An Act to establish water resources research centers, to promote a more adequate national program of water research, and for other purposes
PL 88-379 (S.2), enacted 07/17/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-379-JULY 17, 1964 
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Public Law 88-379 
AN ACT 
To establish water resources research centers, to promote a more adequate 
national program of water research, and for other puriwses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) this Act 
may be cited as the "Water Resources Research Act of 1964/' 
(b) In order to assist in assuring the Nation at all times of a supply 
of water sufficient in quantity and quality to meet the requirements of 
its expanding population, it is the purpose of the Congress, by this Act, 
to stimulate, sponsor, provide for, and supplement present programs 
for the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, and the train-
ing of scientists in the fields of water and of resources which affect 
water. 
July 17, 1964 
[S. 2] 
Water Re-
sources Re-
search Act 
of 1964. 
TITLE I—STATE WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 
INSTITUTES 
SEC. 100. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secre-
tary of the Interior for the fiscal year 1965 and each subsequent year 
thereafter sums adequate to provide $75,000 to each of the several 
States in the first year, $87,500 in each of the second and third years, 
and $100,000 each year thereafter to assist each participating State in 
establishing and carrying on the work of a competent and qualified 
water resources research institute, center, or equivalent agency (here-
inafter referred to as "institute") at one college or university in that 
State, which college or university shall be a college or university 
established in accordance with the Act approved July 2,1862 (12 Stat. 
503), entitled "An Act donating public lands to the several States and 
territories Avhich may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture 
and the mechanic arts" or some other institution designated by Act of 
the legislature of the State concerned: Provided, That (1) if there is 
more than one such college or university in a State, established in 
accordance with said Act of July 2, 1862, funds under this Act shall, 
in the absence of a designation to the contrary by act of the legislature 
of the State, be paid to the one such college or university designated 
by the Governor of the State to receive the same subject to the Secre-
tary's determination that such college or university has, or may reason-
ably be expected to li^ve, the capability of doing effective work under 
this Act; (2) two or more States may cooperate in the designation of 
a single interstate or regional institute, in which event the sums assign-
able to all of the cooperating States shall be paid to such institute; and 
(3) a designated college or university may, as authorized by appro-
priate State authority, arrange with other colleges and universities 
within the State to participate in the work of the institute. 
(b) It shall be the duty of each such institute to plan and conduct 
and/or arrange for a component or components of the college or uni-
versity with which it is affiliated to conduct competent research, investi-
gations, and experiments of either a basic or practical nature, or both, 
in relation to w-ater resources and to provide for the training of scien-
tists through such research, investigations, and experiments. 
Such 
research, investigations, experiments, and training may include, with-
out being limited to, aspects of the hydrologic cycle; supply and de-
mand for water; conservation and best use of available supplies of 
water; methods of increasing such supplies; and economic, legal, social, 
engineering, recreational, biological, geographic, ecological, and other 
aspects of water problems, having due regard to the varying conditions 
Appropriation. 
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Matching funds. 
Applications 
for grants. 
Payments. 
Funds for print-
ing, etc. 
and needs of the respective States, to water research projects being 
conducted by agencies of the Federal and State Governments, the 
agriculturaLexperiment stations, and others, and to avoidance of any 
imdue displacement of scientists and engineers elsewhere engaged in 
water resources research. 
SEC. 101.. (a) There is further authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year 1965 and each subsequent 
year thereafter sums not in excess of the following: 1965, $1,000,000; 
1966, $2,000,000; 1967, $3,000,000; 1968, $4,000,000; and 1969 and 
each of the succeeding years, $5,000,000. Such moneys when appro-
priated, shall be available to match, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, funds 
made available to institutes by States or other non-Federal sources to 
meet the necessary expenses of specific water resources research proj-
ects which could not otherwise be undertaken, including the expenses 
of planning and coordinating regional water resources research proj-
ects by two or more institutes. 
(b) Each application for a grant pursuant to subsection (a) of this 
section shall, among other things, state the nature of the project to be 
undertaken, the period during which it will be pursued, the qualifica-
tions of the personnel who will direct and conduct it, the importance 
of the project to the water economy of the Nation, the region, and the 
State concerned, its relation to other known research projects there-
tofore pursued or currently being pursued, and the extent to which it 
will provide opportunity for the training of water resources scientists. 
Xo grant shall be made under said subsection (a) except for a project 
approved by the Secretary, and all grants shall be made upon the 
basis of the merit of the project, the need for the knowledge which it 
is expected to produce when completed, and the opportunity it pro-
vides for the training of water resources scientists. 
