An Act to authorize the interchange of lands between the Department of Agriculture and military departments of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes
PL 84-804 (S.2572), enacted 07/26/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 804-JULY 26, 1956 
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33 u s e 918, 921. 
33 u s e 939. 
33 u s e 944. 
33 u s e 939. 
33 u s e 944. 
33 u s e 908. 
Supra, 
Ante, p. 655. 
Applicability. 
56 Stat. 1028. 
of the Secretary of Labor under section 18 or under subsection (c) of 
section 21 of this Act, or both, seek to recover the amount of the de-
fault or so much thereof as in the judgment of the Secretary is pos-
sible, or the Secretary may settle and compromise any such claim.'' 
SEC. 7. (a) Section 39 (c) of the said Act is amended by striking 
out "education" at the end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu 
thereof "rehabilitation". 
(b) Section 39 (c) of such Act is further amended by striking out 
the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following two 
sentences: "Where necessary rehabilitation services are not available 
otherwise, the Secretary of Labor may, in his discretion, use the fund 
provided for in section 44 in such amounts as may be necessary to 
procure such services, including necessary prosthetic appliances or 
other apparatus. 
This fund shall also be available in such amounts as 
may be authorized in annual appropriations for the Department of 
Labor for the costs of administering this subsection." 
SEC. 8. (a) Section 44 (a) of the said Act is amended by striking 
out "of this Act" at the end of the first sentence and inserting in lieu 
thereof a comma and the following: "of subsection (b) of section 18, 
and of subsection (c) of section 39 of this Act". 
(b) The second sentence of paragraph (1) of section 44 (c) of such 
Act is amended to read as follows: "The proceeds of this fund shall 
be available for payments under subsections (f) and (g) of section 8, 
under subsection (b) of section 18, and under subsection (c) of section 
39: Provided, That payments authorized by suteection (f) shall have 
priority over other payments authorized from the fund: 
Provided 
further, That at the close of each fiscal year the Secretary of Labor 
shall submit to the Congress a complete audit of the fund." 
SEC. 9. The amendments made by the first section and sections 2, 
4, and 5 of this Act shall be applicable only with respect to injuries 
and death occurring on or after the date of enactment of this Act 
notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of December 2, 1942, as 
amended (42 U. S. C. sec. 1701 and following). 
Approved July 26, 1956. 
July 26, 1956 
[S. 2572] 
Public Law 804 
CHAPTER 736 
AN ACT 
To authorize the interchange of lauds between the Department of Agriculture and 
military departments of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes. 
National forest 
and a(j(Jacent lands. 
63 Stat. 377. 
40 u s e 471 nots. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture with respect to national forest lands and the Secretary 
of a military department with respect to lands under the control of the 
military department which lie within or adjacent to the exterior 
boundaries of a national forest are authorized, subject to any appli-
cable provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949, as amended, to interchange such lands, or any part thereof, 
without reimbursement or transfer of funds whenever they shall deter-
mine that such interchange will facilitate land management and will 
provide maximum use thereof for authorized purposes: Provided, That 
no such interchange of lands shall become effective until forty-five 
days (counting only days occurring during any regular or special ses-
sion of the Congress) after the submission to the Confess by the 
respective Secretaries of notice of intention to make the interchange. 
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SEC. 2. Any national forest lands which are transferred to a mili-
tary department in accordance with this Act shall be thereafter sub-
ject only to the laws applicable to other lands within the military 
installation or other public works project for which such lands are 
required and any lands which are transferred to the Department of 
Agriculture in accordance with this Act shall become subject to the 
laws applicable to lands acquired under the Act of March 1,1911 (36 
Stat. 961), as amended. 
Approved July 26, 1956. 
Laws applicable. 
16 u s e 552. 
Public Law 805 
CHAPTER 737 
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July 2^ 1956 
To require periodic survey by the Secretary of Commerce of national sblpbuildiug 
[S. 3705] 
capability. 
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 502 
(f) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, is hereby amended vev, 
by striking out the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof 
the following two new sentences: "The Secretary of Commerce, with 
the advice of and in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy, shall 
periodically, as required for purposes of this Act, survey the existing 
privately owned shipyards capable of merchant ship construction, or 
review available data on such shipyards if deemed adequate, to deter-
mine whether their capabilities for merchant ship construction, includ-
ing facilities and skilled personnel, provide an adequate mobilization 
base at strategic points for purposes of national defense and national 
emergency. The Secretary of Commerce, in connection with ship 
construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, or remodeling under 
title VII and section 509, and the Federal Maritime Board, in connec-
tion with ship construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning under 
title V (except section 509), upon a basis of a finding that the award of 
the proposed construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, or remodel-
ing work will remedy an existing inadequacy in such mobilization 
base as to the capabilities and capacities of a shipyard or shipyards 
at a strategic point, and after taking into consideration the benefits 
accruing from standardized construction, the conditions of unemploy-
ment, and the needs and reasonable requirements of all shipyards, 
may, with the approval of the President, allocate such construction, 
reconstruction, reconditioning, or remodeling to such yard or yards 
in such manner as it may be determined to be fair, just, and reasonable 
to all sections of the country, subject to the provisions of this sub-
section." 
Approved July 26, 1956. 
Shipbuilding, 
Capability s u r -
2 Stat. 957. 
46 u s e 1152. 
46 use 
1204. 1159, 
1161. 
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Public Law 806 
CHAPTER 738 
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July 26, 1956 
To provide for the disposal of the Government-owned synthetic rubber research 
[S. 3832] 
laboratories at Akron, Ohio. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Govern- ia^borl'to*ri"'* 
ment laboratories at Akron, Ohio, now under control of the National Akron, ohior 
"' 
Science Foundation are hereby transferred to the General Services '^^*^°*^' 
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