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PUBLIC LAW 87-732-OCT. 2, 1962

[76 STAT.

SEC. 3. There shall be deducted from the annual payment of the assessed share of the United States of the budget of the United Nations an amount equal to the corresponding annual installment of principal and interest due to the United States on account of the loan made pursuant to section 1. Future borrowSEC. 4. Nothing herein shall be regarded as authorizing the United ing. States to participate in any future United Nations borrowing. I t is the sense of the Congress that the United States shall use its best efforts to promote a pattern of United Nations financing (including a vigorous program for collection of delinquencies on annual assessments of nations and maintenance of such annual assessments on a Report to Concurrent basis) that will avoid any future large-scale deficits. The gress. Department of State is hereby instructed to submit to the Congress, not later than January 31, 1963, a report on steps taken in the l7th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on long-term financing of the United Nations. SEC. 5. The Congress hereby expresses its satisfaction that the International Court of Justice has decided that the expenditures authorized in resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly relating to "Expenses of Operations in the Middle East and in the Congo are "expenses of the the organization." Organization" within the meaning of the United Nations Charter, thereby providing a sound basis for obtaining prompt payment of assessments for such expenditures by making them obligations of all members of the United Nations. SEC. 6. I t is the sense of the Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to give effect to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the financial obligations of members of the United Nations in order to assure prompt payment of all assessments, including assessments to cover the cost of operations to maintain or restore international peace and security. Approved October 2, 1962. Public Law 87-732 October 2, 1962 [H. R. 8520]

Agriculture Dept, Wetlands drainage assistance, limitation. 49 Stat. 1151. 16 USC 590p.

A^f' ACT To amend the Soil Conservation ana Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to add a new section 16A to limit finapcial and technical assistance for drainage of certain wetlands.

Be it enacted by the Senate (md House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is further amended by inserting after section 16 thereof the following new section: "SEC. 16A. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not enter into an agreement in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota to provide financial or technical assistance for wetland drainage on a farm under authority of this Act, if the Secretary of the Interior has made a finding that wildlife preservation will be materially harmed on that farm by such drainage and that preservation of such land in its undrained status will materially contribute to wildlife preservation and such finding, identifying specifically the farm and the land on that farm with respect to which the finding was made, has been filed with the Secretary of Agriculture within ninety days after the filing of the application for drainage assistance: Provided, That the limitation against furnishing such financial or technical assistance shall terminate (1) at such time as the Secretary of the Interior notifies the Secretary of Agriculture that such limitation should not be applicable, (2) one year after the date on which the adverse finding of the Secretary of the Interior was filed unless during that time an

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