An Act to amend section 202 of the Federal Power Act, with respect to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission over persons and facilities engaged in the transmission or sale of electric energy to foreign countries
PL 83-210 (S.1442), enacted 08/07/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 211-AUG. 7. 1953 
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SEC. 619. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Air Force 
under section 301 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress, to pro-
ceed with public works projects as is represented by the following 
amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: 
Sioux City Municipal Airport, Sioux City, Iowa: $17,000,000. 
Houma Gunnery Range, Houma, Louisiana: $3,000,000. 
Charlotte County Airport, Punta Gorda, Florida: $2,731,000. 
Godman Air Force Base, Fort Knox, Kentucky: $995,000. 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
66 Stat. 613. 
Public Law 210 
CHAPTER 343 
AN ACT 
To amend section 202 of the Federal Power Act, with respect to the jurisdiction 
of the Federal Power Commission over persons and facilities engaged in the 
transmission or sale of electric energy to foreign countries. 
August 7, 1953 
[S.1442] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in Congress assembled^ That section 202 of 
part II of the Federal Power Act is hereby amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following subsection: 
" (f) The ownership or operation of facilities for the transmission 
or sale at wholesale of electric energy which is (a) generated within 
a State and transmitted from that State across an international 
boundary and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, or 
(b) generated in a foreign country and transmitted across an inter-
national boundary into a State and not thereafter transmitted into 
any other State, shall not make a person a public utility subject to 
regulation as such under other provisions of this part. 
The State 
within which any such facilities are located may regulate any such 
transaction insofar as such State regulation does not conflict with the 
exercise of the Commission's powers under or relating to subsection 
202 (e)." 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
Electric energy. 
Transmission or 
sale. 
49 Stat. 847. 
16 u s e 824a. 
Public Law 211 
CHAPTER 344 
AN ACT 
August 7, l i 
To amend section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, 
[8.2315] 
as amended. 
August 7, 1953 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 39 of 
the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, is 
amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "SEC. 39." and by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection: 
"(b) The Attorney General is authorized and directed, immediateh'^ 
upon the enactment of this subsection, to cover into the Treasury oi 
the United States, for deposit into the War Claims Fund, from prop-
erty vested in or transferred to him under this Act, such sums, not to 
exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary to satisfj'^ 
unpaid awards heretofore or hereafter made under the War Claims 
Act of 1948. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Attorney G( leral such sums as may be necessary to replace the sums ""^e 
deposited by him pursuant to the foregoing sentence." 
Approved August 7, 1953. 
62 Stat. 1246. 
50 u s e app. 39. 
War Claims Fund. 
Sums for deposit. 
62 Stat. 1240. 
50 u s e app.2001 
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