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81 Stat. 951. D. C Code title 1 app. 81 Stat. 949.

PUBLIC LAW 90-456-AUG. 3, 1968

[82 STAT.

force with respect to contracts for which invitations for bids have been issued on or before the effective date of this Act, and to persons or bonds in respect of such contracts. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect upon the expiration of sixty days after the date of its enactment, but shall not apply to any contract awarded pursuant to any invitation for bids issued on or before the date it takes effect, or to any person or bond in respect of any such contract. SEC. 9. Effective on the effective date of this Act or on the effective date of part IV of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, whichever is later, the functions vested in the Board of Commissioners by this Act shall be deemed to be vested in the Commissioner appointed pursuant to part III of such plan. Approved August 3, 1968.

Public Law 90-456 August 3, 1968 [S.J. R e s. 193]

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communic ations. Designation.

JOINT RESOLUTION To designate the National Center for liioniedieal Conmiunications the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications.

Whereas, during his long and distinguished career in the Congress, Senator Lister Hill has achieved more forward-looking legislation relating to improved health and educational opportunities for the American people than any other individual in the history of this body; and AVhereas, Senator Hill's legislative interests in health, in education, and in libraries are epitomized in the National Library of Medicine, to whose establishment and development Senator Hill has paid particular attention during the course of his career; and Whereas, a National Center for Biomedical Communications to be constructed and k)cated as a part of this Library has been proposed by two legislators of the House, the late John E. Fogarty of Rhode Island, and Paul G. Eogers of Florida; and further that this Center has been strongly endorsed by representatives of the scientific community as an urgently required facility for the improvement of communications necessary for health education, research, and practice; and further that this Center would function to contribute enduringly to the life-long objectives of Senator Hill's legislative career: Be it therefore Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Center be named and designated as the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, thus perpetuating the name of the distinguished Senator from Alabama, and the legislative interests of his long and fruitful career in the United States Senate. Approved August 3, 1968.

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