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appurtenant facilities, known as a portion of former Walsh-Kaiser Shipyard, and located at Providence, Rhode Island. SEC. 2. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to accept on behalf of the United States of America, at a cost not exceeding $1, the conveyance by the Port of Portland, Oregon, of a building known as the Child Care Center Building and located on land leased from the Port of Portland, at Portland, Oregon, and to transfer without reimbursement the custody and control over such building to the Department of the Navy. SEC. 3. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to convey, without cost and on behalf of Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to the United States of America, one and eighteen onehundredths acres of land, known as the remaining portion of the former Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Plant, Plancor 1644, located at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and to transfer custody and control thereof to the Department of the Navy without reimbursement. SEC. 4. The transfers and acceptance of conveyances authorized by sections 1, 2, and 3 hereof shall not include any inventories of raw material or work in progress. Approved May 13, 1952.

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AN ACT Granting the consent and approval of Congress to the participation of certain Provinces of the Dominion of Canada in the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativen of the United States of America in Congress ossenMed^ That the consent and approval of Congress is hereby given to the participation in the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact in the manner provided in, and as a party to, such compact of any Province of the Dominion of Canada which is contiguous to any State which is a party to such compact, heretofore approved by the Act entitled "An Act granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate forest fire protection compact", approved June 25, 1949 (63 Stat. 271). SEC. 2. I n order to assist in carrying out the terms of such compact, and notwithstanding any other provisions of law— (a) the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, may prescribe such procedures as he shall deem necessary for the purposes of such compact for the entry to the United States of articles of any kind. He may also prescribe regulations which permit, for such purposes, the return to United States customs territory of any articles temporarily exported, and the importation for temporary storage or use of any other articles, without entry and without the payment of any duty or tax imposed upon or by reason of importation; (b) the head of any Federal agency, other than the Treasury Department, exercising by law any authority with respect to imports or exports of any kind, may make such special rules and regulations relating to the exercise of such authority as he shall deem necessary for the purposes of such compact; and (c) the Attorney General, in the case of the immigration laws, and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service with the approval of the Federal Security Administrator in the case of the

May 13, 1952 [H.R. 4 764]

Canada. Forest Fire Protection Compact. Consent of Congress.

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