An Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes
PL 86-451 (H.R.10234), enacted 05/13/1960

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May 13, 1960 
[H. R. 10234] 
Public Law 86-451 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of Commerce and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending June 30,1961, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following ci^me/cV^and Re-^ 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise lated Agencies Ap-
appropriated, for the Department of Commerce and related agencies Piip'^atxon Act, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1961, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPAETMENT OF COMMERCE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the general administration of the 
Department of Commerce, $2,660,875. 
OFFICE OF FIELD SERVICES 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to operate and main-
tain field offices for the collection and dissemination of information 
useful in the development and improvement of commerce throughout 
the United States and its possessions, $2,584,000. 
AVIATION WAR RISK INSURANCE REVOLVING F U N D 
The Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds available pursuant to section 
1306 of the Act of August 23, 1958 (72 Stat. 803), and in accordance 
with section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended (31 U.S.C. 849), as may be necessary in carrying out the 
programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for aviation 
war risk insurance activities under said Act (72 Stat. 800). 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
49 u s e IS36. 
61 Stat. 584. 
49 u s e 1531. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, and publishing 
current census statistics provided for by law^, including enumerators 
at rates to be fixed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, 
as amended, $8,898,500. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
1 9 5 8 CENSUSES OF BUSINESS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 
For an additional amount for expenses necessary for preparing for, 
taking, compiling, and publishing the 1958 censuses of business, manu-
factures, and mineral industries as authorized by law, including per-
sonal services at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce with-
out regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and additional 
compensation of Federal employees temporarily detailed for field work 
under this appropriation, $1,125,000, to remain available until 
December 31, 1961. 
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EIGHTEENTH DECENNIAL CENSUS 
For an additional amount for expenses necessary for preparing for, 
taking, compiling, and publishing the Eighteenth Decennial Census, 
as authorized by law, including personal services at rates to be fixed 
by the Secretary of Commerce, without regard to the Classification 
5 uicfVon'^note ^^^' ^^ 1^49, as amended, and additional compensation of Federal em-
ployees temporarily detailed for field work under this appropriation; 
$17,500,000, to remain available until December 31,1962. 
19 62 CENSUS OF GOVERNMENTS 
For expenses necessary for preparing for, taking, compiling, and 
publishing the 1962 census of governments as authorized by law, in-
cluding personal services at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Com-
merce without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, 
and additional compensation of Federal employees temporarily de-
tailed for field work under this appropriation, $90,000, to remain 
available until June 30, 1964. 
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 
SALARIES A N D EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of 
61 Stat. 787. 
August 6, 1947 (33 U.S.C. 883a-883i), including uniforms or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as 
68 Stat. 1114. 
amended (5 U.S.C. 2131) ; lease of sites and the erection of temporary 
buildings for tide, magnetic or seismological observations; hire of 
aircraft; operation, maintenance, and repair of an airplane; extra 
compensation at not to exceed $15 per month to each member of the 
crew of a vessel when assigned duties as recorder or instrument ob-
server, and at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees 
of other Federal agencies while making oceanographic or magnetic 
observations or tending seismographs; pay, allowances, gratuities, 
transportation of dependents and household effects, and payment of 
funeral expenses, as authorized bv law, for not to exceed an annual 
average of 185 commissioned officers on the active list; payments 
37 usc'an note ^ii^^i^i" ^^6 Uiiiform Services Contingency Option Act of 1953; and pay 
of commissioned officers retired in accordance with law; $17,400,000, 
of which $759,000 shall be available for retirement pay of commis-
sioned officers: Provided, 
That during the current fiscal year, this 
appropriation shall be reimbursed for press costs and costs of paper 
for charts published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey and furnished 
for the official use of the military departments of the Department of 
Defense: Provided further, 
That the property known as the Fleet 
Landing Site at foot of York Street, Norfolk, Virginia, may be trans-
ferred, without reimbursement, from the Department of Defense to 
the Department of Commerce. 
CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT 
For expenses necessary for construction and equipment of a seismo-
logical laboratory, as authorized by the Act of August 6, 1947 (33 
61 Stat. 788. 
U.S.C. 8831), $340,000, to remain available until expended. 
CONSTRUCTION O F SUE^'EYING SHIPS 
For necessary expenses for the design, supervision, construction, 
equipping, and outfitting of surveying vessels, as authorized by the 
Act of August 6,1947 (33 U.S.C. 883i), $4,700,000, to remain available 
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until expended: Provided, That the unexpended balance of funds 
heretofore appropriated for "Construction of a surveying ship" shall 
be merged with this appropriation. 
BUSINESS AND DEFENSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Business and Defense Services Ad-
ministration, $4,069,000. 
