An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to plan, construct, operate, and maintain a sanitary sewer to connect the Dulles International Airport with the District of Columbia system
PL 86-515 (H.R.12063), enacted 06/12/1960

210 
PUBLIC LAW 86-515-JUNE 12, 1960 
[74 S T AT 
F a i r 
value. 
m ark e t 
South 32 degrees 50 minutes 41 seconds east 44.0 feet to a point; 
thence, 
South 04 degrees 59 minutes 11 seconds east 37.8 feet to a point; 
thence, 
South 21 degrees 20 minutes 06 seconds east 27.2 feet to a point; 
thence. 
South 09 degrees 47 minutes 21 seconds east 37.8 feet to a point; 
thence, 
South 20 degrees 20 minutes 46 seconds east 21.5 feet to a point; 
thence, 
South 0 degrees 54 minutes 44 seconds west 174.0 feet to a point, 
said point being 10.0 feet northeasterly measured radially from the 
center line of track A; thence, 
Northwesterly 114.03 feet along a nontangent curve concave to the 
southeast, having a radius of 360.21 feet and a central angle of 18 
degrees 08 minutes 14 seconds to the east end of wharf numbered 1; 
said curve being 10.0 feet northeasterly of measured radially and 
parallel to the center line of track A; thence. 
North 0 degrees 04 minutes 20 seconds west 13.2 feet to the point 
of beginning and containing 22.07 acres more or less. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance herein authorized shall be made at the fair 
market value of the property as determined by the Secretary of the 
Navy and shall be made upon such terms and conditions and shall 
include such reservations as the Secretary of the Navy shall determine 
to be in the public interest. 
Approved June 11, 1960. 
June 12, I960 
[H. R. 12063] 
Public Law 86-515 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to plan, construct, 
operate, and maintain a sanitary sewer to connect the Dulles International 
Airport with the District of Columbia system. 
Dulles Interna-
tional Airport. 
D. C. 
s e w a g e 
system. 
.Interceptor. 
Charges. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ameri^^a in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia (or their designated agents), here-
inafter called the Commissioners, are hereby authorized to develop 
a plan for a sanitary interceptor and trunk sewer line to extend from 
Dulles International Airport to the District of Columbia system, here-
inafter called the Potomac interceptor, which shall be of sufficient 
capacity to provide service for such airport and for the expected com-
munity growth and development in the adjacent areas in the States 
of Maryland and Virginia. 
Such plan shall be developed in consulta-
tion with the National Capital Planning Commission and the National 
Capital Regional Planning Council. 
SEC. 2. (a) Upon completion of the plan authorized by section 1 of 
this Act, the Commissioners are authorized to provide for acquisition 
of rights-of-way, development of the detailed plans and specifications, 
and construction of the Potomac interceptor. When such interceptor 
is completed, it shall be operated and maintained by the Commis-
sioners as a part of a regional sanitary sewer system in cooperation 
with the proper authorities of the State and local jurisdictions con-
cerned, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Com-
missioners. 
(b) The Commissioners are authorized to establish, by agreements 
with the appropriate agencies of the United States and with the 
proper authorities of the States and local jurisdictions concerned, 
74 S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 86-515-JUNE 12, 1960 
211 
charges for the use of the Potomac interceptor, which shall be based 
upon the costs of operation, maintenance, and amortization of the cost 
of all planning and construction (including acquisition of rights-of-
way) of such interceptor, but which shall exclude such amount as may 
be appropriated pursuant to section 3 of this Act. 
The Commissioners 
shall credit all receipts from such charges for the use of the Potomac 
interceptor to a special fund which is hereby established and which 
shall be known as the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works ^,"^3 g^^i^a^y y^^" 
Fund of the District of Columbia. Such special fund shall be avail- ««« works Fund. 
able in such amounts as may be appropriated from time to time for 
expenses necessary to plan, construct, maintain, and operate the 
Potomac interceptor. 
(c) The Commissioners shall also charge all users of the Potomac 
interceptor, including any agency of the United States for carrying, 
treating, and disposing of sewage in the sewerage system of and 
within the District of Columbia consistently with the provisions of 
section 1 of the Act of August 21, 1958 (72 Stat. 702; D.C. Code, sec. 
l-8l7c) and section 9 of the Act of September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 717; 
D.C. Code, sec. 1-817), and the receipts derived from said charges 
shall be deposited to the credit of the D.C. Sanitary Sewage Works 
Fund (created by section 202 of the District of Columbia Public 
^ . c . code 43-
Works Act of 1954; 68 Stat. 104). 
