Volume 80 · 258
Public Law 89–490
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with the Twelfth Boy Scouts World Jamboree and Twenty-first Boy Scouts World Conference to be held in the United States of America in 1967, and for other purposes.
Approved July 4, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with the Twelfth Boy Scouts World Jamboree and Twenty-first Boy Scouts World Conference to be held in the United States of America in 1967, 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 Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lend to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, for the use and accommodation of the approximately twenty-five thousand Scouts, Scouters, and officials who are to attend the World Jamboree, Boy Scouts, to be held at Farragut State Park, Idaho, and five hundred Scouters who are to attend the World Conference of Scout Associations in Seattle, Washington, following the Jamboree, in July and August 1967, such tents, cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and services as may be necessary or useful, to the extent that items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national defense program.
Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. No expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment.
The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, good and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.
Sec. 2.
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense and to the extent that furnishing such transportation will not interfere with military operations, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide transportation without expense to the United States Government from United States military commands overseas, and return, on surface and other transportation facilities of the armed services for (1) those Boy Scouts, Scouters, and officials certified by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, as representing the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, at the jamboree referred to in the first section of this Act; and (2) the equipment and property of such Boy Scouts, Scouters, and officials and the property loaned to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to this Act.
Before furnishing any transportation under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the United States by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, of the actual costs of transportation furnished under this section.
Sec. 3.
Amounts paid to the United States to reimburse it for expenses incurred under the first section and for the actual cost of transportation furnished under section 2 shall be credited to the current applicable appropriations or funds to which such expenses and costs were charged and shall be available for the same purposes as such appropriations or funds.
Sec. 4.
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, no fee shall be collected for the application for a visa by or the issuance of a visa to any Boy Scout, Scouter, or official whose association is certified by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, as representing another nation at the jamboree and world conference referred to in the first section of this Act. Further, the import and export of documents and paraphernalia needed by conference and jamboree delegates and representatives at said world conference and world jamboree will be guaranteed free entry and departure regardless of nationality.
Sec. 5.
Each department of the Federal Government is hereby authorized
Federal assistance.
under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary thereof to assist the Boy Scouts of America in the carrying out and the fulfillment of the plans for the encampment and conference referred to in sections 1, 2, and 4 of this Act.
Approved July 4, 1966.