SEC. 102. Sums available to the States under the terms of sections 
100 and 101 of this Act shall be paid to their designated institutes at 
such times and in such amounts during each fiscal year as determined 
by the Secretary, and upon vouchers approved by him. 
Each insti-
tute shall have an officer appointed by its governing authority who 
shall receive and account for all funds paid under the provisions of 
this Act and shall make an annual report to the Secretary on or before 
the 1st day of September of each year, on work accomplished and the 
status of projects underway, together with a detailed statement of the 
amounts received under any of the provisions of this Act during the 
preceding fiscal year, and of its disbursement, on schedules prescribed 
by the Secretary. 
If any of the moneys received by the authorized 
receiving officer of any institute under the provisions of this Act shall 
by any action or contingency be found by the Secretary to have been 
improperly diminished, lost, or misapplied, it shall be replaced by 
the State concerned and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation 
shall be allotted or paid to any institute of such State. 
SEC. 103. Moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act, in addition to 
being available for expenses for research, investigations, experiments, 
and training conducted under authority of this Act, shall also be avail-
able for printing and publishing the results thereof and for adminis-
trative planning and direction. 
The institutes are hereby authorized 
and encouraged to plan and conduct programs financed under this Act 
in cooperation with each other and with such other agencies and indi-
viduals as may contribute to the solution of the water problems 
involved, and moneys appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be avail-
able for paying the necessary expenses of planning, coordinating, and 
conducting such cooperative research. 
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SEC. 104. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby charged with the i^^^"^^^^'^^°[^l, 
responsibility for the proper administration of this Act and, after full biuty. ' ^ ^°"^' 
consultation with other interested Federal agencies, shall prescribe 
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provi-
sions. He shall require a showing that institutes designated to receive 
funds have, or may reasonably be expected to have, the capability of 
doing effective work. He shall furnish such advice and assistance as 
will best promote the purposes of this Act, participate in coordinating 
research initiated under this Act by the institutes, indicate to them 
such lines of inquiry as to him seem most important, and encourage 
and assist in the establishment and maintenance of cooperation by and 
between the institutes and between them and other research organiza-
tions, the United States Department of the Interior, and other Federal 
establishments. 
On or before the 1st day of July in each year after the passage of this 
Act, the Secretary shall ascertain whether the requirements of sec-
tion 102 have been met as to each State, whether it is entitled to receive 
its share of the annual appropriations for water resources research 
under section 100 of this Act, and the amount which it is entitled to 
receive. 
The Secretary shall make an annual report to the Congress of the 
receipts and expenditures and work of the institutes in all States under 
the provisions of this Act. His report shall indicate whether any por-
tion of an appropriation available for allotment to any State has been 
withheld and, if so, the reasons therefor. 
SEC. 105. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or modify 
the legal relation existing between any of the colleges or universities 
under whose direction an institute is established and the government of 
the State in which it is located, and nothing in this Act shall in any 
way be construed to authorize Federal control or direction of education 
at any college or university. 
Report to 
Congress. 
TITLE II—ADDITIONAL WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH 
PROGRAMS 
SEC. 200. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary 
of the Interior $1,000,000 in fiscal year 1965 and $1,000,000 in each 
of the nine fiscal years thereafter from which he may make ^ants, con-
tracts, matching, or other arrangements with educational institutions 
(other than those establishing institutes under title I of this Act), pri-
vate foundations or other institutions; with private firms and individ-
uals; and with local. State and Federal Government agencies, to 
undertake research into any aspects of water problems related to the 
mission of the Department of the Interior, which may be deemed 
desirable and are not otherwise being studied. The Secretary shall 
submit each such proposed grant, contract, or other arrangement to 
the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and no appropriation shall be made to finance the same 
until 60 calendar days (which 60 days, however, shall not include days 
on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in 
session because of an adjournment of more than three calendar days) 
after such submission and then only if, within said 60 days, neither 
the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives nor the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the 
Senate disapproves the same. 
Proposed 
etc. 
Transmitt 
Congress 
grants, 
al to 
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Cooperation of 
Government agen-
Availability of 
information. 
Cataloging 
center. 
Agency responsi-
bilities. 
Presidential 
action. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 300. The Secretary of the Interior shall obtain the continuing 
advice and cooperation of all agencies of the Federal Government con-
cerned with water problems, of State and local governments, and of 
private institutions and individuals, to assure that the programs au-
thorized in this Act will supplement and not duplicate established 
Avater research programs, to stimulate research in otherwise neglected 
areas, and to contribute to a comprehensive, nationwide program of 
water and related resources research. He shall make generally avail-
able information and reports on projects completed, in progress, or 
planned under the provisions of this Act, in addition to any direct 
publication of information by the institutes themselves. 
