An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, the Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes
PL 91-74 (H.R.11582), enacted 09/29/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-73-SEPT. 26, 1969 
[83 STAT. 
Public Law 91-73 
September 26, 1969 
A N 
A C T 
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Relating to age limits in connection with appointments to the United States 
Park Police. 
U.S. Park 
Police. 
Age limits. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Refresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That notwithstand-
ing the provisions of Public Law 89-554 (80 Stat. 419, 5 U.S.C. 3307) 
the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to determine and 
fix the minimum and maximum limits of age within w^hich original 
appointments to the United States Park Police may be made. 
Approved September 26, 1969. 
September 29, 1969 
[H.R. 11582] 
Treasury, 
Post Office, and 
Executive Office 
Appropriation 
Act, 1970. 
Public Law 91-74 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, the 
Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies, for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, the 
Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
TITLE I—TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in the Office of the Secretary, including the 
operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and Annex 
thereof; and not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and repre-
sentation expenses; $8,600,000. 
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center, $58,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for preparation of plans and specifications 
for buildings for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 
$1,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ That such 
sums as are necessary may be transferred to the General Services 
Administration for execution of the work. 
BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Accounts, $45,675,000. 
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BUREAU *0F CUSTOMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Customs, including pur-
chase of one hundred and four passenger motor vehicles (of which 
ninety-one shall be for replacement only) including ninety-four for 
police-type use without regard to the general purchase price limita-
tion for the current fiscal year; acquisition (purchase of one), opera-
tion, and maintenance of aircraft; and awards of compensation to 
informers as authorized by the Act of August 13, 1953 (22 LT.S.C. 
401); $107,551,000. 
^^ stat. 577. 
BUREAU or THE MINT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, including pur-
chase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; and not 
to exceed $1,000 for the expenses of the annual assay commission; 
$17,000,000. 
CONSTRUCTION OF M I N T 
FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for construction of Mint facilities, as au-
thorized by the Act of August 20, 1963 (77 Stat. 129), as amended 
by the Act of July 23, 1965 (79 Stat. 256), $1,770,000, to remain avail- J^ use 291-
able until expended. 
BUREAU OF THE PuBiiic DEBT 
ADMINISTERINO T H E IT BLIC DEBT 
For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues of the 
United States, $60,370,000. 
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not otlier-
wise provided for, including executive direction, administrative sup-
port, and internal audit and security; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
and services of expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined 
by the Commissioner; $23,080,000. 
REVENUE ACCOUNTING AND PROCESSING 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for proc-
essing tax returns, and revenue accounting; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; and services of expert witnesses at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner, including not to exceed $32,500,000 
for temporary employment and not to exceed $84,000 for salaries of 
personnel engaged in preemployment training of card punch operator 
applicants; $200,000,000. 
COMPLIANCE 
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for deter-
mining and establishing tax liabilities, and for investigation and 
enforcement activities, including purchase (not to exceed two hundred 
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and forty-six for replacement only, for police-type use without regard 
to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year) 
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services of expert witnesses 
at such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner; $576,715,000. 
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Treasurer, $7^50,000. 
CHECK FORGERY INSURANCE 
F U N D 
To increase the capital of the "Check forgery insurance fund," in 
accordance with section 1 of the Act approved November 21,1941 (31 
U.S.C. 561), $100,000, to remain availaJble until expended. 
55 Stat. 777. 
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE 
SALARIES A N D 
EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the operation of the United States Secret 
Service, including purchase (not to exceed one hundred and fifty-
seven for police-type use without regard to the general purchase price 
limitation for the current fiscal year, of which sixty are for replace-
ment only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and hire of aircraft; 
$26,871,000. 
CONSTRUCTION OF SECRET SERVICE TRAINING FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for construction of Secret Service training 
facilities, $700,000, to remain available until expended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. Appropriations in this Act to the Department of the 
Treasury shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
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authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-2) including maintenance, repairs, 
and cleaning; and services as authorized by title 5, United States 
Code, section 3109. 
SEC. 102. Hereafter, upon approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
agents on protective missions, as provided by law, may be reimbursed 
for subsistence expenses without regard to rates provided by 5 U.S.C. 
5702. 
Citation o
f title. 
This title may be cited as the "Treasury Department Appropriation 
Act, 1970". 
TITLE II—POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 
CURRENT AUTHORIZATIONS OUT or GENERAL FUNDS 
CONTRIBUTION TO T H E POSTAL F U N D 
For administration and operation of the Post Office Department 
and the postal service, there is hereby appropriated the aggregate 
amount of postal revenues for the current fiscal year, as authorized 
by law (39 U.S.C. 2201-2202), together with an amount equal to the 
difference between such revenues and the total of the appropriations 
hereinafter specified and the sum needed may be advanced to the 
Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General, 
for the following purposes, namely: 
