An Act to affirm the temporary appointments of certain officers of the Navy, and for other purposes
PL 83-407 (S.3524), enacted 06/18/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 407-JUNE 18, 1954 
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Preference. 
Receipts. 
Rate schedules, approval by the Federal Power Commission. 
Rate schedules shall be 
drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application 
of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the 
project) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, 
including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power 
by the Secretary, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, over a 
reasonable period of years. Preference in the sale of such power and 
energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives. 
The Secretary 
is authorized, from funds to be appropriated by the Congress, to con-
struct or acquire, by purchase or other agreement, only such transmis-
sion lines and related facilities as may be necessary in order to make 
the power and energy generated at said project available in wholesale 
quantities for sale on fair and reasonable terms and conditions to 
facilities owned by the Federal Government, public bodies, coopera-
tives, and privately owned companies. 
SEC. 2. All receipts from the sale of electric power and energy 
disposed of by the Secretary pursuant to this Act shall be covered into 
the Treasury of the United States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts 
as shall also moneys received from the Government of Mexico for any 
energy which might be delivered to that Government by the United 
States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission 
pursuant to any special agreement concluded in accordance with 
article 19 of the said treaty. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary is authorized to perform any and all acts, 
including the acquisition of rights and property, and to enter into such 
agreements as may be appropriate for the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of this Act applicable to him; and with respect to construc-
tion and supply contracts and the acquisition, exchange, and disposi-
tion of lands and other property, and the relocation thereof, the Secre-
tary shall have the same authority which he has under sections 12 and 
14 of the Eeclamation Project Act of 1939. 
Approved June 18, 1954. 
59 Stat. 1251. 
Authority of Sec 
retary. 
S3 Stat. 1197. 
43USC388, 389. 
Public Law 407 
CHAPTER 311 
June 18, 1954 
AN ACT 
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To affirm the temporary- appointments of certain officers of the Navy, and for 
other purposes. 
Temporary Naval 
appointments. 
Affirmation. 
61 Stat. 833. 
34 u s e 21la. 
34 u s e 350-350k. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the OifScer 
Personnel Act of 1947, as amended, is further amended— 
(a) Adding to section 304 a new subsection (t) as follows: 
"(t) The President is authorized to affirm within one year after the 
enactment of this amendatory Act the temporary appointment of an 
officer serving in a grade by virtue of temporary appointment therein 
under the Act of July 24,1941 (55 Stat. 603), as amended, except that 
this authority shall not apply to temporary appointments which by 
their terms are of limited duration. 
Upon affirmation the appointment 
shall thereafter be considered as having been effected under authority 
contained in this Act and service in grade under the affirmed appoint-
ment shall be computed from the date of the appointment to the grade 
made under the Act of July 24, 1941 (55 Stat. 603), as amended. 
Affirmations made under this subsection shall not be subject to qualifi-
cation by examination. All affirmations of temporary appointments in 
grades below that of rear admiral effected under this subsection shall 
be regarded as having been made with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, 
The date of rank and registered number of an officer 
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concerned may be readjusted as necessary to maintain for him the 
precedence evidenced by his position on the appropriate lineal list." 
(b) Adding to section 312 new subsections (1) and (m) as follows: 
"(1) Officers of the grades of lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) 
except lieutenants of the Nurse Corps, who after March 29, 1951, have 
twice been considered for selection for promotions under the Act of 
July 24, 1941 (55 Stat. 603), as amended, and who on the date of 
enactment of this amendatory Act have not been recommended for 
promotion may be honorably discharged from the Navy as soon as 
practicable if they request discharge within a period of six months 
after the date of enactment of this amendatory Act. 
Such officers 
upon discharge pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be 
entitled to receive a lump-sum payment computed as prescribed in 
subsection (h) of this section. 
" (m) The acceptance of a lump-sum payment under subsections (h) 
(1) of this section shall not deprive a person of any retirement 
or 
benefits from the Government to which he would otherwise become 
entitled, but there shall be deducted from such retirement benefits to 
such a person such portion thereof as is attributable to the active service 
in respect of which lump-sum payment shall have been made to him 
under subsections (h) or (1) until the total of the deductions so made 
equals the total of such lump-sum payment." 
(c) Adding to section 314 a new subsection (v) as follows: 
" (v) The provisions of subsection 304 (t) relating to the affirmation 
of temporary appointments made under the Act of July 24, 1941 (55 
Stat. 603), as amended, shall not apply to officers of the Marine Corps." 
Approved June 18, 1954. 
34 u s e 41 Oj. 
Discharge on re-
quest. 
Lump-sum p a y -
ment. 
34 u s e 626-1. 
Ante, p. 256. 
Nonapplicability. 
Public Law 408 
CHAPTER 312 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of January 6, 1951 (64 Stat. 1221), by authorizing certain 
rehabilitation at the United States Military Academy. 
June 18, 1954 
[S« 3446] 
Be if enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 101, 
title I, of the Act approved January 6, 1951 (64 Stat. 1221), is hereby 
amended by inserting immediately following the words "Facilities for 
Army Field Force stations, $79,722,525" a comma and the following: 
"of which $497,000 shall be available for the repair, rehabilitation, and 
modification of cadet barracks, buildings numbered 737 and 747 at the 
United States Military Academy, New York". 
Approved June 18, 1954. 
Public Law 409 
CHAPTER 313 
AN ACT 
To provide for the transfer of the site of the original Fort Buford, North 
Dakota, to the State of North Dakota. 
June 18, 1954 
[H.R. 107] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That notwithstand-
ing the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1950 (64 Stat. 98; 40 U. S. C. 
440) the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to consent to a grant, 
donation, and conveyance by the North Dakota Rural Rehabilitation 
Corporation to the State of North Dakota, for the use by the North 
Dakota State Historical Society, of that portion of the site of the 
F o r t 
B u f o r d , 
N. Dak. 
Conveyance. 
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