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PUBLIC LAW 86-600-JULY 7, 1960

an annual rate of basic compensation of $17,500 for certain positions, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: "(23) Director of Coal Research, Department of the Interior". SEC. 5. Research authorized by this Act may be conducted wherever suitable personnel and facilities are available. SEC. 6. No research shall be carried out, contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this Act, unless all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense) be available to the general public. Whenever in the estimation of the Secretary the purposes of this Act would be furthered through the use of patented processes or equipment, the Secretary is authorized to enter into such agreements as he deems necessary for the acquisition or use of such patents on reasonable terms and conditions. SEC. 7. The Secretary shall submit to the President and the Congress, on or before February 15 of each year, beginning with the year 1961, a comprehensive report concerning activities under the authority of this Act, including information on all research projects conducted, sponsored, or cosponsored under the authority of this Act during the preceding year. SEC. 8. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until expended, not to exceed $2,000,000 to be used to carry out the purposes of this Act for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960. (b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1961, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. (c) Sums appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act shall remain available until expended. Approved July 7, 1960.

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Report to President and Congress.

Appropriation.

Public Law 86-600 AN ACT To provide for the presentation of a medal to persons who have served as members of a United States expedition to Antarctica.

Be it exacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Am,e7ica in Congress assembled, That each person who serves, or has served, as a member of a United States expedition to Antarctica between January 1, 1946, and a date to be subsequently established by the Secretary of Defense shall be presented a medal iv^ith accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Military Departments under whose cognizance the expedition falls, such regulations to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. The regulations may include provisions for award to civilian as well as uniformed members and for posthumous awards. Members of the Armed Forces of the United States who are presented the medal referred to in the first section of this Act may wear such medal and the ribbon symbolic of such medal in such manner as shall be prescribed by regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense. Approved July 7, 1960. 48232 0-61-22

July 7, 1960 [H. R. 3923]

Antarctic expedition. Medals for members.

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