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PUBLIC LAW 89-657-OCT. 14, 1966

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Public Law 89-657 AN ACT

October 14, 1966

To amend certain provisions of existing law concerning the relationship of the Environmental Science Services Administration to the Army and Navy so they will apply with similar effect to the Air Force.

[H. R. 722]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Environmental United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 16 of Science Services the Act of May 22, 1917, chapter 20, as amended (33 U.S.C. 855, Admi'nrstra'tion 858), is amended as follows: enc"°ris^frr^'^' (1) The first paragraph (33 U.S.C. 855) is amended to read as autho^riz^orr^' follows:

40 Stat. 87.

'"The President is authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to transfer to the service and jurisdiction of a military department such vessels, equipment, stations, and commissioned officers of the Environmental Science Services Administration as he may deem to the best interest of the country, and after such transfer all expenses connected therewith shall be defraj^ed out of the appropriations for the department to which transfer is made: Provided, That such vessels, equipment, stations, and commissioned officers shall be returned to the Environmental Science Services Administration when such national emergency ceases, in the opinion of the President, and nothing in this section shall be construed as transferring the Environmental Science Services Administration or any of its functions from the Department of Commerce except in time of national emergency and to the extent herein provided: Provided further, That any of the commissioned officers of the Environmental Science Services Administration who may be transferred as provided in this section, shall, while under the jurisdiction of a military department, have proper military status and shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Army, Navy, or Air Force, as the case may be, insofar as the same may be applicable to persons whose retention permanently in the military service of the United States is not contemplated by law." (2) The last paragraph (33 U.S.C. 858) is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall J°int reguiajointly prescribe regulations governing the duties to be performed by ^""^^ ^" °"*^' the Environmental Science Services Administration in time of war, and for the cooperation of that service with the military departments in time of peace in preparation for its duties in war, which regulations shall not be effective unless approved by each of those Secretaries, and included therein may be rules and regulations for making reports and communications between a military department and the Environmental Science Services Administration." SEC. 2. Section 10 of the Act of January 19, 1942, chapter 6, as amended (33 U.S.C. 868a), is amended to read as follows: se Stat. s. "Commissioned officers, ships' officers, and members of the crews of Purchase of vessels of the Environmental Science Services Administration shall be supplies. permitted to purchase commissary and quartermaster supplies as far as available from the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps at the prices charged officers and enlisted men of those services." SEC. 3. Section 1 of the Act of December 3, 1942, chapter 670, as amended (33 U.S.C. 854a-l), is amended to read as follows: ^6 Stat. loss. "Personnel of the Environmental Science Services Administration motions; limitaTemporary pro shall be subject in like manner and to the same extent as personnel tions. of the Navy to all laws authorizing temporary appointment or advance-

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