1911

LANDS REVERTING TO THE UNITED STATES, PAYMENT FOR IMPROVEMENTS, SWEETWATER COUNTY

An act to provide for reimbursement to the State of Wyoming for improvements made on certain lands in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, if and when such lands revert to the United States. (Act of November 5, 1966, Public Law 89-760, 80 Stat. 1308) [Secretary of the Interior to reimburse State for improvements should land revert to the United States.]—The Secretary of Agriculture, having conveyed certain lands situated in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, to the State of Wyoming by reason of and in accordance with the provisions of that deed of June 6, 1962, executed pursuant to the Act of March 20, 1962 (76 Stat. 44), and having included in such deed provision that, if the lands so conveyed to the State of Wyoming should cease to be used in the cooperative agricultural demonstration work of the United States, Department of Agriculture, and the State of Wyoming, title to the lands thus conveyed shall revert to and become revested in the United States of America; the Secretary of the Interior be hereby authorized, at such time as said reversionary provision might become effective, to reimburse the State of Wyoming from whatever funds may be available to him, for those permanent improvements made by said State of Wyoming and remaining on said lands at the time such reversion of title becomes effective in an amount not to exceed the current fair market value of said improvement as determined by appraisal made at that time. (80 Stat. 1308)

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Not Codified. This Act is not codified in the U.S. Code.

Reference in the Text. The Act of March 20, 1962 (76 Stat. 44), referred to in the text, appears herein in chronological order.

Editor's Note, Annotations. Annotations of opinions are not included because this statute does not deal primarily with the

activities of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Legislative History. S. 84, Public Law 89-760 in the 89th Congress. Reported in Senate from Interior and Insular Affairs, October 7, 1966; S. Rept. No. 1699. Passed Senate October 10, 1966. Passed House October 17, 1966. Companion bill H.R. 4429; H.R. Rept. No. 1976.

1912

DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 1966

[Extracts from] An act to provide additional assistance for areas suffering a major disaster. (Act of November 6, 1966, Public Law 89-769, 80 Stat. 1316)

[Sec. 1. Short Title.]-This Act may be cited as the "Disaster Relief Act of 1966". (80 Stat. 1316; 42 U.S.C. § 1855aa note)

Sec. 9. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to reimburse not more than 50 per centum of eligible costs incurred to repair, restore, or reconstruct any project of a State, county, municipal. or other local government agency for flood control, navigation, irrigation, reclamation, public power, sewage treatment, water treatment, watershed development, or airport construction which was damaged or destroyed as a result of a major disaster, and of the resulting additional eligible costs incurred to complete any such facility which was in the process of construction when damaged or destroyed as a result of such major disaster. Eligible costs are defined to mean those costs determined by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning as incurred or to be incurred in (1) restoring a public facility to substantially the same condition as existed prior to the damage resulting from the major disaster, and (2) completing construction not performed prior to the major disaster to the extent the increase of such costs over original construction costs is attributable to changed conditions resulting from the major disaster. Reimbursement under this section shall be made to the State, county, municipal, or other local governmental agency which is constructing the public facility or for which it is being constructed, except that if the economic burden of the eligible costs of repair, restoration, reconstruction or completion is incurred by an individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity (other than an organization engaged in the business of insurance), the State, county, municipality, or other local governmental agency shall reimburse such individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity not to exceed 50 per centum of those costs. Eligible costs shall not include any costs for which reimbursement is received pursuant to insurance contracts or otherwise by the party incurring the economic burden of such costs. (80 Stat. 1320; 42 U.S.C. § 1855ee)

DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS

Sec. 10. The head of each department or agency of the Federal government administering any program providing financial assistance to persons, business concerns, or other entities suffering losses as the result of a major disaster shall administer such program in a manner which will assure that no such person, concern, or other entity will receive such assistance with respect to any part of

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such loss as to which he has received financial assistance under any other such program. (80 Stat. 1320; 42 U.S.C. § 1855ff)

Sec. 14. This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to any major disaster occurring after October 3, 1964. (80 Stat. 1321; 42 U.S.C. § 1855aa note)

EXPLANATORY Notes

1912

DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 1966

[Extracts from] An act to provide additional assistance for areas suffering a major disaster. (Act of November 6, 1966, Public Law 89-769, 80 Stat. 1316)

[Sec. 1. Short Title.]-This Act may be cited as the "Disaster Relief Act of 1966". (80 Stat. 1316; 42 U.S.C. § 1855aa note)

Sec. 9. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to reimburse not more than 50 per centum of eligible costs incurred to repair, restore, or reconstruct any project of a State, county, municipal, or other local government agency for flood control, navigation, irrigation, reclamation, public power, sewage treatment, water treatment, watershed development, or airport construction which was damaged or destroyed as a result of a major disaster, and of the resulting additional eligible costs incurred to complete any such facility which was in the process of construction when damaged or destroyed as a result of such major disaster. Eligible costs are defined to mean those costs determined by the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning as incurred or to be incurred in (1) restoring a public facility to substantially the same condition as existed prior to the damage resulting from the major disaster, and (2) completing construction not performed prior to the major disaster to the extent the increase of such costs over original construction costs is attributable to changed conditions resulting from the major disaster. Reimbursement under this section shall be made to the State, county, municipal, or other local governmental agency which is constructing the public facility or for which it is being constructed, except that if the economic burden of the eligible costs of repair, restoration, reconstruction or completion is incurred by an individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity (other than an organization engaged in the business of insurance), the State, county, municipality, or other local governmental agency shall reimburse such individual, partnership, corporation, agency, or other entity not to exceed 50 per centum of those costs. Eligible costs shall not include any costs for which reimbursement is received pursuant to insurance contracts or otherwise by the party incurring the economic burden of such costs. (80 Stat. 1320; 42 U.S.C. § 1855ee)

DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS

Sec. 10. The head of each department or agency of the Federal government administering any program providing financial assistance to persons, business concerns, or other entities suffering losses as the result of a major disaster shall administer such program in a manner which will assure that no such person, concern, or other entity will receive such assistance with respect to any part of

DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 1966

such loss as to which he has received financial assistance under any other such program. (80 Stat. 1320; 42 U.S.C. § 1855ff)

Sec. 14. This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to any major disaster occurring after October 3, 1964. (80 Stat. 1321; 42 U.S.C. § 1855aa note)

EXPLANATORY NOTES