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PUBLIC LAW 211-AUG. 7. 1953

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SEC. 619. So much of the authority of the Secretary of the Air Force under section 301 of Public Law 534, Eighty-second Congress, to proceed with public works projects as is represented by the following amounts with respect to the following installations is rescinded: Sioux City Municipal Airport, Sioux City, Iowa: $17,000,000. Houma Gunnery Range, Houma, Louisiana: $3,000,000. Charlotte County Airport, Punta Gorda, Florida: $2,731,000. Godman Air Force Base, Fort Knox, Kentucky: $995,000. Approved August 7, 1953. Public Law 210

66 Stat. 613.

CHAPTER 3 4 3

AN ACT To amend section 202 of the Federal Power Act, with respect to the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission over persons and facilities engaged in the transmission or sale of electric energy to foreign countries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 202 of part II of the Federal Power Act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection: " (f) The ownership or operation of facilities for the transmission or sale at wholesale of electric energy which is (a) generated within a State and transmitted from that State across an international boundary and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, or (b) generated in a foreign country and transmitted across an international boundary into a State and not thereafter transmitted into any other State, shall not make a person a public utility subject to regulation as such under other provisions of this part. The State within which any such facilities are located may regulate any such transaction insofar as such State regulation does not conflict with the exercise of the Commission's powers under or relating to subsection 202 (e)." Approved August 7, 1953. Public Law 211

August 7, 1953 [S.1442]

Electric energy. Transmission or sale. 49 Stat. 847. 16 USC 824a.

CHAPTER 344 AN ACT

To amend section 39 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended.

August 7, 1953 August 7, l i

[8.2315]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 39 of 62 1246. the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, is 50 Stat. app. 3 9. use amended by inserting " (a) " after "SEC. 39." and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: War Claims Fund. "(b) The Attorney General is authorized and directed, immediateh'^ Sums for deposit. upon the enactment of this subsection, to cover into the Treasury oi the United States, for deposit into the War Claims Fund, from property vested in or transferred to him under this Act, such sums, not to exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate, as may be necessary to satisfj'^ unpaid awards heretofore or hereafter made under the War Claims 62 Stat. 1240. Act of 1948. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 50 USC app.2001 Attorney G( leral such sums as may be necessary to replace the sums ""^e deposited by him pursuant to the foregoing sentence." Approved August 7, 1953. 27000 O - 53 - 32