An Act to amend the Railway Labor Act in order to provide for establishment of special adjustment boards upon the request either of representatives of employees or of carriers to resolve disputes otherwise referable to the National Railroad Adjustment Board, and to make all awards of such Boardfinal
PL 89-456 (H.R.706), enacted 06/20/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-455-JUNE 18, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 8. For the purposes of this Act the term "marine science" 
shall be deemed to apply to oceanographic and scientific endeavors 
and disciplines, and engineering and technology in and with relation 
to the marine environment; and the term "marine environment" shall 
be deemed to include (a) the oceans, (b) the Continental Shelf of the 
United States, (c) the Great Lakes, (d) seabed and subsoil of the 
submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of the United States to the 
depth of two hundred meters, or beyond that limit, to where the 
depths of the superjacent waters admit of the exploitation of the 
natural resources of such areas, (e) the seabed and subsoil of similar 
submarine areas adjacent to the coasts of islands which comprise 
United States territory, and (f) the resources thereof. 
AUTHORIZATION 
SEC. 9. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this Act, but sums appropriated for 
any one fiscal year shall not exceed $1,500,000. 
Approved June 17, 1966. 
June 18, 1966 
[H. R. 11748] 
Public Law 89-455 
AN ACT 
To amend section 111 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the prepay-
ment of certain expenses associated with the travel of veterans to or from a 
Veterans' Administration facility or other place, in connection with vocational 
rehabilitation or counseling, or for the purpose of examination, treatment, 
or care. 
Veterans. 
Travel allow-
ances. 
72 Stat. 1113. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatioes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection 
lll(b^ of title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) Payment of the following expenses or allowances in connec-
tion with vocational rehabilitation, counseling, or upon termination 
of examination, treatment, or care, may be made before the completion 
of travel: 
"(1) the mileage allowance authorized by subsection 
(a) 
hereof; 
"(2) actual local travel expenses; 
"(3) the expense of hiring an automobile or ambulance, or the 
fee authorizecT for the services of a nonemployee attendant." 
Approved June 18, 1966. 
June 20, 1966 
[H. R. 706] 
Public Law 89-456 
AN ACT 
To amend the Railway Labor Act in order to provide for establishment of 
special adjustment boards upon the request either of representatives of 
employees or of carriers to resolve disputes otherwise referable to the 
National Railroad Adjustment Board, and to make all awards of such Board 
final. 
Railway labor. 
Special adjust-
ment boards. 
48 Stat. 1193. 
45 u s e 153. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That section 3, 
Second, of the Railway Labor Act is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following: 
"If written request is made upon any individual carrier by the rep-
resentative of any craft or class of employees of such carrier for the 
establishment of a special board of adjustment to resolve disputes 
otherwise referable to the Adjustment Board, or any dispute which 
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has been pending before the Adjustment Board for twelve months 
from the date the dispute (claim) is received by the Board, or if any 
carrier makes such a request upon any such representative, the carrier 
or the representative upon whom such request is made shall join in an 
agreement establishing such a board within thirty days from the date 
such request is made. The cases which may be considered by such 
board shall be defined in the agreement establishing it. 
Such board 
shall consist of one person designated by the carrier and one person 
designated by the representative of the employees. If such carrier or 
such representative fails to agree upon the establishment of such a 
board as provided herein, or to exercise its rights to designate a mem-
ber of the board, the carrier or representative making the request for 
the establishment of the special board may request the Mediation 
Board to designate a member of the special board on behalf of the 
carrier or representative upon whom such request was made. 
Upon 
receipt of a request for such designation the Mediation Board shall 
promptly make such designation and shall select an individual asso-
ciated in interest with the carrier or representative he is to represent, 
who, with the member appointed by the carrier or representative 
requesting the establishment of the special board, shall constitute the 
board. 
Each member of the board shall be compensated by the party 
compensation of 
he is to represent. 
The members of the board so designated shall ""^^ 
determine all matters not previously agreed upon by the carrier and 
the representative of the employees with respect to the establishment 
and jurisdiction of the board. 
If they are unable to agree such mat-
ters shall be determined by a neutral member of the board selected or 
appointed and compensated in the same manner as is hereinafter pro-
vided with respect to situations where the members of the board are 
unable to agree upon an award. 
