An Act to restore eligibility of certain citizens or subjects of Germany or Japan to receive benefits under veterans laws
PL 83-467 (H.R.8488), enacted 07/01/1954

68 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 467-JULY 1, 1954 
377 
and increase markets for fishery products of domestic origin and (3) 
to conduct any biological, technological, or other research pertaining 
to American fisheries. 
"(b) For the purposes of this section, any agency of the United cds^lsseisf etc^ 
States, or any corporation wholly owned by the United States, is 
authorized to transfer, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, 
any vessels or equipment excess to its needs required by the Secretary 
of the Interior for the activities, studies, and research authorized 
herein. 
"(c) In carrying out the purposes and objectives of this section, ti^,'^etZ^°°^^'^°' 
the Secretary of the Interior is directed as far as practicable to co-
operate with other appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, 
with State or local governmental agencies, private agencies, organi-
zations, or individuals, having jurisdiction over or an interest in fish 
or fishery commodities and he is authorized to appoint an advisory n,-^*^'^^®°'^ '^'""" 
committee of the American fisheries industry to advise him in the 
formulation of policy, rules and regulations pertaining to requests 
for assistance, and other matters. 
"(d) The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to retrans- fu^dV'""^'*'^ °^ 
fer any of the funds not to exceed $1,500,000 to be made available under 
this section to the Secretary of Agriculture to be used for the purposes 
specified in section 1 of this Act, and only such funds as are thus trans-
ferred shall be used for the purposes specified in section 1 of this Act 
with respect to domestically produced fishery products. 
"(e) The separate fund created for the use of the Secretary of fui^Js"^^^^*^ °^ 
the Interior under section 2 (a) of this Act and the annual accruals 
thereto shall be available until expended, except (1) that not more 
than $3,000,000 be spent in any fiscal year and (2) that the balance of 
the fund shall not exceed $5,000,000 at the end of any fiscal year, and 
the Secretary of the Interior shall retransfer the funds in excess of 
said $5,000,000 balance to the Secretary of Agriculture to be used 
for the purposes specified in section 32 of the Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 
774; 7 U. S. C. 612c), as amended. 
"(f) The Secretary of the Interior shall make a report to the appro- 
Report, 
priate committees of Congress annually on the use of the separate 
fund created under section 2 of this Act." 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
Public Law 467 
CHAPTER 448 
AN ACT 
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To restore eligibility of certain citizens or subjects o^ Germany or Japan to 
[H. R. 8488] 
receive benefits under veterans' laws. 
Be it enacted J)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseivJbled^ That any person who, an^le™cltil2ns'!^^ 
but for the last proviso of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the 
VA benefits.* 
payment of pension or other benefits withheld from persons for the 
period they were residing in countries occupied by enemy forces in 
World War II", approved August 7, 1946 (Public Law 622, Seventy-
ninth Congress), would be entitled to compensation or pension bene- 
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fits payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration 
shall be entitled to such benefits from the date of enactment of this 
Act, if claim therefor is filed within one year after such date, or from 
the date of claim, if claim therefor is filed more than one year after 
such date. 
Approved July 1, 1954.