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PUBLIC LAW 85-569-JULY 31, 1958

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any element thereof at any time by or on behalf of the United States, or by or on behalf of any foreign government pursuant to any treaty or agreement with the United States, within the United States or at any other place; (2) in any amount exceeding $100,000, unless the Administrator has transmitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress a full and complete report concerning the amount and terms of, and the basis for, such proposed award, and thirty calendar days of regular session of the Congress have expired after receipt of such report by such committees. APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 307. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act, except that nothing in this Act shall authorize the appropriation of any amount for (1) the acquisition or condemnation of any real property, or (2) any other item of a capital nature (such as plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion) which exceeds $250,000. Sums appropriated pursuant to this subsection for the construction of facilities, or for research and development activities, shall remain available until expended. (b) Any funds appropriated for the construction of facilities may be used for emergency repairs of existing facilities when such existing facilities are made inoperative by major breakdown, accident, or other circumstances and such repairs are deemed by the Administrator to be of greater urgency than the constructipn of new facilities. Approved July 29, 1958.

Public Law 85-569 July 31, 1958 tH.i?. 12161I

AN ACT To provide for the establishment of townsites, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Agricuittore. United States of America in Congress assembled, That areas of not to exceed six hundred and forty acres for any one application may be set aside and designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as a townsite from any national forest land or land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture under title III of the Bankhead-Jones F a r m Tenant 7°u*s*c^¥6io. ^^*' ^PO'^ application and, after public notice, satisfactory showing 1013. offered for sale by the Secretary of Agriculture at public sale to the highest bidder for not less than the appraised value thereof: Provided, That any of such lots as may be offered for sale at a public sale and for which there is no satisfactory bid may be disposed of by the Secretary of Agriculture at private sale for not less than the appraised value thereof: Provided further, That any person now occupying any of such lands on which improvements have been constructed by him or his predecessor pursuant to a permit or other authorization from the Federal Government shall be given the opportunity of purchasing such lands at the appraised value: And provided further, That no more than three such townlots may be sold at either public or private sale to any person or private corporation, firm, or agency. Approved July 31, 1958.
 * of need therefor by any county, city, or other local governmental subdivision. Areas so designated may be divided into townlots and

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