Volume 87 · 909
Public Law 93–211
To provide for the establishment of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac.
Approved December 28, 1973
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
To provide for the establishment of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac.
Whereas friends and admirers of the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson wish to pay tribute to him by developing a living memorial in the form of a Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac and have formed a committee, in cooperation with the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital. Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation established tinder the laws of the District of Columbia on April 21, 1965, to that end;
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac.
Establishment.
Interior is authorized to cooperate with the Committee for a Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac and the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital, Incorporated, in developing an appropriate memorial in the form of a living grove of trees and related facilities to honor Lyndon Baines Johnson, the thirty-sixth President of the United States.
Sec. 2.
The grove shall be located on a portion of the land designated by the Secretary of the Interior on November 12, 1968, as Lady Bird Johnson Park, Washington, District of Columbia. The design of the grove shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the National Capital Planning Commission, and the Commission of Fine Arts.
Sec. 3.
Unless funds in the amount which the Secretary of the
Conditions.
Interior determines are sufficient to insure completion of the memorial are certified available, and the development of the memorial is begun within ten years from the date of enactment of this joint resolution, the authorization granted by this joint resolution shall lapse. The United States shall be put to no expense in or by the development of the memorial.
Approved December 28, 1973.