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PUBLIC LAW 85-80-JULY 3, 1957

which involves the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction or expansion undertaken by the Commission as a part of such arrangements. "b. The acts appropriating such sums may appropriate specified portions thereof to be accounted for upon the certification of the Commission only." SEC. 2. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended by adding a new section 58 with appropriate amendment to the table of contents, as follows: "SEC. 58. REVIEW.—Before the Commission establishes any fair price or guaranteed fair price period in accordance with the provisions of section 56, or establishes any criteria for the waiver of any charge for the use of special nuclear material licensed or distributed under section 53 the proposed fair price, guaranteed fair price period, or criteria for the waiver of such charge shall be submitted to the Joint Committee, and a period of forty-five days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such forty-five days there shall be excluded the days in which either House is not in session because of adjournment for more than three days^: Provided, however, That the Joint Committee, after having received the proposed fair price, guaranteed fair price period, or criteria for the waiver of such charge, may by resolution waive the conditions of or all or any portion of such forty-five day period." Approved July 3, 1957.

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Public Law 85-80 AN ACT To exempt from taxation certain property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States in the District of Columbia.

July 3, 1957 [S. 1264]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That certain prop- forHuro^ic^p^eserty in the District of Columbia described as lots numbered 42, 43, 44, ervation in the 45, and 46 in the subdivision of lot numbered 36 in square numbered Vax exemption. 167, as said subdivision is recorded in the office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in book W. B. M., at folio 293, now known as lot 46 and lot 809, in square numbered 167, together with the improvements thereon and the furnishings therein, being premises numbered 748 Jackson Place, Northwest, known as "Decatur House," owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, a corporation chartered by Act of Congress, approved October 26, 1949, be exempt from all taxation, so long as the same is used in carrying on the purposes and activities of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, and is not used for commercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sections 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia", approved December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1091; D. C. Code, secs. 47-801b, 47-801c, and 47-801e). Use of the premises by agencies of the United States of America or by the Truxtun-Decatur Naval Museum of the Naval Historical Foundation for museum purposes and conference accommodations shall not affect the exemption from taxation provided for herein. Any real estate taxes, penalties or interest on the aforesaid property which may be due to the District of Columbia with respect to periods after the property was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States shall be abated. Approved July 3, 1957.