BUREAU OF FOREIGN COMMERCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, in-
cluding the purchase of commercial and trade reports, $2,761,600. 
EXPORT CONTROL 
SOUSCapp. 2021 
For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Export 
Control Act of 1949, as amended, relating to export controls, includ- 
H f^i^- '• 
mg awards oi compensation to informers under said Act and as note. 
authorized by the Act of August 13,1953 (22 U.S.C. 401), $2,800,000, 
67 stat. 577. 
of which not to exceed $900,000 may be advanced to the Bureau of 
Customs, Treasury Department, for enforcement of the export control 
program, and of which not to exceed $75,000 may be advanced to the 
appropriation for "Salaries and expenses" under "General adminis-
tration": Provided, That this appropriation shall be effective only 
upon the enactment into law during the Eighty-sixth Congress of 
legislation extending the provisions of the Export Control Act of 1949, 
as amended, relating to export controls. 
OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Business Economics, 
$1,405,500. 
MARITIME ACTIVITIES 
SHIP CONSTRUCTION 
For construction-differential subsidy and cost of national-defense 
features incident to construction of ships for operation in foreign 
commerce (46 U.S.C. 1152, 1154) ; for construction-differential sub- 
49 stat. 1996. 
sidy and cost of national-defense features incident to the reconstruc-
tion and reconditioning of ships under title V of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1154); for acquisition of used ships 
pursuant to section 510 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended 
(46 U.S.C. 1160) ; and (not to exceed $5,900,000) for research, develop- g^sa s^tat. iiss; 68 
ment, and design expenses incident to new and advanced ship design, 
machinery, and equipment; $126,200,000, to remain available until ex-
pended : Provided, That transfers may be made to the appropriation 
for the current fiscal year for "Salaries and expenses" for administra-
tive and warehouse expenses (not to exceed $2,900,000) and for reserve 
fleet expenses (not to exceed $500,000), and any such transfers shall 
be without regard to the limitations under that appropriation on the 
amounts available for such expenses. 
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OPERATING-DIFFERENTIAL 
SUBSIDIES 
For the payment of obligations incurred for operating-differential 
subsidies granted on or after January 1, 1947, as authorized by the 
46 us^c^T/v 
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, and in appropriations here-
1182. 
' tofore made to the United States Maritime Commission, $150,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided^ That no contracts shall 
be executed during the current fiscal year by the Federal Maritime 
Board which will obligate the Government to pay operating-differ-
ential subsidy on more than two thousand four hundred voyages in 
any one calendar year, including voyages covered by contracts in effect 
at the beginning of the current fiscal year, of which one hundred and 
fifty shall be for companies which have not held contracts prior to 
July 1, 1959, and seventy-five shall be for companies operating into 
or out of the Great Lakes. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for carrying into effect the Merchant Marine 
46 use nil' 
^^^' 1^^^? ^^^ other laws administered by the Federal Maritime Board 
and the Maritime Administration, $14,500,000, within limitations as 
follows: 
Administrative expenses, including not to exceed $1,125 for enter-
tainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized 
by the Maritime Administrator, and not to exceed $1,250 for repre-
sentation allowances, $8,045,000; 
Maintenance of shipyard facilities and operation of warehouses, 
$1,253,000; 
Reserve fleet expenses, $5,202,000. 
MARITIME TRAINING 
For training cadets as officers of the Merchant Marine at the Mer-
chant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, including pay 
and allowances for personnel of the United States Maritime Service 
as authorized by law (46 U.S.C. 1126, 63 Stat. 802, 64 Stat. 794, 66 
Jl 
"^^ "^ ^' Stat. 79, and 70 Stat. 25); not to exceed $2,500 for contingencies for 
the Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine Academy, to 
be expended in his discretion; purchase of four passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; and uniform and textbook allowances 
for cadet midshipmen, at an average yearly cost of not to exceed $300 
per cadet; $3,195,000: Provided^ That except as herein provided for 
uniform and textbook allowances this appropriation shall not be used 
for compensation or allowances for cadets: Provided^ That not to 
exceed $100,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation 
"Ship construction (liquidation of contract authorization) maritime 
activities," may be. transferred to this appropriation for the purpose 
of providing furnishings and equipment for the Memorial Chapel at 
Kings Point, New York (62 Stat. 172). 
