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PUBLIC LAW 86-295~SEPT. 21, 1959

Applicability.

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immediately after the sixteenth sentence, of the following: "The right of cancellation or forfeiture for violation of the provisions of this Act shall not apply so as to affect adversely the title or interest of a bona fide purchaser in any lease, option for a lease, or interest in a lease acquired in conformity with the acreage limitations of this Act from any other person, association or corporation whose holdings, or the holdings of a predecessor in title, including the original lessee of the United States, may have been canceled or forfeited, or may be subject to cancellation or forfeiture for any such violation. Any person, association or corportion who is a party to any proceedings with respect to a violation of any provision of this Act shall have the right to be dismissed as such a party upon showing that the person, association or corporation acquired the interest involving him as such a bona fide purchaser without violating any provisions of this Act. If during any such proceedings with respect to a violation of any provisions of this Act a party to those proceedings files with the Secretary of the Interior a waiver of his rights under the lease to drill or to assign his interests thereunder or if such rights are suspended by order of the Secretary pending a decision in such proceedings, he shall, if he is found in such )roceedings not in violation of such provisions, have the right to'have lis hi interest extended for a period of time equal to the period between the filing of the waiver or the order of suspension by the Secretary and the final decision, without the payment of rental." gj,(,^ 2. The rights granted by the second and third sentences of the amendment contained within section 1 of this Act shall apply with respect to any proceeding now pending or initiated after the date of enactment of this Act. Approved September 21, 1959. Public Law 86-295 AN

September 21, 1959

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rjy^ provide that Alaska and Hawaii be eligible for participation in the distribution of discretionary funds under section 6(b) of the Federal Airport Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Alaska and Ha- United States of America in Congress assembled., That paragraph (2) waii ^^U cr e t i onary of section 6(b) of the Federal Airport Act (49 U.S.C. sec. 1105 (b)(2)) 60 Stat. 173. is amended to read as follows: "(2) Such discretionary fund shall be available for such approved projects in the several States, Alaska, and Hawaii as the Administrator may deem most appropriate for carrying out the national airport plan, regardless of the location of such projects. The Administrator shall give consideration, in determining the projects for which such fund is to be so used, to the existing airport facilities in the several States, Alaska, and Hawaii, and to the need for or lack of development of airport facilities in the several States, Alaska, and Hawaii." Approved September 21, 1959.

Public Law 86-296 September 21, 1959

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AN ACT

To authorize appropriations for construction of facilities for the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, to increase the authorization of appropriations for the support thereof, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the LS)°o?ator!f.*'"°"^ United States of America in Congress assembled, That, effective for

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