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61 STAT.] 80TH CONG., IST SESS.- CHS. 394, 395-JULY 30, 1947 [CHAPTER 394] AN ACT To permit the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War to supply utilities and related services to welfare activities, and persons whose businesses or residences are in the immediate vicinity of naval or military activities and require utilities or related services not otherwise obtainable locally, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of War, or their designees within their respective establishmients, are authorized to sell, under such regula- tions and at such prices as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, to welfare activities and private persons in the immediate vicinity of naval or military activities such utilities and related services as are not otherwise available from local, private, or public sources. SEC. 2. The utilities and related services authorized to be sold under this Act are (1) electric power, (2) steam, (3) compressed air, (4) water, (5) sewage and garbage disposal service, (6) gas (natural, manufactured, or mixed), (7) ice, and (8) mechanical refrigeration: Provided, That any utility or related service provided and sold under the authority of this Act shall not be so provided unless it is deter- mined by the Secretary concerned that the utility or related service is not available from a private or other public source, and that the fur- nishing thereof is in the public interest. SEC. 3. As may be required by the local needs, the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War, in carrying out the purposes of this Act, are authorized to effect minor expansions and extensions of the necessary distributing systems or facilities within the naval or military activity for those activities which it is determined may supply local services and utilities as described by section 2 herein. SEC. 4. The Act of June 13, 1940 (54 Stat. 383, 34 U. S. C. 553), is hereby repealed. SEC. 5 . The authority granted in sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act shall terminate at midnight on December 31, 1952. Approved July 30, 1947. [CHAPTER 395] ACT AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to Pennsylvania Power & Light Company to construct, maintain, and operate a dam in the Susquehanna River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, its successors or assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a dam in the Susquehanna River, at a point suitable to the interests of naviga- tion, approximately one and one-half miles below the Sunbury Bridge Company toll bridge, in Upper Augusta Township, Northumberland County and Monroe Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania: Pro- vided, That the work shall not be commenced until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That this Act shall not be construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water power or generate hydroelectric energy. SEC. 2 . The authority granted by this Act shall cease and be null and void, unless actual construction of the dam hereby authorized is commenced within two years and completed within five years from July 30, 1947 [H. R . 3055] [Public Law 284] Navy and War Departments. Sale of utilities. Restriction. Expansion, etc., of facilities. Repeal. Termination of au- thority. July 30, 1047 IIl. It . .3334 [Public Law B5], Susquehanna River. Construction, etc., ofdam. Approval of plans. Restriction. Time limitation.