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PUBLIC LAW 87-579-AUG. 9, 1962

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if the library fails to correct the unsatisfactory conditions within six months. The Representative or the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico in whose area the library is located (or (1) in the case of a library designated by a Senator, the Senator who made such designation or any successor of such Senator, (2) in the case of a library in the District of Columbia, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and (3) in the case of a library in Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands, the Governor) shall be notified and shall then be authorized to designate another library within the area served by him, which shall meet the conditions herein required, but which shall not be in excess of the number of depository libraries authorized by law within the State, district, territory, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as the case may be." SEC. 7. That section 98 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 624, ch. 23; 44 U.S.C. 87), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 98. The libraries of the executive departments, of the United Libraries of States Military Academy, of the United States Naval Academy, of the * entsl^efcf'^^" United States Air Force Academy, of the United States Coast Guard Academy, and of the United States Merchant Marine Academy are constituted designated depositories of Government publications. A depository library within each independent agency may be designated upon certification of need by the head of the independent agency to the Superintendent of Documents. Additional depository libraries within executive departments and independent agencies may be designated to receive Government publications to the extent that the number so designated shall not exceed the number of major bureaus or divisions of such departments and independent agencies. These designations shall be made only after certification by the head of each executive department or independent agency to the Superintendent of Documents as to the justifiable need for additional depository libraries. Depository libraries within executive departments and independent agencies are authorized to dispose of unwanted Government publications after first offering them to the Library of Congress and the National Archives." SEC. 8. That section 74 of the Act of January 12, 1895, as amended Government pub(28 Stat. 620, ch. 23; and sec. 11, 49 Stat. 1552, ch. 630; 44 U.S.C. 92), ";/*^°"^ Tree "us"!' is hereby amended to read as follows: ^'°^* ^* "SEC. 74. All Government publications of a permanent nature which are furnished by authority of law to officers (except Members of Congress) of the United States Government, for their-official use, shall be stamped 'Property of the United States Government', and shall be preserved by such officers and by then; delivered to their successors in office as a part of the property appertaining to the office. Government publications which are furnished to depository libraries ' shall be made available for the free use of the general public, and may be disposed of by depository libraries after retention for a minimum period of five years, and in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the Depository Library Act of 1962, if the depository < library is served by a regional depository library. When the depository libraries are not served by a regional depository library, or if they are regional depository libraries themselves, the Government publications, except superseded publications or those issued later in bound form which may be discarded as authorized by the Superintendent of Documents, shall be retained permanently in either printed form or in microfacsimile form." SEC. 9. Not to exceed two depository libraries in each State and Regional deposthe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may be designated as herein pro- "°'^**' vided to be regional depositories, and as such shall receive from the Superintendent of Documents copies of all new and revised Govern-

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