80 Stat. 416. 
80 Stat. 498. 
74 Stat. 594; 
80 Stat. 274. 
80 Stat, 508; 
81 Stat. 206. 
80 Stat. 41(5. 
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CURRENT AUTHORIZATIONS OUT OF POSTAL FUND 
ADMINISTRATION AND REGIONAL OPERATION 
For expenses necessary for administration of the postal service, 
operation of the inspection service and regional offices, uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 6901-5902), 
including services as authorized by title 5, United States Code, section 
3109; management studies; not to exceed $25,000 for miscellaneous and 
emergency expenses (including not to exceed $6,000 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses upon approval by the Postmaster 
General) ; rewards for information and services concerning violations 
of postal laws and regulations, current and prior fiscal years, in 
accordance with regulations of the Postmaster General in effect at the 
time the services are rendered or information furnished, of which not 
to exceed $35,000 for confidential information an4 services shall be 
paid in the discretion of the Postmaster General and accounted for 
solely on his certificate; and expenses of delegates designated by the 
Postmaster General to attend meetings and congresses for the purpose 
of making postal arrangements with foreign governments pursuant 
to law, and not to exceed $20,000 of such expenses to be accounted for 
solely on the certificate of the Postmaster General; $133,069,000. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENGINEERING 
For expenses necessary for administration and conduct of a re-
search, development, and engineering program, including services 
as authorized by title 5, United States Code, section 3109, $48,838,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
OPERATIONS 
For expenses necessary for postal operations, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902) and 
services as authorized by title 5, United States Code, section 3109; for 
repair of vehicles owned by, or under control of, units of the National 
Guard and departments and agencies of the Federal Government 
where repairs are made necessary because of utilization of such vehi-
cles in the postal service; and lor other activities conducted by the 
Post Office Department pursuant to law; $6,141,711,000: Provided, 
That functions financed by the appropriations available to the Post 
Office Department for the current fiscal year and the amounts appro-
priated therefor, may be transferred, with the approval of the Bureau 
of the Budget, between such appropriations to the extent necessary 
to improve administration and operations: Provided 
further, 
That 
Federal Reserve banks and branches may be reimbursed for expendi-
tures as fiscal agents of the United States on account of Post Office 
Department operations: Provided 
further, That of the amount ap-
propriated by this Act for Postal Operations, $5,500,000 shall be for 
additional window service at large post offices and for maintaining 
present levels of special delivery and multiple-trip business delivery 
service at locations where the Postmaster General shall determine such 
maintenance of service to be necessary or desirable. 
TRANSPORTATION 
For payments for transportation of domestic and foreign mails 
by air, land, and water transportation facilities, including current 
and prior fiscal years settlements with foreign countries for handling 
of mail, $630,000,000. 
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BUILDING OCCUPANCY 
For expenses necessary for the operation of postal facilities, build-
ings, and postal communication service; and storage of vehicles owned 
by, or under control of, units of the National Guard and departments 
and agencies of the Federal Government, $230,000,000. 
SUPPLIES AND SERVICES 
For expenses necessary for the postal services and supply operation, 
including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
8i^stat^*206°^' 
U.S.C. 5901) ; including procurement of stamps and accountable 
paper, and postal supplies, $114,917,000. 
PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 
For expenses necessary for modernization and acquisition of equip-
ment and facilities for postal purposes, including not to exceed $2,000,-
000 for increases in prior year orders placed with other Government 
agencies in addition to current increases in prior year orders or con-
tracts made as a result of changes in plans, including $83,723,000 for 
modernization and extensions and fixed mechanized systems to remain 
available until expended; $210,000,000: Provided, 
That the funds 
herein appropriated shall be available for repair, alteration, and im-
provement of the mail equipment shops at Washington, District of 
Columbia, the Post Office Garage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 
Post Office and Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Flint, Michigan, and 
for payment to the General Services Administration for the repair, 
alteration, preservation, renovation, improvement, and equipment of 
federally owned property used for postal purposes, inchiding improved 
lighting, color, and ventilation for the specialized conditions in space 
occupied for postal purposes. 
POSTAL PUBLIC BUILDINGS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary in connection 
with site acquisition, design, construction, and acquisition of postal 
buildings pursuant to the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 479), 
40 use 601 
.jg amended, $170,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That this appropriation shall be available for postal building 
projects at locations approved by the Committee on Public Works of 
the House of Representatives and of the Senate and at maximum con-
struction costs (excluding costs of site acquisition, design, and precon-
struction expenses) as estimated for each project in testimony to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate: Provided 
further, That the limits of costs for each project may be exceeded 
by not to exceed 10 per centum and the amount of any such excess 
cost may be provided from funds available in this appropriation to 
the extent that savings are effected in other projects. 
This title may be cited as the "Post Office Department Appropriation 
Act, 1970". 
TITLE III—EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF T H E 
PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance 
AntB. p. 3. 
at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 102, 
$250,000. 
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Citation of 
title. 
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T H E WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the White House Office, includhi<»; not to 
exceed $250,000 for services as authorized by title 5, United States 
Code, section 3109, at such per diem rates for individuals as the Presi- 
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dent may specify, and other personal services without regard to the 
provisions of law regulating the employment and compensation of 
persons in the Government service; newspapers, periodicals, teletype 
news service, and travel, and official entertainment expenses of the 
President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate; $3,630,000. 
