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[CITE: 43USC364a]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                 CHAPTER 11A--BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
 
Sec. 364a. Board on Geographic Names; establishment and 
        membership; appointment and term of office
        
    There is established a Board on Geographic Names, hereinafter called 
the Board. The membership of the Board shall include one representative 
from each of the Departments of State, Defense, Interior, Agriculture, 
and Commerce, and from the Government Printing Office, the United States 
Postal Service, and the Library of Congress. The Board may also include 
representatives from such Federal agencies as the Secretary, upon 
recommendation of the Board, shall from time to time find desirable, 
even though these agencies are in the departments otherwise represented 
on the Board. The members of the Board shall be appointed by the 
respective heads of the departments or independent agencies that they 
represent. Each member shall be appointed for a two-year term but may be 
reappointed to successive terms. The members of the Board shall serve 
without additional compensation. The Board shall nominate a Chairman to 
be appointed by the Secretary, and shall establish such working 
committees as are found desirable.

(July 25, 1947, ch. 330, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 456; Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, 
Sec. 4, 63 Stat. 579; Pub. L. 91-375, Secs. 4(a), 6(o), Aug. 12, 1970, 
84 Stat. 773, 783.)


                               Amendments

    1949--Act Aug. 10, 1949, established Department of Defense as an 
Executive Department and reduced Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air 
Force to status of military departments in Department of Defense.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States Postal Service'' substituted in text for ``Post 
Office Department'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375, Secs. 4(a), 6(o), Aug. 
12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773, 783, which are set out as notes preceding 
section 101 of Title 39, Postal Service, and under section 201 of Title 
39, respectively, which abolished Post Office Department, transferred 
its functions to United States Postal Service, and provided that 
references in other laws to Post Office Department be considered a 
reference to United States Postal Service.
