An Act to amend Public Law 85-905 to provide for a National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped, and for other purposes
PL 91-61 (S.1611), enacted 08/20/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-61-AUG. 20, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
Administration. 
Appropriation. 
the Interior may acquire by donation, purchase witli donated or appro-
priated funds, or exchange such land and interests in land in Teller 
County, Colorado, as he may designate from the lands shown on the 
map entitled "Proposed Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument", 
numbered NM-FFB-7100, and dated March 1967, and more par-
ticularly described by metes and bounds in an attachment to that map, 
not exceeding, however, six thousand acres thereof, for the purpose of 
establishing the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the property 
acquired pursuant to section 1 of this Act as the Florissant Fossil Beds 
National Monument in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to 
establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved 
August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended and 
supplemented. 
SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, but not 
more than $3,727,000, as may be necessary for the acquisition of lands 
and interests in land for the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monu-
ment and for necessary development expenses in connection therewith. 
Approved August 20, 1969. 
August 20, 1969 
[S.1611] 
Public Law 91-61 
" 
AN ACT 
To amend Public Law 85-{K)5 to provide for a National Center on Educational 
Media and Materials for the Handicapped, and for other purposes. 
National Center 
on Educational 
Media and Mate« 
rials for the 
Handicapped. 
Establishment. 
79 Stat. 983. 
42 u s e 2491-
2495. 
Report to 
Congress. 
49 Stat. 1011; 
78 Stat. 238. 
64 Stat. 
63 Stat. 
1267. 
108. 
Be it endcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of Sep-
tember 2, 1958 (Public Law 85-905) is amended— 
(1) in section 3, by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(c) (1) The Secretary is authorized to enter into an agreement with 
an institution of higher education for the establishment and operation 
(including construction) of a National Center on Educational Media 
and Materials for the Handicapped, which will provide a comprehen-
sive program of activities to facilitate the use of new educational tech-
nology m education j)rograms for handicapped persons, including 
designing and developing, and adapting instructional materials, and 
such other activities consistent with the purposes of this Act as the 
Secretary may prescribe in the agreement. Such agreement shall— 
" (A) provide that Federal funds paid to the Center will be used 
solely for such purposes as are set forth in the agreement; 
"(B) authorize the Center, subject to the Secretary's prior 
approval, to contract with public and private agencies and organi-
zations for demonstration projects; 
"(C) provide for an annual report on the activities of the 
Center which will be transmitted to the Congress; 
"(D) provide that any laborer or mechanic employed by any 
contractor or subcontractor in performance of work on any con-
struction aided by Federal funds under this subsection will be paid 
wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construc-
tion in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in 
accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 276a—^276a-5); 
and the Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor 
standards specified in this clause, the authority and functions 
set forth in Eeorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 
3176; 5 U.S.C. 133z-15) and section 2 of the Act of June 13,1934 
(40 U.S.C. 276c). 
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"(2) In considering proposals from institutions of higher education 
to enter into an agreement under this subsection, the Secretary shall 
give preference to institutions— 
"(A) which have demonstrated the capabilities necessary for 
the development and evaluation of educational media for the 
handicapped; and 
"(B) which can serve the educational technology needs of the 
Model High School for the Deaf (established under Public Law 
89-694). 
" (3) If within twenty years after the completion of any construction 
(except minor remodeling or alteration) for which such funds have 
been paid— 
"(A) the facility ceases to be used for the purposes for which it 
was constructed or the agreement is terminated, unless the Secre-
tary determines that there is good cause for releasing the institu-
tion from its obligation, or 
"(B) the institution ceases to be the owner of the facility, 
the United States shall be entitled to recover from the applicant or 
other owner of the facility an amount which bears to the then value 
of the facility the same ratio as the amount of such Federal funds 
bore to the cost of the facility financed with the aid of such funds. 
Such value shall be determined by agreement of the parties or by 
action brought in the United States district court for the district in 
which the facilitj^ is situated."; 
(2) in section 2, by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(5) The term 'construction' means the construction and initial 
equipment of new buildings, including architect's fees, but excluding 
the acquisition of land."; and 
(3) in section 4, by striking out "and" after "1969," and by 
striking out "1970" and all that follows and inserting in lieu 
thereof the following: "1970, $12,500,000 for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1971, $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1972, and $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, 
and for each succeeding fiscal year." 
Approved August 20, 1969. 
80 Stat. 1027. 
D.C. Code 31-
1051 note. 
Termination of 
agreement. 
79 Stat. 983; 
81 Stat. 805. 
42 u s e 2492. 
"Construction. 
Appropriation. 
42 u s e 2494. 
Public Law 91-62 
AN ACT 
August 20, 1969 
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Federal 
Aviation Act of 1958, as amended, is further amended as follows: 
(1) Section 407(b) (49 U.S.C. 1377(b)) is amended by adding the 
following additional sentence: "Any person owning, beneficially or as 
trustee, more than 5 per centum of any class of the capital stock or '^""foi. 
capital, as the case may be, of an air carrier shall submit annually, and 
at such other times as the Board may require, a description of the shares 
of stock or other interest owned by such person, and the amount 
thereof." 
(2) Section 408 (49 U.S.C. 1378) is amended by striking subsection 
408(a) (5) in its entirety, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"(5) For any air carrier or person controlling an air carrier, 
any other common carrier, any person engaged in any other phase 
of aeronautics, or any other person to acquire control of any air 
carrier in any manner whatsoever: Provided, That the Board may 
Federal Aviation 
Act of 1958, 
amendments. 
72 Stat. 766. 
Air carriers. 
Acquisition of