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PUBLIC LAW 369-MAY 27, 1954
Public Law 369 May 27, 1954
[H. R. 5862]
C an al Zone Corrosion Laboratory. Transfer.
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To authorize the Panama Canal Company to transfer the Canal Zone Corrosion Laboratory to the Department of the Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Panama Canal Company is authorized to transfer to the Department of the Xavy, without exchange of funds and for use as a laboratory for corrosion tests and related studies, all, or so much as may be mutually agreed upon, of the facilities, buildings, structures, improvements and test installations of the Panama Canal Company, comprising the Canal Zone Corrosion Laboratory at Miraflores, Canal Zone, and at the various test exposure sites in the Canal Zone and on Panama Canal Company property ii,i the city of Colon, Republic of Panama. Approved May 27, 1954. CHAPTER 227
AN ACT • • ••^•^ •• ' To repeal section 1174 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to the cooperation of medical officers with line officers in superintending cooking by enlisted men.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1174 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, is hereby repealed. Approved May 27, 1954.. Public Law 371
May 27, 1954 [H. R. 7328]
Aeronautical research f a c i l i t i e s. Construction. 64 Stat. 418.
Costs.
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CHAPTER 226
Public Law 370 May 27, 1954 [H. R. 7329]
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CHAPTER 228 AN ACT
To promote the national defense by authorizing the construction of aeronautical research facilities by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics necessary to the effective prosecution of aeronautical research.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That pursuant to subsection (b) of section 1 of Public Law 672, approved August 8, 1950 (50 U.S.C. 151b), the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is authorized to undertake additional construction, and to purchase and install additional equipment at the following locations: Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, Hampton, Virginia: High-speed hydrodynamic facility, $1,220,000. Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California: Alterations to two small supersonic tunnels, $349,000. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio: Alterations to an existing supersonic tunnel, air dryer for propulsion systems laboratory, air heater for altitude test chambers, and rocket engine research facility, $3,431,000. SEC. 2. Any of the approximate costs enumerated in section 1 of this Act may, in the discretion of the Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, be varied upwards 5 per centum to meet unusual cost variations, but the total cost of all work so enumerated shall not exceed $5,000,000. ir •.
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