SEC. 301. Nothing in this Act is intended to give or shall be con-
strued as giving the Secretary of the Interior any authority or sur-
veillance over water resources research conducted by any other agency 
of the Federal Government, or as repealing, superseding, or diminish-
ing existing authorities or responsibilities of any agency of the Federal 
Government to plan and conduct, contract for, or assist in research in 
its areas of responsibility and concern with water resources. 
SEC. 302. Contracts or other arrangements for water resources work 
authorized under this Act with an institute, educational institution, or 
non-profit organization may be undertaken without regard to the pro-
visions of section 3684 of the Kevised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529) when, 
in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, advance payments of 
initial expense are necessary to facilitate such work. 
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriated funds may be expended pur-
suant to authorization given by this Act for any scientific or techno-
logical research or development activity unless such expenditure is 
conditioned upon provisions determined by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior, with the approval of the Attorney General, to be effective to 
insure that all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and 
other developments resulting from that activity will (with such excep-
tions and limitations as the Secretary may determine, after consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Defense, to be necessary in the interest of 
the national defense) be made freely and fully available to the gen-
eral public. Nothing contained in this section shall deprive the owner 
of any background patent relating to any such activity of any rights 
which that owner may have under that patent. 
SEC. 304. There shall be established, in such agency and location as 
the President determines to be desirable, a center for cataloging cur-
rent and projected scientific research in all fields of water resources. 
Each Federal agency doing water resources research shall cooperate 
by providing the cataloging center with information on work under-
way or scheduled by it. 
The cataloging center shall classify and 
maintain for general use a catalog of water resources research and 
investigation projects in progress or scheduled by all Federal agencies 
and by such non-Federal agencies of government, colleges, univer-
sities, private institutions, firms, and individuals as voluntarily may 
make such information available. 
SEC. 305. The President shall, by such means as he deems appro-
priate, clarify agency responsibilities for Federal water resources re-
search and provide for interagency coordination of such research, 
including the research authorized by this Act. 
Such coordination 
shall include (a) continuing review of the adequacy of the Govern-
ment-wide program in water resources research, (b) identification and 
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elimination of duplication and overlaps between two or more agency 
programs, (c) identification of technical needs in various water re-
sources research categories, (d) recommendations with respect to al-
location of technical effort among the Federal agencies, (e) review of 
technical manpower needs and findings concerning the technical man-
power, base of the program, (f) recommendations concerning manage-
ment policies to improve the quality of the Government-wide research 
effort, and (g) actions to facilitate interagency communication at 
management levels. 
SEC. 306. As used in this Act, the term "State"' includes the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico. 
Approved July 17, 1964. 
' • s t a t e . " 
Public Law 88-380 
AN ACT 
To amend subsection (b) of section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 
(dealing with unrelated business taxable income). 
July 17, 1964 
[H. R. 6455] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled^ That subsection (b) 
of section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (dealing with un-
related business taxable income) is amended by adding the following 
new paragraph at the end thereof: 
"(14) In the case of an organization which is described in sec-
tion 501(c) (5), there shall be excluded all income used to estab-
lish, maintain, or operate a retirement home, hospital, or other 
similar facility for the exclusive use and benefit of the aged and 
infirm members of such an organization, which is derived from 
agricultural pursuits conducted on a ground contiguous to the 
retirement home, hospital, or similar facility and further pro-
vided that such income does not provide more than 75 percent of 
the cost of maintaining and operating the retirement home, hos-
pital, or similar facility; and there shall be excluded all deductions 
directly connected with such income." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply wdth respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
1963. 
Approved July 17, 1964, 1:33 p.m. 
Unrelated busi-
ness taxable in» 
come. 
68A Stat. 
72 Stat. 80. 
26 u s e 512. 
170; 
26 u s e 501. 
Public Law 88-381 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to locate a portion 
of a vehicular tunnel under parts of the United States Capitol Grounds and 
the United States Botanic Garden grounds, and for other purposes. 
July 21, 1964 
[H. R. 1039 2] 
Be it enaxited hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed, in 
constructing, maintaining, and operating a vehicular tunnel in the 
city of Washington, District of Columbia, extending from the vicinity 
of Second and C Streets Southwest, to the vicinity of Third and 
(Constitution Avenue Northw^est, as a part of the Innerloop Freeway 
D.e. 
Vehicular tun-
nel, location.