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Digitized from Box 18 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library NOVEMBER 29, 1975 Office of the White House Press Secretary NOTICE TO THE PRESS The following information was made available by the White House Press Office on Saturday, November 29, 1975: 1. The following bills have been signed by the President: -- H.R. 8841 - Extend and amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. -- H. R. 10029 - Military Construction Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1976 - - which appropriates $3, 944, 114, 000 for military construction activities in fiscal year 1976 and the transition quarter. -- S. 1517 - Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1976. -- H.R. 9472 - Tennessee Valley Authority bond increase. Provides for an increase from $5 billion to $15 billion in additional borrowing authority for the TVA; provides for annual instead of semi-annual payments to the Treasury. -- H.R. 2343 - George W. Andrews Forestry Sciences Laboratory, which designated the new Forest Service Laboratory at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. -- S. 2195 - National Productivity and Quality of Working Life Act of 1975. 2. The following resignations have been accepted by the President: -- Dale Parnell, as a member and Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity effective today. -- Melvin L. Manfull as Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, effective upon a date to be determined. -- William A. Stoltzfus, Jr., as Ambassador to the State of Kuwait. He is retiring from the Foreign Service. -- The President has acknowledged the retirement of Frederick W. Kaess, as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. (MORE) - 2 - -- The President acknowledged the retirement of Ted Dalton as United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, effective upon the appointment and qualification of a successor. 3. The appointment of Secretary of Interior, Thomas S. Kleppe to the following three positions: Chairman of the Water Resources Council; Member of the Delaware River Basin Commission to serve as the Representative of the United States; Member of the Susquehanna River Basin Compact to serve as the Representative of the United States. 4. Message to Congress for the Senate's Advice and Consent to ratify the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, done at Oslo, Norway, November 15, 1973. 5. Message to Congress for the Senate's Advice and Consent to ratify the Protocol of Amendment to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) signed at San Jose July 26, 1975. 6. Appointment of three persons as Representatives of the United States, to participate as national correspondents in the U.N. program for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders for terms expiring December 31, 1980: Sylvia A. Bacon, of the District of Columbia; Lee P. Brown, of Portland, Oregon; Bernard Carey, of Chicago, Illinois. 7. Supplemental budget request for the Commission on Supplies and Shortages. 8. As delivered remarks of the President upon his departure for China. 9. Message to Congress returning without the President's approval of H.R. 12, a bill to provide for the protection of foreign diplomatic missions and to increase the size of the Executive Protective Service. # # #