Sec. 4. Reports to Congress.(a) The Secretary of Transportation shall, on or before June 80, 1974, submit an interim report, and on or before June 30, 1975, submit a final report, to the Congress on the operation and effects of this Act. Each such report shall give particular attention to such effects on the use of energy in the United States, traffic safety, including the safety of children traveling to and from school, and the effect on school hours. Each such report shall also include such recommendations for legislation or other action as the Secretary may determine. The final report shall include any recommendations of the Secretary with respect to time zone limits.
(b) The Secretary of Transportation shall consult with the departments, agencies, and insti-umentalities of the United States having information or expertise with respect to the operation and effects of this Act. Each such department, agency, and instrumentality shall exercise its powers, duties, and functions in such numner as will assist in carrying out the provisions of this section.
Sec. 5. The authority of the Secretary of Transportation, under the first section of the 40 Stat. 450; 80 Stat. 108.Act of March 19, 1918 (15 U.S.C. 261), to modify the limits of any time zone is suspended during the effective period of this Act.
Sec. 6. Notwithstanding any other law or any regulation issued under any such law, the Federal Communication Commission shall, consistent with any existing treaty or other agreement, make such adjustment by general rules, or by interim action pending such general rules, with respect to hours of operation of daytime standard amplitude modulation broadcast stations, as may be consistent with the public interest, including the public's interest in receiving interference-free service. Such general rules, or interim action, may include variances with respect to operating power and other technical operating characteristics. Subsequent to the adoption of such general rules, they may be varied with respect to particular stations and areas because of the exigencies in each case.
Sec. 7. Effective date.This Act shall take effect at 2 o'clock antemeridian on the fourth Sunday which occurs after the date of enactment of this Act and shall terminate at 2 o'clock antemeridian on the last Sunday of April 1975.
Approved December 15, 1973.
Public Law 93-183
December 15, 1973[S. 1618]
AN ACT
To name the headquarters building in the Geological Survey National Center under construction in Reston, Virginia, as the "John Wesley Powell Federal Building".John Wesley Powell Federal Building, Va.
Designation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the headquarters building in the Department of Interior's Geological Survey National Center now under construction in Reston, Virginia, shall hereafter be known and designated as the "John Wesley Powell Federal Building". Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, record, or other paper of the United States to such building shall be held to be a reference to the "John Wesley Powell Federal Building".
Approved December 15, 1973.
