Hurricane Betsy Disaster of September 1965: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Areas of Destruction of Hurricane Betsy of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session. New Orleans, Louisiana September 25, 1965, Baton Rouge, Louisiana September 26, 1965

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Committee Serial No. 89-23. Investigates property damage in southern Louisiana caused by Hurricane Betsy. Sept. 25 hearing was held in New Orleans; Sept. 26 hearing was held in Baton Rouge.

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Page 20 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 14 - The financial transactions of the corporation for any fiscal year during which Federal funds are available to finance any portion of its operations may be audited annually by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Page 18 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations of the Administrator to be issued hereunder and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under such Act as amended, are extended to include any purchase of such notes and obligations.
Page 18 - Such notes or other obligations shall bear interest at a- rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average rate on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities as of the last day of the month preceding the issuance of such notes or obligations.
Page 18 - Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Such notes or other obligations shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 14 - Secretary notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, shall — (1) prepare annually and submit a budget program as provided for wholly owned Government corporations by the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended ; and (2) maintain an integral set of accounts which shall be audited annually by the General Accounting Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial transactions as provided by the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, and no other...
Page 18 - Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchases of such notes and obligations. The Secretary of the Treasury may at any time sell any of the notes or other obligations acquired by him under this section. All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of such notes or other obligations shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States.
Page 14 - Provided, That such financial transactions of the Administrator as the making of loans and vouchers approved by the Administrator in connection with such financial transactions shall be final and conclusive upon all officers of the Government.
Page 20 - That any such acquisition of real property shall not deprive any State or political subdivision thereof of its civil or criminal jurisdiction in and over such property or impair the civil rights under the State or local laws of the inhabitants on such property...
Page 19 - Stat. 1421), for such public works. "(b) By contract or otherwise (without regard to sections 1136, as amended, and 3709 of the Revised Statutes, section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412...

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