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PUBLIC LAW 89-658-OCT. 14, 1966

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ment of commissioned officers in time of war or national emergency subject to the following limitations: "(1) Commissioned officers in the service of a military department, under the provisions of section 16 of the Act of M a j 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87), as amended, may, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the military department concerned, be temporarily promoted to higher ranks or grades. " (2) Commissioned officers in the service of the Environmental Science Services Administration may be temporarily promoted to fill vacancies in ranks and grades caused by the transfer of commissioned officers to the service and jurisdiction of a military department under the provisions of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87), as amended. "(3) Temporary appointments may be rilade in all grades to which original appointments in the Environmental Science Services Administration are authorized: Provided, That the number of officers holding temporary appointments shall not exceed the number of officers transferred to a military department under the provisions of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87), as amended." Approved October 14, 1966. Public Law 89-658

October 14, 1966

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AN ACT

To establish a contiguous fishery zone beyond the territorial sea of the United States.

Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fisheries zone United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is esu°.s*.'^terr"itoliai tablished a fisheries zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United sea. States. The United States will exercise the same exclusive rights Establishment. in respect to fisheries in the zone as it has in its territorial sea, subject to the continuation of traditional fishing by foreign states within this zone as may be recognized by the United States. SEC. 2. The fisheries zone has as its inner boundary the outer limits of the territorial sea and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so that each point on the line is nine nautical miles from the nearest point in the inner boundary. SEC. 3. Whenever the President determines that a portion of the fisheries zone conflicts with the territorial waters or fisheries zone of Seaward bound- auothcr couutry, he may establish a seaward^boundary for such portion ary of the zone in substitution for the seaward boundary described in section 2. SEC. 4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as extending the jurisdiction of the States to the natural resources beneath and in the waters within the fisheries zone established by this Act or as diminishing their jurisdiction to such resources beneath and in the waters of the territorial seas of the United States. Approved October 14, 1966.

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