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22 usT 1056.

PUBLIC LAW 93-623-JAN. 3, 1975

[88 STAT.

"(2) The Secretary of State and the Postmaster General each shall take all necessary and appropriate actions to assure that the rates paid for the transportation of mail pursuant to the Universal Postal Union Convention shall not be higher than fair and reasonable rates for such services. The Secretary of State and the Postmaster General shall oppose any present or proposed Universal Postal Union rates which are higher than such fair and reasonable rates. "(3) The Civil Aeronautics Board shall act expeditiously on any proposed changes in rates for the transportation of mail by aircraft in foreign air transportation. I n establishing such rates, the Board shall take into consideration rates paid for transportation of mail pursuant to the Universal Postal Union Convention as ratified by the United States Government, shall take into account all of the ratemaking elements employed by the Universal Postal Union in fixing its airmail rates, and shall further consider the competitive disadvantage to United States flag air carriers resulting from foreign air carriers receiving Universal Postal Union rates for the carriage of United States mail and the national origin mail of their own countries." TRANSPORTATION OF G O V E R N M E N T - F I N A N C E D PASSENGERS A N D PROPERTY

SEC. 5. (a) Title X I of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1501 and the following) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "TRANSPORTATION OF GOVERNMENT-FINANCED PASSENGERS AND PROPERTY

49 USC 1517.

49 USC 1371.

"SEC. 1117. Whenever any executive department or other agency or instrumentality of the United States shall procure, contract for, or otherwise obtain for its own account or in furtherance of the purposes or pursuant to the terms of any contract, agreement, or other special arrangement made or entered into under which payment is made by the United States or payment is made from funds appropriated, owned, controlled, granted, or conditionally granted or utilized by or otherwise established for the account of the United States, or shall furnish to or for the account of any foreign nation, or any international agency, or other organization, of whatever nationality, without provisions for reimbursement, any transportation of persons (and their personal effects) or property by air between a place in the United States and a place outside thereof or between two places both of which are outside the United States, the appropriate agency or agencies shall take such steps as may be necessary to assure that such transportation is provided by air carriers holding certificates under section 401 of this Act to the extent authorized by such certificates or by regulations or exemption of the Civil Aeronautics Board and to the extent service by such carriers is available. The Comptroller General of the United States shall disallow any expenditure from appropriated funds for payment for such personnel or cargo transportation on an air carrier not holding a certificate under section 401 of this Act in the absence of satisfactory proof of the necessity therefor. Nothing in this section shall prevent the application to such traffic of the antidiscrimination provisions of this Act.". (b) That portion of the table of contents contained in the first section of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 which appears under the center heading " TITLE X I — M I S C E L L A N E O U S " is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: "Sec. 1117. Transportation of Government-financed passengers and property "

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