STATE MARINE SCHOOLS 
For financial assistance to State marine schools and the students 
thereof as authorized by the Maritime Academy Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 
4 6 use 138 1 622-624), $1,270,000, of which $250,000 is for maintenance and repair 
of vessels loaned by the United States for use in connection with such 
State marine schools, and $1,020,000, to remain available until 
expended, is for liquidation of obligations incurred under authority 
granted by said Act, to enter into contracts to make payments for ex-
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penses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools, and 
to pay allowances for uniforms, textbooks, and subsistence of cadets 
at State marine schools. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—MARITIME ACTIVITIES 
No additional vessel shall be allocated under charter, nor shall any 
vessel be continued under charter by reason of any extension of charter-
ing authority beyond June 30, 1949, unless the charterer shall agree 
that the Maritime Administration shall have no obligation upon rede-
livery to accept or pay for consumable stores, bunkers and slop-
chest items, except with respect to such minimum amounts of bunkers 
as the Maritime Administration considers advisable to be retained on 
the vessel and that prior to such redelivery all consumable stores, slop-
chest items, and bunkers over and above such minimums shall be re-
moved from the vessel by the charterer at his own expense. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Maritime 
Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make 
necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy 
involving Government property under control of the Maritime 
Administration, and payments received by the Maritime Administra-
tion for utilities, services, and repairs so furnished or made shall be 
credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: Provided^ 
That rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy on 
account of items other than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be 
covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
No obligations shall be incurred during the current fiscal year from 
the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 
^| st^t^. ^i.987. 
or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and limitations contained 
in this Act, or in any prior appropriation Act, and all receipts which 
otherwise would be deposited to the credit of said fund shall be 
covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for administrative expenses 
to be determined in the manner set forth under the title "General 
expenses" in the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water 
of the Interstate Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947). 
PATENT OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Patent Office, including services as 
authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), 
6° stat. sio. 
at rates for individuals not to exceed $50 per diem (not to exceed 
$25,000); and defense of suits instituted agamst the Commissioner of 
Patents; $22,567,500. 
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BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS 
LIMITATION ON GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Necessary expenses of administration and research (not to exceed 
$29,591,500), including purchase of thirty passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, shall be paid, in accordance with law, from ap-
propriations made available by this Act to the Bureau of Public 
Roads and from advances and reimbursements received by the Bureau 
of Public Roads. 
Of the total amount available from appropriations of the Bureau 
of Public Roads for general administrative and research expenses 
pursuant to the provisions of title 23, United States Code, section 
104(a), $100,000 shall be available for carrying out the provisions of 
72 Stat. 889.914. title 23, United States Code, section 309. 
REPAYABLE ADVANCES TO T H E H I G H W A Y TRUST F U N D 
For repayable advances to the "Highway trust fund" during the 
current fiscal year, as authorized by section 209(d) of the Highway 
Revenue Act of 1956 (70 Stat. 399), $160,000,000. 
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS (TRUST F U N D ) 
72 Stat. 885. 
For Carrying out the provisions of title 23, United States Code, 
which are attributable to Federal-aid highways, to remain available 
until expended, $2,688,691,500, or so much thereof as may be avail-
able in and derived from the "Highway trust fund"; which sum is 
composed of $1,099,308,235.53, the balance of the amount authorized 
for the fiscal year 1959,' and $1,579,383,264.47 (or so much thereof as 
may be available in and derived from the "Highway Trust Fund"), 
a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 
1960, and $10,000,000 for reimbursement of the sums expended for the 
repair or reconstruction of highways and bridges which have been 
damaged or destroyed by floods, hurricanes, or landslides, as pro-
72 Stat. 901. 
vided by title 23, United States Code, section 125. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS 
Not to exceed $10,000 may be expended during the current fiscal 
year for services of individuals employed pursuant to section 15 of 
60 Stat. 810. 
the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates in excess of $50 per 
diem. 
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS 
RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 
For expenses necessary in performing the functions authorized by 
31 Stat. 1449. 
the Act of March 3,1901, as amended (15 U.S.C. 27l-278e), including 
general administration; operation, maintenance, alteration, and pro-
tection of grounds and facilities; and improvement and construction 
of facilities as authorized by the Act of September 2,1958 (15 U.S.C. 
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72 Stat. 1711. 
72 Stat. 1711. 
278d); $18,800,000, of which not to exceed $1,275,000 shall be avail-
able for payments to the "Working capital fund", National Bureau of 
Standards, for additional capital: Provided^ That during the current 
fiscal year the maximum base rate of compensation for employees ap-
pointed pursuant to the Act of September 2, 1958 (15 U.S.C. 278ej, 
shall be equivalent to the entrance rate of GS-12. 
