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PUBLIC LAW 90-171-DEC. 4, 1967

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" (b) The Secretary shall from time to time appoint panels of experts who are competent to evaluate various types of research or demonstration projects under this section, and shall secure the advice and recommendations of one such panel before making any grant under this section. "ADVISORY COMMITTEE

"SEC. 503. (a)(1) The Secretary shall appoint an advisory committee which shall consist of seven members to advise him on matters of general policy relating to the administration of this title. Three members of such committee shall be individuals from the field of physical education, two members thereof shall be individuals from the field of recreation, and two members thereof shall be individuals with experience or special interest in the education of the mentally retarded or other handicapped children. "(2) The Secretary shall, from time to time, designate one of the members of such committee to serve as the chairman thereof. " (b) Members of the advisory committee and members of any panel appointed pursuant to section 502(b), who are not regular full-time employees of the United States, shall, while serving on the business of such committee or such panel, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, including travel time; and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including p>er diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703(b) of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently." Approved December 4, 1967.

Compensation, travel expenses.

80 Stat. 499.

Public Law 90-171 AN ACT December 4, 1967 [H.R. 10442] To facilitate exchanges of land nnder the Act of March 20. 1922 (42 Stat. -iS'j), for use for public schools, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-sentofh^es of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. That whenever an exchange of land is proposed by a public school district or other public school authority under the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended (16 U.S.C. 485, 486), or other authority under which the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to exchange national forest lands or other lands administered by the Forest Service, if the public school authority proposing the exchange has insufficient land to offer, the exchange may be completed upon deposit with the Secretary of Agriculture of a portion or all of the value of the selected land. Any amount so deposited shall be covered into a special fund in the Treasury which when appropriated shall be available until expended by the Secretary of Agriculture for the acquisition of lands in the same State as the selected lands and which are determined by him to be suitable for the same purposes as the selected lands. Lands so acquired shall have the same status and shall be subject to the same laws, regulations, and rules as the selected lands. The provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to the conveyance in exchange of more than eighty acres to any one public school district, or other public school authority. Approved December 4, 1967.

Public schools. Land exchanges in national forests. 43 Stat. 1090.

Limitation.

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