provisions of this Act shall contain a reservation to the United States of the oil, gas, and all other mineral deposits, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under applicable law and such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. [Provided further, That any employee of the Department of the Interior, stationed in Alaska, notwithstanding such employment, may in the discretion of the Secretary, purchase or lease one such tract in the Territory of Alaska, except business sites, under this Act.]

SEC. 3. Alease may be issued or a sale made under this Act to any of the following: (a) An individual who is a citizen of the United States, or who has filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen as required by the naturalization laws; (b) a partnership or an association, each of the members of which is a citizen of the United States or has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen; (c) a corporation, including nonprofit corporations, organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, and authorized to do business in the State or Territory in which the land is located; (d) a State, Territory, municipality, or other governmental subdivision. SEC. 4. Any employee of the Department of the Interior, stationed in Alaska, notwithstanding such employment, may, in the discretion of the Secretary, purchase or lease under this Act one tract for residence or recreation purposes in the Territory of Alaska []; provided, however, that any conveyance by the Secretary to such employee shall contain a provision under which said tract shall revert to the United States if used, within twenty-five years after issuance of patent for such tract, for other than residential or recreation purposes.

SEC. 5. The authority to lease lands under this Act shall extend to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands situated in the State of Oregon and under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior [.], except that

(a) such lands shall be leased only for residential, recreational, or community site purposes and not for business purposes; and

(b) no lease of such lands shall be made if such lease would interfere with the application of the sustained yield timber management requirement established with respect to such lands by the Act entitled "An Act relating to the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands situated in the State or Oregon", approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874).

83D CONGRESS 2d Session

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REPORT No. 1331

AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT AS UNITED STATES COMMIS SIONER, INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, OF COL. LELAND HAZELTON HEWITT, UNITED STATES ARMY, RETIRED

MAY 13, 1954.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. WILEY, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 3457]

The Committee on Foreign Relations, having had under consideration draft legislation to authorize the appointment as United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, of Col. Leland Hazelton Hewitt, United States Army, retired, and for other purposes, report without objection an original bill (S. 3457) and recommend that it do pass.

PURPOSE OF BILL

This bill authorizes the appointment of Col. Leland Hazelton Hewitt, United States Army, retired, as United States Commissioner on the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico.

Special authorization is required because of the provisions of the Act of July 31, 1894, which bar retired officers of the armed services with retired pay of more than $2,500 from other public offices to which compensation is attached. The pending bill will exempt Colonel Hewitt from this limitation and permit him to accept the salary of United States Commissioner in lieu of his retired pay, without prejudice to his rights as a retired officer. According to the Defense Department, this will cause no apparent increase in the budgetary requirements for the Defense Department.

COMMITTEE ACTION

This legislation was proposed in a letter dated April 13, 1954, from the Secretary of the Army, the Honorable Robert T. Stevens, to the

President of the Senate and referred to the committee on April 14, 1954. The committee, on May 12, 1954, ordered the bill reported favorably without objection. A similar bill, H. R. 9004, was introduced in the House on May 5 by Representative Dewey Short and is presently pending in the House Armed Services Committee.

PRECEDENTS

There are many precedents for this type of action in the Congress. Recent examples are Private Law 297 (81st Cong.), which concerned the appointment of Paul A. Smith to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization; Private Law 973 (81st Cong.), which authorized the appointment of Henry A. Byroade as Director of the Bureau of German Affairs in the Department of State; and Private Law 428 (79th Cong.), which authorized the appointment of Walter B. Smith as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

In approving this bill, the committee does so in the belief that the statutory prohibition on the civil employment of retired officers of the armed services is wise and that exemptions should be made only after careful study and in cases where exceptional qualifications exist.

RECOMMENDATION

The committee feels that Colonel Hewitt is unusually qualified for the position to which the President of the United States desires to appoint him. The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, is charged with a great many functions relating to the equitable distribution of water between the United States and Mexico, construction of storage dams and other works, generation of hydroelectric power, flood control, and the operation of sanitation projects. Colonel Hewitt received his formal education at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked for many years with the Army Corps of Engineers, particularly in their civil-engineering activities. He will bring unique knowledge and experience to the Commission. The committee, therefore, urges the Senate to give its approval to this bill enabling the President to appoint Colonel Hewitt as Commissioner.

Mr. STENNIS, from the Committee on Armed Services, submitted the following REPORT

[To accompany S. 3446]

The Committee on Armed Services, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3446) to amend the act of January 6, 1951 (64 Stat. 1221), by authorizing certain rehabilitation at the United States Military Academy, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment, and recommend that the bill, as amended, do pass.

AMENDMENT TO THE BILL

Amend the bill as follows:

Amend the title by striking the words "and for other purposes".

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the rehabilitation of two barracks at the United States Military Academy.

EXPLANATION OF THE BILL

Senate members of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy have been very deeply impressed by the need for certain rehabilitation of barracks there.

The construction that would be authorized by this bill is one of the items in the 1955 military public-works construction authorization now pending in the Congress. However, if this work is to be completed and the barracks available for occupancy at the beginning of the fall term, it is essential that this construction be authorized

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