An Act to amend certain provisions of existing law concerning the relationship of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Army and Navy so they will apply with similar effect to the Air Force
PL 89-657 (H.R.722), enacted 10/14/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-657-OCT. 14, 1966 
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Public Law 89-657 
AN ACT 
October 14, 1966 
To amend certain i)rovisions of existing law concerning the relationship of the 
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Environmental Science Services Administration to the Army and Navy so 
they will apply with similar effect to the Air Force. 
Environmental 
Science Services 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 16 of 
the Act of May 22, 1917, chapter 20, as amended (33 U.S.C. 855, Admi'nrstra'tion 
858), is amended as follows: 
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(1) The first paragraph (33 U.S.C. 855) is amended to read as autho^riz^orr^' 
follows : 
40 Stat. 87. 
'"The President is authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient 
national emergency exists, to transfer to the service and jurisdiction 
of a military department such vessels, equipment, stations, and com-
missioned officers of the Environmental Science Services Administra-
tion as he may deem to the best interest of the country, and after such 
transfer all expenses connected therewith shall be defraj^ed out of the 
appropriations for the department to which transfer is made: Pro-
vided^ That such vessels, equipment, stations, and commissioned 
officers shall be returned to the Environmental Science Services 
Administration when such national emergency ceases, in the opinion 
of the President, and nothing in this section shall be construed as 
transferring the Environmental Science Services Administration or 
any of its functions from the Department of Commerce except in 
time of national emergency and to the extent herein provided: 
Provided further^ That any of the commissioned officers of the Envi-
ronmental Science Services Administration who may be transferred as 
provided in this section, shall, while under the jurisdiction of a mili-
tary department, have proper military status and shall be subject to 
the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Army, 
Navy, or Air Force, as the case may be, insofar as the same may be 
applicable to persons whose retention permanently in the military 
service of the United States is not contemplated by law." 
(2) The last paragraph (33 U.S.C. 858) is amended to read as 
follows: 
"The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall 
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jointly prescribe regulations governing the duties to be performed by ^
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the Environmental Science Services Administration in time of war, 
and for the cooperation of that service with the military departments 
in time of peace in preparation for its duties in war, which regulations 
shall not be effective unless approved by each of those Secretaries, and 
included therein may be rules and regulations for making reports and 
communications between a military department and the Environ-
mental Science Services Administration." 
SEC. 2. Section 10 of the Act of January 19, 1942, chapter 6, as 
amended (33 U.S.C. 868a), is amended to read as follows: 
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"Commissioned officers, ships' officers, and members of the crews of Purchase o
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vessels of the Environmental Science Services Administration shall be supplies. 
permitted to purchase commissary and quartermaster supplies as 
far as available from the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps 
at the prices charged officers and enlisted men of those services." 
SEC. 3. Section 1 
of the Act of December 3, 1942, chapter 670, as 
amended (33 U.S.C. 854a-l), is amended to read as follows: 
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"Personnel of the Environmental Science Services Administration 
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shall be subject in like manner and to the same extent as personnel 
of the Navy to all laws authorizing temporary appointment or advance-
motions; limita-
tions. 
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ment of commissioned officers in time of war or national emergency 
subject to the following limitations: 
"(1) Commissioned officers in the service of a military depart-
ment, under the provisions of section 16 of the Act of Maj 22,1917 
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(40 gtat. 87), as amended, may, upon the recommendation of the 
Secretary of the military department concerned, be temporarily 
promoted to higher ranks or grades. 
" (2) Commissioned officers in the service of the Environmental 
Science Services Administration may be temporarily promoted 
to fill vacancies in ranks and grades caused by the transfer of 
commissioned officers to tlie service and jurisdiction of a military 
department under the provisions of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 
1917 (40 Stat. 87), as amended. 
"(3) Temporary appointments may be rilade in all grades to 
which original appointments in the Environmental Science 
Services Administration are authorized: Provided, That the num-
ber of officers holding temporary appointments shall not exceed 
the number of officers transferred to a military department under 
the provisions of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 
87), as amended." 
Approved October 14, 1966. 
Public Law 89-658 
October 14, 1966 
A N A C T 
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To establish a contiguous fishery zone beyond the territorial sea of the United 
States. 
Be if enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Fisheries zone 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there is es-
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tablished a fisheries zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United 
sea. 
States. The United States will exercise the same exclusive rights 
in respect to fisheries in the zone as it has in its territorial sea, subject 
to the continuation of traditional fishing by foreign states within 
this zone as may be recognized by the United States. 
SEC. 2. The fisheries zone has as its inner boundary the outer limits 
of the territorial sea and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so 
that each point on the line is nine nautical miles from the nearest 
point in the inner boundary. 
SEC. 3. Whenever the President determines that a portion of the 
fisheries zone conflicts with the territorial waters or fisheries zone of 
Seaward bound- auothcr couutry, he may establish a seaward^boundary for such portion 
of the zone in substitution for the seaward boundary described in 
section 2. 
SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as extending the 
jurisdiction of the States to the natural resources beneath and in the 
waters within the fisheries zone established by this Act or as diminish-
ing their jurisdiction to such resources beneath and in the waters of the 
territorial seas of the United States. 
Approved October 14, 1966. 
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