LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law
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Water resource development, feasibility investigations. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibiliy investigations of certain water resource developments, and for other purposes Oct. 3, 1980 Coast Guard, appropriation authorization. AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year 1981, to authorize supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1980, and for other purposes.... Oct. 3, 1980 U.S. savings bonds, interest rate increase. AN ACT To facilitate the management of the public debt by permitting an increase in the investment yield on United States savings bonds above the existing 7 per centum ceiling, and by increasing the amount of the bonds paying interest in excess of iVi percentum which may be outstanding Oct. 3, 1980 Sniall vessels, inspection and manning. AN ACT To amend certain inspection and manning laws applicable to small vessels carrying passengers or freight for hire, and for other purposes Oct. 6, 1980 Dams, name changes. AN ACT To change the name of the Los Esteros Dam (New Mexico) to the Santa Rosa Dam and Lake, and to designate Clark Hill Dam and Lake on the Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina as "Clarks Hill Dam and Lake" Oct. 6, 1980 Towing Safety Advisory Committee, establishment. AN ACT To establish a Towing Safety Advisory Committee in the Department of Transportation Oct. 6, 1980 Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 204 of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for title II of such Act for fiscal year 1980 Oct. 6, 1980 Maritime torts, statute of limitations. AN ACT To provide for a uniform national three-year statute of limitations in actions to recover damages for personal injury or death, arising out of a maritime tort, and for other purposes Oct. 6, 1980 William H. Harsha Lake and William H. Harsha Dam, designation. AN ACT To rename a reservoir and dam in the Little Miami River Basin, Ohio, as the "William H. Harsha Lake" and the "William H. Harsha Dam" Oct. 6, 1980 Ray Roberts Lake, designation. AN ACT To change the name of Aubrey Lake, Texas, to Ray Roberts Lake.. Oct. 6, 1980 Veterans' Disability Compensation and Housing Benefits Amendments of 1980. AN ACT To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide cost-of-living increases in the rates of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and in the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children of veterans, to provide for limited grants for special home adaptations for certain severely disabled veterans, to provide for Veterans' Administration guaranties for loans to refinance certain existing veterans' home loans and to increase the maximum loan guaranties for home loans made to veterans, and to provide for the confidentiality of certain Veterans' Administration medical quality assurance records; and for other purposes Oct. 7, 1980 Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act of 1980. AN ACT To provide for an accelerated program of research and development of magnetic fusion energy technologies leading to the construction and successful operation of a magnetic fusion demonstration plant in the United States before the end of the twentieth century to be carried out by the Department of Energy Oct. 7, 1980
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