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permit, or other
proposed transportation or storage plan, and no such license,
authorization or permission may be granted nor many any such transportation
or sternce oceur unless the proposed transportation or storage plan has heen
xperiteatly authorized by Act of Congress: irecided, That the provisions of this

section shall not apply to the cleanup and rehabilitation of Bikini and Enewetak

Atolls,
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(b) For the purpose of this section, the words “territory or possession , include
the Trust Territory of the Pacifie fslands and any area not within the boundaries
of the several States over which the United States claims or exercises
sovereignty.

Sec. GOG. (a) Section § of the Act cf Mareh 2. 117 (“Jones Act’), as amended
(48 U.S.C. § 749) is amended by adding the following after the last sentence

thereof:
“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, as nsed in this section (1) submerged lands underlying navigable bodies of water include lands permanently
or periodically covered by tidal waters up to but not above the line of mean
high tide, all lands underlying the navigable bodies of water in and around

the island of Puerto Rico und the adjacent islands, and all artificinlly-ciade,

filed in or reclaimed lands which formerly were lands beneath navigable bodies
of water; (2) ‘navigable bodies of water and submerged lands underlying the
sawe in and around the island of Puerto Rico and the adjacent islands and
watery’ extend from the coast line of the islands of Puerto Rico and the adjacent
islands as heretofore or hereafter modified by uceretion, erosion or reliction, seuwird to a distance of three isarine leagues; (3) ‘control’ includes all right.
title and interest in and to upd jurisdiction and authority ever the submerged
Jands widerlying the harbor areas and navigable streams and bodies of water in
and around the island of Puerto Rieo nud the adiacent islands and waters, und
the natural resources underlying such submerged linds and waters, and inefudes
proprietary richts of ownership, and the rights uf management, udministration,
leasing, use and development of such natural resources and submerged lands
beneath such witers.”.
(b) Section 7 of the Act of March 2, 1917, (‘Jones Act’), as amended, (48
U.S.C. $747) is amended by adding the following after the last sentence thereof:
“Notwithstanding any other provision of Jaw, as used in this seetion ‘control’
includes all right, title and interest in and to and jurisdiction and authority over
the aforesaid property and includes proprictary rights ef ownership, aud the
rights of management, administration, leasing, use and development of such
property."

Purvose or Tun MEASURE

The purpose of H.R. 3756 is to provide a series of necessary au-

thorizations, technical. and clarifying amendments, and program ex-

tensions or modifications for the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the

‘Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico.
Sumsary or Mason Provisions

TITLE. I—TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

This title authorizes appropriations for the civil government of the
Trust Territory for fiscal year 1981 and beyond; modifies the present
program for environmental monitoring of and health care for those
populations affected by radiation from the United States Nuclear

Testing Program; and clarifies the existing program to compensate
victims of radioactive fallout from the testing prograin.
TITLE

TE-—NORTITERN

MARANA

ISLANDS

This title authorizes funds for health care needs of the residents of

the Northern Mariana Islands and imakes technical and clarifying
amendments.

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