An Act authorizing the appropriation of funds to provide for the prosecution of projects in the Columbia River Basin for flood control and other purposes
PL 83-363 (H.R.8377), enacted 05/17/1954

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Restrictions. 
PUBLIC LAW 362-MAY 17, 1954 
[68 ST A T . 
42 Stat. 20. 
31 use 1. 
Arch, 
(b) The authorization for an appropriation contained in subsection 
(a) shall not be effective until such time as— 
(1) the receipts of the Government for the preceding fiscal year 
have exceeded the expenditures of the Government for such year, 
as determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget; or 
(2) the budget submitted to the Congress by the President 
under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, reveals that the 
estimated receipts of the Government for the fiscal year for which 
such budget is submitted are in excess of the estimated expendi-
tures of the Government for such fiscal year. 
SEC. 5. The authorization for an appropriation contained in this 
Act shall not be deemed to authorize the appropriation of any funds 
to be available for expenditure in any manner for the planning or 
construction of the stainless steel arch provided for in uie so-called 
"Saarinen Plan", approved May 25,1948, by the United States Terri-
torial Expansion Memorial Commission, or any modification of such 
arch, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed not to expend any 
Government funds in planning for or constructing such arch or any 
modification thereof. 
Approved May 17, 1954. 
Public Law 362 
CHAPTER 205 
May 17, 1954 
[H. R. 6988] 
U n i v e r s i t y of 
Wyoming. 
Conveyance. 
58 Stat. 807. 
AN ACT 
To amend an Act approved December 15, 1944, authorizing the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain land in Powell townsite, Wyoming, Shoshone 
reclamation project, Wyoming, to the University of Wyoming. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress OrHsemhled^ That section 1 of the 
Act approved December 15, 1944, Public Law 487, Seventy-eighth 
Congress, chapter 590, second session, is hereby amended to terminate 
the trust imposed on the land caused to be conveyed by patent by the 
Secretary of the Interior to the University of Wyoming, under and 
by virtue of the authority of said Act, without affecting the reservation 
to the United States of all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits within 
said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, 
as in said Act provided, by striking out the following: ", in trust for 
use as an agricultural experiment station;". 
SEC. 2. Section 2 of said Act of December 15, 1944, Public Law 487, 
Seventy-eighth Congress, chapter 590, second session, to accomplish 
the purposes aforesaid^ is also amended by striking out the whole 
thereof. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and em-
powered to execute and deliver to the University of Wyoming any 
documentary evidence which he may determine to be necessary to 
carry out the intent of this Act. 
Approved May 17, 1954. 
May 17, 1954 
[H. R. 8377] 
Public Law 363 
CHAPTER 206 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the appropriation of funds to provide for the prosecution of projects 
in the Columbia River Basin for flood control and other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph (b) 
under the title "Columbia River Basin'- in section 204 of the Flood