^^°^-
SEC. 3. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, 
Appropriation. 
there is authorized to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, 
to the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works Fund the sum of 
$3,000,000, as the Federal contribution towa^rd the cost of planning, 
acquiring rights-of-way for, and constructing the Potomac inter-
ceptor. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed umftlao"".^^^"^'' 
to advance to the Commissioners, from time to time, and the Com-
missioners are authorized to accept as loans, such additional funds, 
not exceeding a total of $25,000,000, as may be appropriated to carry 
out the purposes of this Act. Any loan advanced under this section 
shall be credited to the Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works 
Fund, and shall be repaid to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the 
receipts credited to said fund, in substantially equal annual payments 
including principal and interest, within a period of forty years be-
ginning on July 1 of the second fiscal j^ear following the date on 
which each such advance is credited to this fund: Provided^ That in-
terest and principal payments shall be deferred whenevei- the Sec-
retary of the Treasury finds that the income received from charges 
for sewerage services is inadequate to cover these and other expenses 
properly chargeable to these receipts, and such deferred interest and 
principal shall be added to the sums payable to the Secretary of the 
Treasury in later years. The interest rates on such loans shall be 
determined in accordance with the provisions of section 218 of the 
District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954, as amended (68 
Stat. 109). 
X6i'7^'''°'''''^' 
SEC. 5. (a) The Commissioners are authorized to acquire by pur- , •^^'ivisition of 
, 
i ' 
,. 
-. 
,. 
,1 
. 
i
T
^ 
• * ' , , 
lands m Maryland 
chase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise, any land or any interest and Virginia, 
in land located in Maryland or Virginia needed for construction and 
operation of the Potomac interceptor. 
Title to any such land or in-
terest in land shall be taken in the name of the United States but shall 
be under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners. 
For the 
purpose of acquiring any such land or any interest in land, the Com-
missioners shall be deemed to be officers of the Government within the 
meaning and for the purposes of the Act approved August 1, 1888 
(25 Stat. 357), as amended (40 U.S.C, sec. 257). The provisions of 
212 
PUBLIC LAW 86-516-JUNE 12, I960 
[74 ST A T . 
40 u s e 258a-e. 
Transfer of juris-
diction. 
the Act approved February 26, 1931 (46 Stat. 1421; 40 U.S.C., sees. 
257ar-e) and the Act approved October 21, 1942 (56 Stat. Y97; 40 
U.S.C., sec. 258f), shall be applicable to any condemnation proceed-
ings instituted pursuant to authority of this Act. 
(b) When any land under the jurisdiction of any department or 
agency of the United States may be needed for the construction or 
operation of the Potomac interceptor, the appropriate officer of such 
d.epartment or agency is authorized, upon re<juest of the Commis-
sioners, to transfer to the Commissioners jurisdiction over so much of 
such land, or of such interests therein, as the Commissioners shall 
request. 
Approved June 12, 1960. 
June 12, 1960 
[H. R. 5421] 
Public Law 86-516 
AN ACT 
To provide a program of assistance to correct inequities in the construction of 
Ashing vessels and to enable the fishing industry of the United States to 
regain a favorable economic status, and for other purposes. 
Fishing vessels. 
Construction as-
sistance. 
Subsidies. 
Applications. 
"Contracts. 
Subsidies, 
ditlons. 
72 Stat, 676. 
19 u s e 1364. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to 
assist certain depressed segments of the fishing industry the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay in accordance with this Act 
a subsidy for the construction of fishing vessels in the shipyards of the 
United States. 
SEC. 2. Any citizen of the United States may apply to the Secretary 
for a construction subsidy to aid in construction of a new fishing vessel 
in accordance with this Act. No such application shall be approved by 
the Secretary unless he determined that (1) the plans and specifica-
tions for the fishing vessel are suitable for use in the fishery in which 
that vessel will operate and suitable for use by the United States for 
National Defense or military purposes in time of war or National 
emergency, (2) that the applicant possesses the ability, experience, re-
sources, and other qualifications necessary to enable him to operate 
and maintain the proposed new fishing vessel, (3) will aid in the de-
velopment of the United States fisheries under conditions that the 
Secretary considers to be in the public interest, (4) that the vessel, 
except under force majeure will deliver its full catch to a port of 
the United States, (5) that the applicant will employ on the vessel 
only citizens of the United States or aliens legally domiciled in the 
United States, (6) the vessel will be documented under the laws of the 
United States, and ^(7) such other conditions as the Secretary may 
consider to be in the'public interest. 
SEC. 3. If the Secretary, in the exercise of his discretion, determines 
that the granting of a subsidy applied for is reasonably calculated to 
carry out the purposes of this Act, he may approve such application 
and enter into a contract or contracts with the applicant which will 
provide for payment by the United States of a construction subsidy 
m accordance with the purposes and provisions of this Act and in 
accordance with any other conditions or limitations which may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. A construction subsidy shall be granted under this Act only 
to assist in the construction of a fishing vessel to be operated in (1) a 
fishery suffering injury from which escape clause relief has been rec-
ommended by the Tariff Commission under the Trade Agreements 
Assistance Act of 1951, as amended (65 Stat. 74), but where such relief 
has been or is hereafter denied under section 7(c) of such Act; (2) a 
fishery found by the Secretary to be injured or threatened with injury