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PUBLIC LAW 90-167-NOV. 29, 1967

[81 STAT.

by the State of Wasliin^on, the Secretary of the Army, or his desijjnee, is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, conderouation, donation, exchange, or otherwise on behalf of the United States part or all of such replacement lands: Provided further, That the State of Washington shall provide in advance funds for payment to landowners and shall reimburse the Secretary of the Army for all other administrative costs and expenditures incident to the acquisition of such lands. SEC. 3. The lands authorized to be exchanged and referred to in sections 1 and 2 of this Act are located in Yakima and Kittitas Counties, Washington, and are as generally depicted on the Land Management maj) on file in the office of the Seattle district engineer. North Pacific Division, Department of the Army, entitled "Proposed Route for Interstate Highway 1-82, Yakima Firing Center, Washington; numbered S E - R E 323.19". The lands to be conveyed by the United States comprise approximately two thousand two hundred acres situated west and northwesterly of the east right-of-way boundary of the proposed highway 1-82; the replacement lands to be acquired by the United States comprise approximately three thousand two hundred acres situated east of the proposed highway and contiguous to other lands of the Yakima Firing Center. The exact descriptions and acreage are to be determined by accurate surveys as mutually agreed upon between the State of Washington and the Secretary of the Army. SEC. 4. The lands so conveyed to or acquired by the United States shall become a part of the Yakima Firing Center and be administered by the Department of the Army. The Secretary of the Army is also authorized to accept from the State of Washington, or any agency or subdivision thereof, such appropriate interests in other lands as may be considered necessary for the protection of the interests of the United States in connection with the exchange. Approved November 29, 1967.

Public Law 90-167 November 29, 1967 [H. R. 3351]

Former Lighthouse Service prof e s s i o n a l personnel. Widows' b e n e fits. 64 Stat. 465.

Effective date.

AN ACT To amend the Act of August 19, 1950, to provide annuity benefits for an additional number of widows of employees of the Lighthouse Service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the first section of the Act of August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771), is amended by striking out "(other than a former employee whose position was classified in one of the grades of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or a comparable grade of the Classification Act of 1949, or who performed duties of a position comparable to a position so classified after the enactment of law requiring the classification of such positions)". (b) Section 2 of such Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 772), is amended by striking o u t " (other than an employee whose position was classified in one of the grades of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or a comparable grade of the Classification Act of 1949, or who performed duties of a position comparable to a position so classified after the enactment of law" requiring the classification of such positions)". SEC. 2. No payment shall be made by reason of the amendments made by this Act for any period prior to the first day of the first month following the month in which this Act is enacted. Approved November 29, 1967.

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