SPECIAL PROJECTS 
For expenses necessary to provide staff assistance for the President 
in connection w^ith special projects, to be expended in his discretion 
and without regard to such provisions of law regarding the expendi-
ture of Government funds or the compensation and employment of 
persons in the Government service as he may specify, $2,500,000: 
Provided^ That not to exceed 20 per centum of this appropriation may 
be used to reimburse the appropriation for "Salaries and expenses, The 
White House Office", for administrative services: Provided 
further^ 
That not to exceed $10,000 shall be available for allocation within the 
Executive Office of the President for official reception and representa-
tion expenses. 
OPERATING EXPENSES, EXECUTIVE MANSION 
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the Executive Mansion, and traveling expenses, to be 
expended as the President may determine, notwithstanding the pro-
visions of this or any other Act, and official entertainment expenses of 
the President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate, $918,000. 
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Bureau of the Budget, including 
services as authorized by title 5, United States Code, section 3109, sostat. 4i6. 
$11,650,000. 
COUNCIL or ECONOMIC ADVISERS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Council in carrying out its functions 
under the Employment Act' of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), $1,137,000. 
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Security Council, including 
services as authorized by title 5, United States Code, section 3109, and 
acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services, 
$1,860,000. 
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EMERGENCY FUND FOR THE PRESIDENT 
For expenses necessary to enable the President, through such offi-
cers or agencies of the Government as he may designate, and without 
regard to such provisions of law regarding the expenditure of Gov-
ernment funds or the compensation and employment of persons in 
the Government service as he may specify, to provide in his discre-
tion for emergencies affecting the national interest, security, or de-
fense which may arise at home or abroad during the current fiscal year, 
$1,000,000: Provided., That no part of this appropriation shall be 
available for allocation to finance a function or {)roject for which 
function or project a budget estima^te of appropriation was trans-
mitted pursuant to law during the Ninety-first Congress, and such 
appropriation denied after consideration thereof by the Senate or 
House of Representatives or by the Committee on Appropriations 
of either body. 
EXPENSES OF MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT 
For expenses necessary to assist the President in improving the 
management of executive agencies and in obtaining greater economy 
and efficiency through the establishment of more efficient business 
methods in Government operations, including services as authorized 
80 Stat. 416. 
by title 5, United States Code, section 3109, by allocation to any 
agency or office in the executive branch for the conduct, under the 
general direction of the Bureau of the Budget, of examinations and 
appraisals of, and the development and installation of improvements 
in, the organization and operations of such agency or of other agen-
cies in the executive branch, $350,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, and to be available without regard to the provisions of sub-
section (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. 
This title may be cited as the "Executive Office Appropriation Act, 
1970". 
TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Administrative Conference of the 
United States, established by the Administrative Conference Act 
(78 Stat. 615), $250,000. 
ADVISORY COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of 
42 use i27^'.' 
September 24, 1959 (73 Stat. 703-706), $575,000. 
31 use 665. 
Citation of title 
80 Stat. 388. 
5 use 571-576 
and notes. 
4279. 
COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
note 
For expenses necessary for the Commission on Obscenity and Por-
nography, established by the Act of October 3, 1967 (Public Law 
81 Stat. 253. 
90-100), Includiug hire of passenger motor vehicles, $1,100,000, to 
remain available until September 30,1970. 
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TAX COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract stenographic reporting 
services, $2,750,000: Provided^ That travel expenses of the judges shall 
be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 502. Positions in the agencies covered by this Act, whether 
financed from funds contained in this Act or from other sourceSj may 
be filled during the fiscal year 1970 without regard to the provisions 
of section 201 of Public Law 90-364j and such positions shall not be '^"'''' P- ^^• 
taken into consideration in determining numbers of employees under 
subsection (a) of that section or numbers of vacancies under sub-
section (b) of that section. 
SEC. 503. Section 5(b) of the Act entitled "An Act creating a com- den^and c°on.'"^' 
mission to be known as the Commission on Obscenity and Pornog- gress. 
raphy", approved October 3, 1967 (Public Law 90-100), as amended, gs^stau^'/?"' 
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is amended by striking out "July 31,1970" and inserting in lieu thereof 
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"September 30,1970". 
This Act may be cited as the "Treasury, Post Office, and Executive 
Office Appropriation Act, 1970". 
Approved September 29, 1969. 
Public Law 91-75 
A N A C T 
September 29, 1969 
To provide for the clispositioii of a judgmeut recovered by the Confederated 
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Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Flathead Reservation, Montana, in paragraph 
11, docket numbered r>0233, United States Court of Claims, and for other 
purposes. 
note. 
Short title. 
Indians. 
Confederated 
Be H enacted hy the Senate and House of ReiyreHentatloes of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the funds 
appropriated to the credit of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai saiiVh a
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Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, in satisfaction of a JJont'"^' Tribes, 
judgment awarded in paragraph 11 of the final decision in docket judgment funds. 
numbered 50233, United States Coiii-t of Claims, including interest 
thereon, after payment of attorneys' fees and other litigation expenses, 
may be advanced, expended, invested or reinvested for any purposes 
that are authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 2. Any part of such funds that may be distributed to members 
of the tribes shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax. 
Approved September 29, 1969.