PLANT AND FACILITIES 
For expenses incurred, as authorized by section 1 of the Act of 
September 2,1958 (15 U.S.C. 278d-278e), in the construction, improve-
ment, alteration, or emergency repair of buildings, grounds, and other 
facilities; in the design of a nuclear research reactor and associated 
laboratories; and in the procurement and installation of special re-
search equipment and facilities therefor; $2,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES 
For an additional amount for "Construction of facilities", including 
construction, equipment, and expenses of occupying the facilities, 
$23,500,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ That not 
to exceed $2,500,000 shall be available for payment to the "Working 
capital fund," National Bureau of Standards, for additional capital 
for purchase of equipment. 
WEATHER BUREAU 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Weather Bureau, including main-
tenance and operation of aircraft; not to exceed $25,000 for services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
55a) ; and not to exceed $10,000 for maintenance of a printing office 
^o stat. a lo. 
in the city of Washington, as authorized by law; $46,042,900: Pro-
vided^ That, during the current fiscal year, the maximum amount 
authorized under section 3(a) of the Act of June 2, 1948 (15 U.S.C. 
327), for extra compensation to employees of other Government agen- 
^2 stat. 286. 
cies for taking and transmitting meteorological observations, shall be 
$5 per day; and the maximum base rate of pay authorized under sec-
tion 3 (b) of said Act, for employees conducting meteorological investi-
gations in the Arctic region, shall be $6,500 per annum, except that not 
more than five of such employees at any one time may receive a base 
rate of $9,000 per annum, without regard to the Classification Act of 
t^,i^^V«''^'*' 
1949, as amended. 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For expenses necessary for the conduct of research by the Weather 
Bureau, including development and service testing of equipment; 
operation and maintenance of aircraft including the transfer from 
the Department of Defense, without payment therefor, of one aircraft; 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
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not to exceed $25,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the 
60 Stat. 810. 
Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a) ; and for acquisition, establish-
ment, and relocation of research facilities and related equipment; 
$6,262,500. 
ESTABLISHMENT OF METEOROLOGICAL FACILITIES 
For an additional amount for the acquisition, establishment, and 
relocation of operational facilities and related equipment, including 
the alteration and modernization of existing facilities; $5,250,000, to 
remain available until June 30, 1963: Provided, That the appropria-
tions heretofore granted under this head shall be merged with this 
appropriation. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations 
and funds available to the Department of Commerce shall be available 
for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (5 U.S.C. 
63 Stat. 907. 
596a), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by said Act. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations in this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
60 Stat. 810. 
(5 U.S.C. 55a), but, unless otherwise specified, at rates for individuals 
not to exceed $50 per diem; and uniforms, or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
2131). 
TITLE II—THE PANAMA CANAL 
68 Stat. 1114. 
CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For operating expenses necessary for the Canal Zone Government, 
including operation of the Postal Service of the Canal Zone; hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances therefor, as au-
thorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
2131); expenses incident to conducting hearings on the Isthmus; 
expenses of special training of employees of the Canal Zone Govern-
s use 2301 note, meut as authorized by law (63 Stat. 602; 72 Stat. 327); contingencies 
of the Governor; residence for the Governor; medical aid and sup-
port of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent per-
sons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their de-
portation when practicable; and payments of not to exceed $50 in 
any one case to persons within the Government service who shall 
furnish blood for transfusions; $18,850,000. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For acquisition of land and land under water and acquisition, con-
struction, and replacement of improvements, facilities, structures, and 
equipment, as authorized by law (2 C.Z. Code, sees. 3 and 16; 63 Stat. 
600), including the purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only, of which seven are for police-type use 
without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the cur-
rent fiscal year; and expenses incident to the retirement of sur*h assets; 
$6,800,000, to remain available until expended. 
61 Stat. 584. 
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P A N A M A CANAL COMPANY 
CORPORATION 
The Panama Canal Company is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authoritj'^ 
available to it and in accord with law, and to make such contracts 
and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided 
by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as 
amended, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth 
in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation, except 
as hereinafter provided: 
LIMITATION ON GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, PANAMA CANAL 
COMPANY 
Xot to exceed $8,680,000 of the funds available to the Panama Canal 
Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for general 
and administrative expenses of the Company, which shall be com-
puted on an accrual basis. Funds available to the Panama Canal 
Company for operating expenses shall be available for the purchase of 
not to exceed fourteen passenger motor vehicles of which twelve are 
for replacement only, and for uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
2131). 
GENERAL PROVISION—THE PANAMA CANAL 
68 Stat. 1114. 
SEC. 201. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U.S.C. 55a), in an amount not exceeding $30,000: Provided, That 
6o stat. sio. 
the rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem: Provided 
fur-
ther, That no part of any appropriation contained in title I I of this 
Act shall be used to construct a flag pole, platform, or any other device 
for the purpose of displaying the flag of Panama in the Canal Zone, 
the sovereign control of which is vested in the United States Govern-
ment by virtue of long standing Treaty. 
