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JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL AREAS WITHIN THE STATES

REPORT OF THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL AREAS WITHIN THE STATES

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PART I
The Facts and Committee Recommendations Submitted to the Attorney General and transmitted to the President
April 1956
Reprinted by Constitutional Research Associates P.O. Box 550 So. Holland, Illinois 06473

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Federal Jurisdiction -- 003

The White House, Washington, April 27, 1956 DEAR MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I am herewith returning to you, so that it may be published and receive the widest possible distribution among those interested in Federal real property matters, Part I of the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee for Study of Jurisdiction over Federal Areas within the States. I am impressed by the well- planned effort which went into the study underlying this report and by the soundness of the recommendations which the report makes. It would seem particularly desirable that the report be brought to the attention of the Federal administrators of real properties, who should be guided by it in matters related to legislative jurisdiction, and to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and appropriate State officials, for their consideration of necessary legislation. I hope that you will see to this. I hope, also, that the General services Administration will establish as soon as may be possible a central source of information concerning the legislative jurisdictional status of Federal properties and that agency, with the Bureau of the Budget and the Department of Justice, will maintain a continuing and concerted interest in the progress made by all Federal agencies in adjusting the status of their properties in conformity with the recommendations made in the report. The members of the committee and the other officials, Federal and State, who participated in the study, have my appreciation and congratulations on this report. I hope they will continue their good efforts so that the text of the law on the subject of legislative jurisdiction which is planned as a supplement will issue as soon as possible. Sincerely, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. The Honorable Herbert Brownell, Jr., The Attorney General, Washington, D.C.

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Office of the Attorney General, Washington, D.C., April 27,1956.

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: On my recommendation, and with your approval, there was organized on December 15, 1954, an interdepartmental committee to study problems of jurisdiction related to federally owned property within the States. This Committee has labored diligently during the ensuing period and now has produced a factual report (part I), together with recommendations for changes in Federal agency practices, and in Federal and State laws, designed to eliminate existing problems arising out of Federal-State Jurisdictional situations. Subject to your approval, I shall bring the report and recommendations to the attention of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the purpose of bringing about consideration of the Federal legislative proposals involved to the attention of State officials through established channels for consideration of the State legislative proposals involved, and to the attention of heads of Federal Departments and agencies, for their guidance in matters relating to this subject. Part II of the Committee's report is now in course of preparation and will be completed in the next several months. It will be a text which will discuss the law applicable to Federal jurisdiction over land owned in the States. Immediately upon completion of the legal text it will be sent to you. The Committee is of the view, in which I concur, that the two parts of the report are sufficiently different in content and purpose that they may issue separately. Respectfully, Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General THE PRESIDENT, THE WHITE HOUSE. (IV) Previous Next

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LETTER OF SUBMISSION
INTERDEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL AREAS WITHIN THE STATES, APRIL 25, 1956

DEAR MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL: The Committee has completed its studies of the factual aspects of legislative jurisdiction over Federal areas within the several States, and of the Federal and State laws relating thereto, and herewith submits for your consideration and for transmission to the President its report subtitled "Part I. the Facts and Committee Recommendations." Part II of the Committee's report will be completed within the next several months. It will be a text of the law on the subject of legislative jurisdiction, particularly covering judicial decisions and rulings of legal officers of administrative agencies concerning the subject. It is the view of the Committee that the two mentioned parts of the report are sufficiently different in their contents and purposes that they may issue separately. Respectfully submitted, PERRY W. MORTON, Assistant Attorney General (Chairman). MANSFIELD D. SPRAGUE, General Counsel, General Services Administration (Secretary). MAXWELL H. ELLIOTT, General Counsel, General Services Administration (Secretary). ARTHUR B. FOCKE, Legal Adviser, Bureau of the Budget. J. REUEL ARMSTRONG, Solicitor, Department of the Interior. ROBERT L. FARRINGTON, General Counsel, Department of Agriculture. PARKE M. BANTA, General Counsel, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. EDWARD E. ODOM, Retired as General Counsel, Veterans' Administration.

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