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PUBLIC LAW 661-JULY 9, 1956

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"OTHER AUTHORITY NOT AFFECTED

"SEC. 12. This Act shall not be construed as (1) superseding or limiting the functions, under any other law, of the Surgeon General or of the Public Health Service, or of any other officer or agency of the United States, relating to water pollution, or (2) affecting or impairing the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act, 1924, or sections 13 through ^ | ^^' ^^^' 17 of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes'j approved March 3, 1899, as amended, 33us^*40i^403 or (3) affecting or impairing the provisions of any treaty of the United 404, 406-409,' 411c}i. 1

416,418, 549,686,

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687l "SEPARABILITY

"SEC. 13. If any provision of this Act, or the application of any provision of this Act to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, and the remainder of this Act, shall not be affected thereby. ((SHORT

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"SEC. 14. This Act may be cited as the 'Federal Water Pollution Control Act'." SEC. 2, The title of such Act is amended to read "An Act to provide for water pollution control activities in the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and for other purposes." SEC. 3. Terms of office as members of the Water Pollution Control te^s^oVo^ffic''e? "' Advisory Board (established pursuant to section 6(b) of the Water Pollution Control Act, as in effect prior to the enactment of this Act) subsisting on the date of enactment of this Act shall expire a t the close of business on such date. SEC. 4. As soon as possible after the date of enactment of this Act the Surgeon General shall promulgate Federal shares in the manner provided in subsection (h) of section 5 of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by this Act (and without regard to the date specified therein for such promulgation), such Federal shares to be conclusive for the purposes of section 5 of such Act for the period beginning July 1, 1956, and ending June 30, 1959. SEC. 5. In the case of any discharge or discharges causing or contributing to water pollution with respect to which the actions by the Surgeon General prescribed under paragraph (2) of section 2(d) of the Water Pollution Control Act, as in effect prior to the enactment of this Act, have already been completed prior to such enactment, the provisions of such section shall continue to be applicable; except that nothing in this section shall prevent action with respect to any such pollution under and in accordance with the provisions of the Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by this Act. SEC. 6. This Act may be cited as the "Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1956". Approved July 9, 1956.

Public Law 661

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519

AN ACT

j ^ y 9, 1956

To provide punishment for certain confldence game swindles.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section

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