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PUBLIC LAW 92-000—MMMM. DD, 1972
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PUBLIC LAW 92-496-OCT. 14, 1972

relocate, adjust, replace, remove, or abandon the same, as the case may be. The cost of relocation, adjustment, replacement, or removal, and the cost of abandonment of such facilities, shall be paid to the utility by the District of Columbia, as a part of the cost of such project, (b) As used in this section— (1) The term "utility" means any gas plant, gas corporation, electric plant, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telephone line, telegraph corporation, telegraph line, and pipeline company, whether publicly or privately owned, as those terms are defined in paragraph 1 of section 8 of the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to appropriation for expenses for the government of the District of Columbia) (D.C. Code, secs. 43-112—43-121). (2) The term "utility facility" means all real and personal property, buildings, and equipment owned or held by a utility in connection with the conduct of its lawful business. (3) The term "cost of relocation, adjustment, replacement, or removal" means the entire amount paid by such utility properly attributable to such relocation, adjustment, replacement, or removal, as the case may be, less any increase in value on account of any betterment of the new utility facilities over the old utility facilities, and less any salvage value derived from the old utility facilities. (4) The term "cost of abandonment" means the actual cost to abandon any utility facilities which are not to be used, relocated, adjusted, replaced, removed, or salvaged, together with the original cost of such abandoned facilities, less depreciation. SEC. 5. Section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act providing for a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia", approved June 11, 1878 (D.C. Code, sec. 7-605), is amended by inserting at the end thereof after the word "direct" a comma and the following phrase: "except as provided in sections 5(c) and 7(h) of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 and section 4 of the District of Columbia Public Utilities Reimbursement Act of 1972". Approved October 14, 1972.

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Public Law 92-496 AN ACT To extend the life of the Commission on Civil Rights, to expand the jurisdiction of the Commission to include discrimination because of sex, to authorize appropriations for the Commission, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 102(j) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C. 1975a(j); 71 Stat. 635), as amended, is further amended by striking therefrom the first and second sentences and substituting therefor the following: "A witness attending any session of the Commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States." SEC. 2. Section 103(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C. 1975b(a); 71 Stat. 635), as amended, is further amended by striking therefrom "the sum of $100 per day for each day spent in the work of the Commission," and substituting therefor "a sum equivalent to the compensation paid at level IV of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule, pursuant to section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, prorated on a daily basis for each day spent in the work of the Commission,". SEC. 3. Paragraph (1) or subsection (a) of section 104 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 tJ.S.C. 1975c(a); 71 Stat. 635), as amended, is further amended by inserting immediately after "religion," the following: "sex," and paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) of such

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Civil Rights Commission. Witness f e e s. 78 Stat. 249.

Compensation. 84 Stat. 1356.

83 Stat. 863. Sex discrimination.