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Volume 88 · 1154

Public Law 93–421

To authorize Federal agricultural assistance to Guam for certain purposes.

Approved September 19, 1974

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize Federal agricultural assistance to Guam for certain purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to provide financial and technical assistance to Guam for improving fire control, watershed protection and reforestation, consistent with existing Jaws, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, which are applicable to the continental United States. The program authorized by this section shall be developed in cooperation with the territorial government of Guam and shall be covered by a memorandum of understanding agreed to by the territorial government and the Department. The Secretary may also utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees of the Department, and may cooperate with other public agencies and with private organizations and individuals in Guam and elsewhere.

Sec. 2.

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sums appropriated in pursuance of this Act may be allocated to such agencies of the Department as are concerned with the administration of the program in Guam.

Approved September 19, 1974.

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