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PUBLIC LAW 91-514-OCT. 27. 1970

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(d) Any orders, rules, and regulations which have been promulgated under any law affected by this title and which are in effect on the day preceding enactment of this title shall continue in effect until modified, superseded, or repealed. TITLE IV — R E P O R T ON A D VI S O R Y C O U N C I L S REPORT ON ADVISORY Reports to e o n gress.

58 Stat. 6 8 2. 42 USC 201 note. 77 Stat. 282. 42 USC 2661 note.

" S t a t u to r y advisory council,»»

COUNCILS

SEC. 1200. (a) Not later than March 31 of each calendar year after 1970, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall submit a report on the activities of advisory councils (established or organized pursuant to any applicable statute of the Public Health Service Act, Public Law 410, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended, or the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, Public Law 88-164, as amended) to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives. Such report shall contain, at least, a list of all such advisory councils, the names and occupations of their members, a description of the function of each advisory council, and a statement of the dates of the meetings of each advisory council. (b) If the Secretary determines that a statutory advisory council is not needed or that the functions of two or more statutory advisory councils should be combined, he shall include in the report a recommendation that such advisory council be abolished or that such functions be combined. (c) As used in this section, the term "statutory advisory council" means any committee, board, commission, council, or other similar group established or organized pursuant to any applicable statute to advise and make recommendations with respect to the administration or improvement of an applicable program or other related matter. Approved October 27, 1970.

Public Law 91-514 October 27, 1970 [H. R. 14678]

U.S. territorial waters. Illegal fishing, penalties. 78 Stat. 195.

AN ACT To strengthen the penalties for illegal Ashing in the territorial waters and the contiguous fishery zone of the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to prohibit fishing in the territorial waters of the United States and in certain other areas by vessels other than vessels of the United States and by persons in charge of such vessels", approved May 20, 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1082), is amended— (1) by striking out "$10,000" in subsection (a) thereof and inserting in lieu thereof "$100,000", and (2) by adding at the end of subsection (b) the following new sentence: "For the purposes of this Act, it shall be a rebuttable presumption that all fish found aboard a vessel seized in connection with such violation of this Act were taken or retained in violation of this Act."

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