TITLE III—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and 
borrowing authority available to such Corporation, and in accord with 
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 
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out the programs set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for 
such Corporation, except as hereinafter provided: Provided, 
That 
the next audit of such Corporation by the Comptroller General shall 
be for the period July 1,1959, through December 31,1960, and there-
after such audits shall be for each calendar year: 
L I M I T A T I O N 
O N 
A D M I N I S T R A T I V E 
E X P E N S E S , 
S A I N T LAWRENCE SEAWAY 
D E V E L O P M E N T CORPORATION 
Not to exceed $414,000 shall be available for administrative expenses 
which shall be computed on an accrual basis, including not to exceed 
$2,000 for official entertainment expenses, to be expended upon the 
approval or authority of the Administrator, purchase of two passenger 
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motor vehicles for replacement only, and services as authorized by 
60 Stat. 810. 
section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates for 
individuals not to exceed $100 per day: Provided^ That not to exceed 
$5,000 may be expended for services of individuals employed at rates 
in excess of $50 per day. 
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Small 
Business Administration, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$5,597,000, and in addition there may be transferred to this appro-
griation not to exceed $16,363,000 from the revolving fund, Small 
business Administration, and not to exceed $675,000 from the fund 
for liquidation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans. Small 
Business Administration, for administrative expenses in connection 
with activities financed under said funds: Provided, That the amount 
authorized for transfer from the revolving fund, Small Business Ad-
ministration, may be increased, with the approval of the Director 
of the Bureau of the Budget, by such amount (not exceeding $500,000) 
as may be required to finance administrative expenses incurred in 
the making of disaster loans: Provided further, That 10 per centum 
of the amount authorized to be transferred from the revolving fund, 
Small Business Administration, shall be apportioned for use, pur-
31 use 665. 
suant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, only in 
such amounts and at such times as may be necessary to carry out the 
business loan program. 
REVOLVING F U N D 
For additional capital for the revolving fund authorized by the 
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Small Business Act of 1953, as amended, to be available without fiscal 
year limitations, $50,000,000. 
TARIFF COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Tariff Commission, including sub-
scriptions to newspapers (not to exceed $300), not to exceed $65,000 
for expenses of travel, and services as authorized by section 15 of the 
60 Stat. 810. 
Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $75 per 
diem for individuals, $2,455,000: Provided, That no part of this ap-
propriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the 
Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings 
^^46 Stat. 701. 703, under sections 336, 337, and 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, wherein he 
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9 u s e 13 3 6- or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary 
interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative: 
Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall 
be used for making any special study, investigation, or report at the 
request of any other agency of the executive branch of the Government 
unless reimbursement is made for the cost thereof. 
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TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any individual, corporation, 
or agency included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propa-
ganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation proposed or 
pending before Congress. 
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay any expenses incident to or in connection with partici-
pation in the International Materials Conference. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Commerce and Related 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1961". 
Approved May 13, 1960. 
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Public Law 86-452 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To extend the time for tiling of the final report of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial 
Commission. 
May 13, 1.960 
[H, J. Res,. 598] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) of 
section 5 of the joint resolution entitled "Joint Resolution to establish 
a Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission" approved September 2,1957 
(71 Stat. 587), is amended by striking out "March 1, 1960", and 
inserting in lieu thereof "June 30,1960". 
Approved May 13, 1960. 
Lincoln Sesqui-
c e n t e n nial Com-
mission. 
Report. 
Public Law 86-453 
AN ACT 
To suspend for two years the import duty on certain amoiphous graphite. 
May 13, I960 
[H, R. 1:217] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That amorphous 
graphite or amorphous plumbago, crude or refined, valued at $50 per 
ton or less, provided for in paragraph 213 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
shall be admitted free of duty if entered, or withdrawn from ware-
house, for consumption, during the two-year period beginning on the 
day after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Approved May 13, 1960. 
46 Stat. 604. 
19 u s e 1001. 
Public Law 86-454 
AN ACT 
j^jgy j3^ J960 
To remove the requirement that, of the Chief and Deputy Chief of the Bureau of 
[H. R. 94 64] 
Ships, one must be specially qualified and experienced in naval engineering 
and the other must be specially qualified and experienced in naval architecture. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5145(b) 
of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(b) The Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Ships shall be detailed 
from officers on the active list of the Navy who are specially qualified 
and experienced in naval engineering or naval architecture." 
Approved May 13, 1960. 
Bureau of Ships. 
Deputy Chief. 
70A Stat. 289.