Such neutral member shall cease to 
be a member of the board when he has determined such matters. 
If 
with respect to any dispute or group of disputes the members of the 
board designated by the carrier and the representative are unable to 
agree upon an award disposing of the dispute or group of disputes 
they shall by mutual agreement select a neutral person to be a member 
of the board for the consideration and disposition of such dispute or 
group of disputes. In the event the members of the board designated 
by the parties are unable, within ten days after their failure to agree 
upon an award, to agree upon the selection of such neutral person, 
either member of the board may request the Mediation Board to 
appoint such neutral person and upon receipt of such request the 
Mediation Board shall promptly make such appointment. 
The neu-
tral person so selected or appointed shall be compensated and reim-
bursed for expenses by the Mediation Board. 
Any two members of 
the board shall be competent to render an award. 
Such awards shall 
be final and binding upon both parties to the dispute and if in favor 
of the petitioner, shall direct the other party to comply therewith on 
or before the day named. 
Compliance with such awards shall be 
enforcible by proceedings in the United States district courts in the 
same manner and subject to the same provisions that apply to pro-
ceedings for enforcement of compliance with awards of the Adju::t-
ment Board." 
SEC. 2. (a) The second sentence of section 3, First, (m), of the 
45us^c/^^^^ 
Railway Labor Act is amended by striking out ", except insofar as 
they shall contain a money award . 
(b) Section 3, First, (o), of the Railway Labor Act is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "In the event 
any division determines that an award favorable to the petitioner 
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Judicial review. 
62 Stat. 929. 
should not be made in any dispute referred to it, the division shall 
make an order to the petitioner stating such determination." 
(c) The second sentence of section 3, First, (p), of such Act is 
amended by striking out "shall be prima facie evidence of the facts 
therein stated" and inserting in lieu thereof "shall be conclusive on 
the parties". 
(d) The last sentence of section 3, First, (p), of such Act is amended 
by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: 
": Provided^ however. That such order may not be set aside except 
for failure of the division to comply with the requirements of this 
Act, for failure of the order to conform, or confine itself, to matters 
within the scope of the division's jurisdiction, or for fraud or cor-
ruption by a member of the division making the order". 
(e) Section 3, First, of such Act is further amended by redesig-
nating paragraphs (q) through (w) thereof as paragraphs (r) 
through (x), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph (p) the 
following .new paragraph: 
"(q) If any employee or group of employees, or any carrier, is 
aggrieved by the failure of any division of the Adjustment Board to 
make an award in a dispute referred to it, or is aggrieved by any of 
the terms of an award or by the failure of the division to include 
certain terms in such award, then such employee or group of employees 
or carrier may file in any LTnited States district court in which a peti-
tion under paragraph (p) could be filed, a petition for review of the 
division's order. 
A copy of the petition shall be forthwith trans-
mitted by the clerk of the court to the Adjustment Board. The Adjust-
ment Board shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on 
which it based its action. 
The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm 
the order of the division or to set it aside, in whole or in part, or it 
may remand the proceeding to the division for such further action as 
it may direct. 
On such review, the findings and order of the division 
shall be conclusive on the parties, except that the order of the division 
may be set aside, in whole or in part, or remanded to the division, for 
failure of the division to comply with the requirements of this Act, for 
failure of the order to conform, or confine itself, to matters within the 
scope of the division's jurisdiction, or for fraud or corruption by a 
member of the division making the order. The judgment of the court 
shall be subject to review as provided in sections 1291 and 1254 of 
title 28, United States Code." 
Approved June 20, 1966. 
June 20, 1966 
[H. R. 6646] 
Public Law 89-457 
AN ACT 
To amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act pertaining to the leasing of 
public lands to States and their political subdivisions. 
Recreation and 
Public Purposes 
Act, amendment. 
68 Stat. 174. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatl'ves of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 2(b) of 
the Act of June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 741), as amended (43 U.S.C. 869-1 
(b)), is further amended by substituting "twenty-five" for "twenty". 
SEC. 2. Upon application by a lessee holding a lease under the Rec-
reation and Public Purposes Act the Secretary of the Interior may 
enter into a new lease for a term not to exceed twenty-five years from 
the date of the new lease. 
Approved June 20, 1966.