Transfer of El Paso and Hudspeth Counties, Texas, to Mountain Standard Time Zone
[Pub. L. 91–228], Apr. 10, 1970, [84 Stat. 119], provided: “That, notwithstanding the first section of the Act of March 4, 1921 (15 U.S.C. 265), the Secretary of Transportation may, upon the written request of the County Commissioners Court of El Paso County, Texas, change the boundary line between the central standard time zone and the mountain standard time zone, so as to place El Paso County in the mountain standard time zone, in the manner prescribed in [section 1 of the Act of March 19, 1918], as amended (15 U.S.C. 261), and [section 5 of the Act of April 13, 1966] (15 U.S.C. 266). In the same manner, the Secretary of Transportation may also place Hudspeth County, Texas, in the mountain standard time zone, if the Hudspeth County Commissioners Court so requests in writing and if El Paso County is to be placed in that time zone.”