Volume 82 · 1213
Public Law 90–617
To a mend section 2 of tile Act of June 30, 1954, as amended, providing for the continuance of civil government for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Approved October 21, 1968
Statutory text
AN ACT
To a mend section 2 of tile Act of June 30, 1954, as amended, providing for the continuance of civil government for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2 of the
Pacific Trust Territory, civil government.
Appropriation.
Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), as amended, is amended by deleting “and $35,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1968 and 1969,” and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the following: “for fiscal year 1969, $5,000,000 in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, for fiscal year 1970, $50,000,000 and for fiscal year 1971, $50,000,000”.
Sec. 2.
The Act of June 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 330), as amended, is amended by adding a new section 3 as follows:
“Sec. 3.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums
Disaster relief.
as the Secretary of the Interior may find necessary, but not to exceed $10,000,000 for any one year, to alleviate suffering and damage resulting from major disasters that occur in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Such sums shall be in addition to those authorized in section 2 of this Act and shall not be subject to the limitations imposed by section 2 of this Act. The Secretary of the Interior shall determine whether or not a major disaster has occurred in accordance with the principles and policies of section 2 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (64 Stat. 1109), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1855a).”
Approved October 21, 1968.