Volume 74 · 16
Public Law 86–409
To remove geographical limitations on activities of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes.
Approved April 5, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To remove geographical limitations on activities of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to define the functions and duties of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes”, approved
August 6, 1947 (33 U.S.C., sec. 883a), is amended—
by striking out “in the United States, its Territories, and possessions”;
by striking out “of coastal water and land areas (including survey of offlying islands, banks, shoals, and other offshore areas)”; and
by striking out all of paragraph (2), and by renumbering paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (6) as (2), (3), (4), and (5) respectively.
Approved April 5, 1960.