The following releases of the Office of the White House Press Secretary, distributed during the period covered by this issue, are not included in the issue.
Released July 10, 1978
Fact sheet: Justice System Improvement Act of 1978
Fact sheet: urban initiatives program News conference: on Federal law enforcement assistance reorganization and a Housing and Urban Development Department urban initiatives program—by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, W. Harrison Wellford, Executive Associate Director for Reorganization and Management, Office of Management and Budget, Lawrence P. Simons, Assistant Secretary for Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Thomas Madden, General Counsel, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Released July 12, 1978
Announcement: visit of Mrs. Lillian Carter to the Sahel region of Africa
Announcement: presentation of the Ceres Medal to Mrs. Lillian Carter by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
List: participants in the U.S. scientific and technological mission to the People's Republic of China, July 6-10
Approved July 10, 1978
H.R. 10730 ...........Public Law 95-316 An act to authorize appropriations to carry out the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 during fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981.
H.R. 3447 ............Public Law 95-317 An act to amend chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to grant an annuitant the right to elect within one year after remarriage whether such annuitant's new spouse shall be entitled, if otherwise qualified, to a survivor annuity, and to eliminate the annuity reduction made by an unmarried annuitant to provide a survivor annuity to an individual having an insurable interest in cases where such individual predeceases the annuitant.
H.R. 3755 ............Public Law 95-318 An act to provide for the reinstatement of civil service retirement survivor annuities for certain widows and widowers whose remarriages occurred before July 18, 1966, and for other purposes.
Approved July 11, 1978
S. 2401 ...............Public Law 95-319 Emergency Interim Consumer Product Safety Standard Act of 1978.
Editor's Note
Note Concerning the Closing Time of This Issue
The President left the White House on Thursday morning, July 13, for a state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany and meetings at the Bonn Economic Summit. Releases issued on the trip but not received in time for inclusion in this issue will be printed next week.
Jimmy Carter, Checklist of White House Press Releases Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247886