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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1976

PUBLIC LAW 94^357—JULY 12, 1976

90 STAT. 909

(b) Nothing in this Act shall deprive the State of Washington or any political subdivisions thereof of its right to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction within the area or of its right to tax persons, corporations, franchises, or other non-Federal property, in or on lands and waters within the area. AirrHORIZATION- OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 8. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the acquisi- 16 USC 1132 tion of lands and interests to carry out the purposes of this Act, not note, more than $20,000,000 in fiscal year 1977, $17,000,000 in fiscal year 1978, and $20,000,000 in fiscal year 1979, such sums to remain available until appropriated without fiscal year limitation. To prepare the multiple-use plan required by section 6 of this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated not more than $500,000. Appropriation requests by the President to implement the multiple-use plan shall express in qualitative and quantitative terms the most rapid and judicious manner and methods to achieve the purposes of this Act. Amounts appropriated to carry out this Act shall be expended in accordance with the Budget Eeform and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297). 31 USC 1301 note.

Approved July 12, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1154 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 94-1002 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): June 8, considered and passed House. June 29, considered and passed Senate.