 
whether within or without the judicial district in which the person 
was convicted, and may at any time transfer a person from one place 
of confinement to another. 
"(c) The Attorney General may extend the limits of the place of 
confinement of a prisoner as to whom there is reasonable cause to 
believe he will honor his trust, by authorizing him, under prescribed 
conditions, to— 
"(1) visit a specifically designated place or places for a period 
not to exceed thirty days and return to the same or another 
institution or facility. 
An extension of limits may be granted 
only to permit a visit to a dying relative, attendance at the 
funeral of a relative, the obtainmg of medical services not other-
wise available, the contacting of prospective employers, or for 
any other compelling reason consistent with the public interest; or 
"(2) work at paid employment or participate in a training 
program in the community on a voluntary basis while continuing 
as a prisoner of the institution or facility to which he is com-
mitted, provided that— 
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"(i) representatives of local union central bodies or simi-
lar labor union organizations are consulted; 
"(ii) such paid employment will not result in the dis-
placement of employed workers, or be applied in skills, 
crafts, or trades in which there is a surplus of available 
gainful labor in the locality, or impair existing contracts for 
services; and 
"(iii) the rates of pay and other conditions of employ-
ment will not be less than those paid or provided for work 
of similar nature in the locality in which the work is to be 
performed. 
A prisoner authorized to work at paid employment in the com-
munity under this subsection may be required to paj^, and the 
Attorney General is authorized to collect, such costs incident to 
the prisoner's confinement as the Attorney General deems appro-
priate and reasonable. 
Collections shall be deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. 
" (d) The willful failure of a prisoner to remain within the extended 
limits of his confinement, or to return within the time prescribed, to 
an institution or facility designated by the Attorney General, shall be 
deemed an escape from tlie custody of the Attorney General punishable 
as provided in chapter 35 of tliis title. 
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"(e) The authority conferred upon the Attorney General by this 
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section shall extend to all persons committed to the National Training 
School for Boys. 
"(f) As used in this section— 
Definitions. 
"the term 'facility' shall include a residential community 
treatment center; and 
"the term 'relative' shall mean a spouse, child (including step-
child, adopted child or child as to whom the prisoner, though not 
a natural parent, has acted in the place of a parent), parent 
(including a person who, though not a natural parent, has acted 
in the place of a parent), brother, or sister." 
SEC. 2. The chapter analysis of section 4082 of title 18, Tnited States 
Code, is amended to read: 
"Sec. 4082. Coumiitment to Attorney General; residential treatment centers, 
extension of limits of confinement; work furlough." 
SEC. 8. Sections 751 and 752 of title 18, United States Code, are 
62 stat. 734; 
amended by inserting the words "or facility" following the word '''^ ^
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"institution". 
Approved September 10, 1965. 
Public Law 89-177 
A N A C T 
September 10, 1965 
To designate Imk and dam 3 on the Cape Fear River, Ntrtth ("arulinn. as the 
[H. R. 496] 
William (). Hnske lock and dam. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate wnd House of Representatices 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That lock and dam 
3 located on the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, shall hereafter 
be known and designated as the "William O. Huske lock and dam". 
Any law, regulation, map, document, or record of the United States 
in which such lock and dam is referred to shall be held and considered 
to refer to such lock and dam as the "William O. PTuske hx-k and dam". 
Approved September 10, 1965. 
William O. 
Huske lock and 
dam, N.C.