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 1968

PUBLIC LAW 93-608-JAN. 2, 1975

[88 STAT.

the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants. REPORTS U N D E R THE DEPARTMENT OF D E F E N S E Reports to Cong r e s s, elimination.

22 USC 1819.

Repeal. Reports to Cong r e s s i o n a l committee s, elimination.

(5) Section 8031(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out the last sentence thereof, thereby eliminating the annual report to the Congress by the Secretary of the Air Force on the number of officers in the executive part of the Department of the Air Force and the j ustification therefor. • (6) Section 3031(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking out the last sentence thereof, thereby eliminating the quarterly report by the Secretary of the Army to the Congress on the number of officers in the executive part of the Department of the Army, the number of commissioned officers on or with the Army General Staff and the justification therefor. (7) Section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriations Act, 1956 (69 Stat. 439), is amended by striking out Provided,''\ where it first appears, and all that follows thereafter down to and including '•''Provided further,'^ where it first appears, and inserting in lieu thereof '"'•Provided", and section 102 of the Mutual Security Appropriations Act, 1957 (70 Stat. 734), is repealed, thereby eliminating the quarterly reports by the Secretary of Defense to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives concerning items ordered, but yet to be delivered, against reserves of unobligated amounts of allocations for military assistance and those reports required not less often than each quarter containing a detailed breakdown, on a delivery or service-rendered basis, on all military assistance funds allocated and available to the Department of Defense as of the end of the preceding quarter. REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF H E A L T J r, E D U C A T I O N, A N D WEEF*ARE

Annual repc to C o n g r e s s, elimination.

(8) Section 16(c) of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (81 Stat. 251; 29 U.S.C. 42a(c)), is amended by striking out paragraph (2) and by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively, thereby eliminating the annual report of the National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, through the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, to the Congress with comments and recommendations as the Secretary deems appropriate. REPORTS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF H O U S I N G AND U R B A N DEVELOPMENT

Repeal, Reports to cong r e s s i o n a l committee s, elimination.

(9) Section 5 of the Housing and LTrban Development Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 477; 12 U.S.C. 1701c note) is repealed, thereby eliminating the annual report by the Secretary to the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate, identifying specific areas of program administration and management which require improvement, describing actions taken and proposed for the purpose of making such improvements, and recommending such legislation as may be necessary to accomplish such improvements. REPORTS U N D E R THE DEPARTMENT OF THE

INTERIOR

(10) Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to direct the Secretary of Interior to cooperate with the States of New York and New Jersey on a program to develop, preserve, and restore the resources of the Hudson River and its shores and to authorize certain necessary steps to be taken to protect those resources from adverse Federal actions until the States and Congress shall have had an opportunity to act on that program", approved September 26, 1966 (80 Stat. 848), is

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