An Act to relieve the Secretary of the Interior of certain reporting requirements in connection with proposed National Park Service awards of concession leases and contracts, including renewals thereof
PL 84-712 (H.R.3897), enacted 07/14/1956

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did not report to the Veterans' Administration income derived from 
work performed for the Veterans' Administration in excess of twenty 
hours per week, is hereby relieved from liability to repay to the United 
States all sums for which he has been held liable arising out of such 
work performed for the Veterans' Administration. 
In the audit and 
settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of 
the United States, full credit shall be given for any amount for which 
liability is relieved by this section. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and 
directed to pay, out or any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to each of the individuals described in the first section 
of this Act an amount equal to the sum of all amounts which he has 
repaid to the United States (or which have been withheld by the 
United States from amounts otherwise payable to him, or for his 
benefit) by reason of the liability of which he is relieved hyj the first 
section of this Act: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated 
in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or 
attorney on account of services rendered in connection with such 
claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 
Any person violating the provisions of this Act 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
Restrictions. 
Penalty. 
Public Law 712 
CHAPTER 598 
AN ACT 
To relieve the Secretary of the Interior of certain reporting requirements in 
connection with proposed National Park Service awards of concession leases 
and contracts, including renewals thereof. 
July 14, 1956 
[H. R, 3897] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representati'ues of the 
United States of America in Congress assempled, That the second 
paragraph under the heading "National Park Service" in the 
Act of July 31, 1953 (67 Stat. 261, 271) is amended to read as 
follows: "The Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter report in 
detail all proposed awards of concession leases and contracts involving 
a gross annual business of $100,000 or more, or of more than five years 
in duration, including renewals thereof, sixty days before such awards 
are made, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of 
Representatives for transmission to the appropriate committees." 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
N a t i o n a l Park 
Service. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
16 u s e 17b- 1. 
Public Law 713 
CHAPTER 599 
AN ACT 
To allow the use of certain property in Volusia County, Florida, for civil-defense 
purposes without payment of compensation to the United States. 
July 14, 1956 
[H, R. 5657] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, or any condition or restriction placed 
on the real property by the deed given by the United States to the 
Board of Public Instruction of Volusia County, Florida, on May 15, 
1948, which can be found in book 386, page 27 of the public records of 
Volusia County, Florida, such real property may be used for civil-
defense purposes by the Volusia County Civil Defense Control Center 
without the payment of compensation to the United States. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
Volusia County,. 
Fla.