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PUBLIC LAW 89-671-OCT. 15, 1966

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(2) I f before the date on which this Act takes effect, any department or agency, or officer thereof in his official capacity, is a party to a suit, and under this Act— (A) such department or agency is transferred to the Secretary, or (B) any function of such department, agency, or officer is transferred to the Secretary, then such suit shall be continued by the Secretary (except in the case of a suit not involving functions transferred to the Secretary, in which case the suit shall be continued by the department, agency, or officer which was a party to the suit prior to the effective date of this Act). (d) With respect to any function, power, or duty transferred by this Act and exercised after the effective date of this Act, reference in any other Federal law to any department or agency, officer or office so transferred or functions of which are so transferred shall be deemed to mean the officer or agency in which this Act vests such function after such transfer. SEPARABILITY

SEC. 13. If any proyision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. CODIFICATION

SEC. 14. The Secretary is directed to submit to the Congress within two years from the effective date of this Act, a proposed codification of all laws that contain the powers, duties, and functions transferred to or vested in the Secretary or the Department by this Act. EFFECTIVE D A T E; I N I T I A L APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS Publication in Federal Register.

SEC. 15. (a) This Act shall take effect ninety days after the Secretary first takes office, or on such prior date after enactment of this Act as the President shall prescribe and publish in the Federal Register. (D) Any of the officers provided for in this Act may (notwithstanding subsection (a)) be appointed in the manner provided for in this Act, at any time after the date of enactment of this Act. Such officers shall be compensated from the date they first take office, at the rates provided for in this Act. Such compensation and related expenses of their offices shall be paid from funds available for the functions to be transferred to the Department pursuant to this Act. Approved October 15, 1966, 1:25 p.m. Public Law 89-671

October 15, 1966 [S. 34 23]

Wolf Trap Farm Park, Va. Establishment.

AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Fairfax Connty, Virginia, and for other purposes.

Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of establishing in the National Capital area a park for the performing arts and related educational programs, and for recreation use in connection therewith, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish, develop, improve, operate, and maintain the Wolf Trap

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