An Act to provide that the price at which the Coast and Geodetic Survey sells certain charts and related material to the public shall not be less than the cost thereof
PL 88-441 (S.1336), enacted 08/14/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-441-AUG. 14, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
August 14, 1964 
[S. 1336] 
Public Law 88-441 
AN ACT 
To provide that the price at which the Coast and Geodetic Survey sells certain 
charts and related material to the public shall not be less than the cost 
thereof. 
Coast and Geo-
detic Survey. 
Pricing of 
charts. 
Free distribu-
tion. 
Limitation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 76 of 
the Act entitled "An Act providing for the public printing and 
binding and the distribution of public documents", 
approved 
January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 620; 44 U.S.C. 246), as amended, is 
amended to read: 
"a. The charts published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be 
sold at cost of paper and printing as nearly as practicable. 
The price 
to the public shall include all expenses incurred in actual reproduction 
of the charts after the original cartography, such as photography, 
opaquing, platemaking, press time and bindery operations; the full 
postage rates, according to the rates for postal services used; and any 
additional cost factors deemed appropriate by the Secretary, such 
as overhead and administrative expenses allocable to the production 
of the charts and related reference materials: Provided, That the costs 
of basic surveys and geodetic work done by the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey shall not be included in the price of such charts and reference 
materials. 
The Secretary of Commerce shall publish the prices at 
which such charts and reference materials are sold to the public at 
least once each calendar year. 
"b. There shall be no free distribution of such charts except to 
the departments and officers of the United States requiring them for 
public use; and a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three 
hundred, to be presented to such foreign governments, libraries, and 
scientific associations, and institutions of learning as the Secretary of 
Commerce may direct; but on the order of Senators, Representatives, 
and Delegates not to exceed one hundred copies to each may be 
distributed through the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey." 
Approved August 14, 1964. 
August 14, 1964 
[H. R. 9521] 
Public Law 88-442 
AN ACT 
To increase the authorization for appropriation for continuing work in the 
Missouri River Basin by the Secretary of the Interior. 
Missouri River 
Basin. 
58 Stat. 891; 
74 Stat. 502; 
77 Stat. 842. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to 
previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
for fiscal years 1965 and 1966 the sum of $120,000,000 for the prosecu-
tion of the comprehensive plan adopted by section 9(a) of the Act 
approved December 22, 1944 (Public Law Numbered 534, Seventy-
eighth Congress), as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of 
Congress, for continuing the works in the Missouri River Basin to be 
undertaken under said plans by the Secretary of the Interior. No part 
of the funds hereby authorized to be appropriated shall be available 
to initiate construction of any unit of the Missouri River Basin project, 
whether included in said comprehensive plan or not, which is not 
hereafter authorized by Act of Congress. 
Approved August 14, 1964.