An Act to provide education and training for the children of veterans dying of a service-connected disability incurred after January 31, 1955, and before the end of compulsory military service and directly caused by military, naval, or air service, and for other purposes
PL 86-785 (H.R.4306), enacted 09/14/1960

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may have in or to the easements and rights reserved by said railroad 
companies, or either of them, and waives, relinquishes, and quitclaims 
to said church all right, title, or interest which the United States may 
liave in and to such lands, subject to the aforementioned reservations 
in favor of said railroads. 
SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall be effective only upon pay-
ment to the United States within one year from the date of this Act 
of the present fair market value of the lands described in section 1 
hereof except such part of said value as is attributable to improve-
ments on said lands which were not placed thereon by the United 
States as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. 
Approved September 14, 1960. 
Public Law 86-785 
AN ACT 
To provide education and training for the children of veterans dying of a disa-
bility incurred after January SI, 1955, and before the end of compulsory 
military service and directly caused by military, naval, or air service, and 
for other purposes. 
September 14, 1960 
[H. R. 4306] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (1) 
of section 1701(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking out in the first sentence of such paragraph "or 
the Korean conflict" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Korean 
conflict, or the induction period"; 
(2) by inserting in the second sentence of such paragraph im-
mediately after "disability" the following: "arising out of service 
during the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, 
or the Korean conflict"; and 
(3) by adding at the end of such paragraph the following new 
sentence: "The standards and criteria for determining whether 
or not a disability arising out of service during the induction 
period is service-connected shall be those applicable under chapter 
11 of this title, except that the disability must (A) be shown to 
have directly resulted from, and the causative factor therefor 
must be shown to have arisen out of, the performance of active 
military, naval, or air service 
(but not including service 
described under section 106 of this title), or (B) have resulted 
(i) directly from armed conflict or (ii) from an injury or disease 
received while engaged in extrahazardous service (mcludingsuch 
service under conditions simulating war)." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 1701 of such title is amended by 
adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows: 
"(9) The term 'induction period' means (A) the period begin-
ninjr September 16, 1940, and ending December 6, 1941, and the 
period beginning January 1, 1947, and ending June 26, 1950, and 
(B) the period beginning on February 1,1955, and ending on the 
day before the first day thereafter on which individuals (other 
than individuals liable for induction by reason of a prior defer-
ment) are no longer liable for induction for training and service 
into the Armed Forces under the Universal Military Training 
and Service Act." 
SEC. 3. Subsection (d) of section 1701 of such title is amended by 
striking out "or the Korean conflict" and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: "the Korean conflict, or the induction period". 
Veterans. 
Orphans' educa-
tion and training. 
Disability stand-
ards and criteria. 
"Induction 
p e • 
riod," 
62 Stat. 604. 
s o u s e App. 451. 
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SEC. 4. Subsection (c) of section 1723 of such title is amended— 
(1) by deleting "television" and inserting in lieu thereof "open 
circuit television (except as herein provided)"; and 
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: "The 
Administrator may approve the enrollment of an eligible person 
in a course, to be pursued in residence, leading to a standard col-
W e degree which includes, as an integral part thereof, subjects 
offered through the medium of open circuit televised instruction, 
if the major portion of the course requires conventional class-
room or laboratory attendance." 
SEC. 5. In the case of any individual who is an "eligible person" 
within the meaning of section 1701(a) (1) of title 38, United States 
Code, solely by virtue of the amendments made by this Act, and who 
is above the age of seventeen years and below the a^e of twenty-three 
years on the date of enactment of this Act, the period referred to in 
section 1712 of title 38, United States Code, shall not end with respect 
to such individual until the expiration of the five-year period which 
begins on the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved September 14, 1960. 
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Beptember14, I960 
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To clarify the right of States to select certain public lands subject to any 
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outstanding mineral lease or permit. 
P u b l i c 
lands 
mineral l e a s e o 
t>ermit. 
72 Stat. 928. 
Selection. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^ United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (a) 
of section 2276 of the Revised Statutes (43 U.S.C. 852(a)) is amended 
by the deletion of the existing paragraph (3) and the substitution 
therefor of the following paragraphs: 
"(3) Land subject to a mineral lease or permit may be selected if 
none of the land subject to that lease or permit is in a producing or 
producible status, subject, however, to the restrictions and conditions 
of the preceding and following paragraphs of this subsection. 
"(4) If a selection is consummated as to a portion but not all of 
the lands subject to any mineral lease or permit, then, as to such por-
tion and for so long only as such lease or permit or anv lease issued 
pursuant to such permit shall remain in effect, there shall be automati-
cally reserved to the United States the mineral or minerals for which 
the lease or permit was issued, together with such further rights as may 
be necessary for the full and complete enjoyment of all rights, privi-
leges and benefits under or with respect to the lease or permit: 
Provided, hoioever, That after approval of the selection the Secretary 
of the Interior shall determine what portion of any rents and royalties 
accruing thereafter which may be paid under the lease or permit is 
properly applicable to that portion of the land subject to the lease 
or permit selected by the State, the portion applicable being deter-
mined by applying to the sum of the rents and royalties the same 
ratio as that existing between the acreage selected by the State and 
the total acreage subject to the lease or permit; of the portion ap-
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licable to the selected land 90 per centum shall be paid to the State 
y the United States annually and lO per centum shall be deposited in 
the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.