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PUBLIC LAW 88-278-MAR. 10, 1964

[78 STAT.

SERVICES A M) FAflLITIKiS A l THOKIZKI) TO HK I'KOVIDKI) I'O KOHMKH PRKSIDKNTS AND KORMKR VICK PRKSIDKXTS

SEC. 4. The Administrator is authorized to provide, upon recpiest, to each former President and each former Vice President, for a period not to exceed six months from the date of the expiration of his term of office as President or Vice President, for nse in connection with winding up the affairs of his office, necessary services and facilities of the same general character as authorized by this Act to be provided to Presidents-elect and Vice-Pi-esidents-elect. Any person appointed or detailed to serve a former President or former Vice President under authority of this section shall be appointed or detailed in accordance with, and shall be subject to, all of the prvisins of section H of this Act applicable to persons appointed or detailed under authority of that section. The provisions of the Act of August 25, lJ>aS (72 Stat. 888; H TT.S.r. 102, note), other than subsections (a) and (e) shall not become effective with respect to a former President until six months after the expiration of his term of office as President. A l TIIORTZATION OK AIM'ROPRIATIONS

Sjic. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropiiated to the Administrator such funds as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act but not to exceed $900,000 for any one Presidential transition, to remain available during the fiscal year in which the transition occurs and the next succeeding fiscal year. The President shall include in the budget transmitted to the Congress, for each fiscal year in which his regidar term of office will expire, a proposed appropriation for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Approved March 7, 1964.

Public Law 88-278 March 10, 1964 [H. R. 8171]

Riverton r e c l a mation project. Land purchase.

Purchase options. Reports to Congress.

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands, including farm units and improvements thereon, in the third division, Riverton reclamation project, Wyoming, and to continue to deliver water for three years to lands of said division, and for other purposes. Be it enacted 'by the Senate: and House of RepresentatAvei< of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (a) That the Secretary of the Interior shall negotiate with the entrymen on and the owners of land within the third division of the Riverton Federal reclamation project, Wyoming, for the purchase of their lands, patented or unpatented, at a price equal to the appraised value thereof and of the improvements thereon. In the case of any lands which were represented as being suitable for sustained irrigation production in the land classification in force at the time entry was mjide or the lands were acquired by the present owner (or, if the present owmer acquired the same by descent or devise, by his predecessor in title), such value shall be determined without reference to any deterioration in their irrigability subsequent to the time of entry or acquisition arising from above-normal seepage and/or inadequate drainage. The Secretary is authorized to acquire options for the purchase of such lands in the name of the United States. He shall make a final report on the result of his negotiations and on options acquired to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before

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