work, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $260,000, of which amount not to exceed $22,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal services, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, the purchase not to exceed $3,000, exchange as part payment for maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (30 U. S. C. 8), $553,500, of which appropriation not to exceed $17,100 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 38 Stat. 959. Construction of lab Construction of Electric Furnace Laboratory Building, Norris, Tennessee: For the erection and equipment of a building, suitable for oratory, Norris, Tenn. an electric-furnace experimental laboratory, adjacent to the Bureau of Mines Electrotechnical Laboratory at Norris, Tennessee, on land conveyed to the Department of the Interior on August 7, 1940, by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including the preparation of plans and specifications, advertising and supervision of construction, $10,000; Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, and Bruceton, Pa. Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $10,000 for additions and improvements, $109,480; Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, and the dissemination of information concerning the economic problems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineral commodities and primary products thereof; preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and supplies; typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, not exceeding $1,200, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $466,880, of which amount not to exceed $276,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of Mines in performing the duties imposed upon it by section 7 of the Act of June 7, 1939 (Public, Numbered 117, Seventy-sixth Congress); including the purchase of professional and scientific books; not to exceed $1,500 for printing and binding; purchase not to exceed $22,000, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and in transporting employees between their homes and temporary locations where they may be employed; purchase of goggles, gloves, rubber boots, miners' hats, aprons, and such other articles of personal wearing apparel or equipment as may be required for the protection of employees while engaged in Vehicles. Post, p. 684. 53 Stat. 812. Proviso. Helium plants and Helium production and investigations. Transfers of funds. ante, p. 168. Maintenance, etc., of plants. Post, p. 827. 54 Stat. 602. their work; the construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and mining structures and appurtenances thereto; and including not to exceed $25,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $425,000: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered when the amount involved does not exceed the sum of $500; Helium plants and investigations: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to increase and improve the production capacity of the helium plant located at Amarillo, Texas, by the construction and equipment of buildings or additions to existing buildings, the drilling of wells and construction of pipe lines, and other appurtenant facilities, and to conduct investigations with respect to available resources of helium-bearing gas, and for all necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, including the employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof that are necessary to design and construct the buildings, structures and equipment; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; purchases in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; and including the operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles for official use in field work, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, to be available immediately, $350,000; Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for the fiscal year 1942 in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be transferred to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1941, for operation and maintenance of the plants for the production of helium for military and naval purposes, including laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; purchase, not to exceed $4,500, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other necessary expenses, and including $20,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, in addition to which sums the Bureau of Mines may use for heliumplant operations in the fiscal year 1942 the unobligated balance of funds transferred to it for such operations in the fiscal year 1941; Manganese Beneficiation Pilot Plants and Research: For continuing the conduct of investigations and development of methods of beneficiating and smelting domestic manganese ores commenced with funds made available from the appropriation under the title "Expediting Production" contained in the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941, including ore dressing, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and for the production of metallic manganese by electrolytic or other methods, including all necessary preliminary and supplemental laboratory research; maintenance and operation of pilot plants; procurement of necessary materials and ores for metallurgical tests; purchase or lease of land; construction and equipment of buildings to house pilot plants; and for all necessary expenses incident to the foregoing, including employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof that are necessary to design and construct the buildings and pilot plants; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; personal services in the District of Columbia (not to Printing and bind exceed $25,000); printing and binding (not to exceed $4,500); purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriting, adding and com ing. Personal services. puting machines, accessories and repairs; professional and scientific books and publications; purchase not to exceed $7,500 (including exchange as part payment), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work, $930,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of this appropriation, and to operate the plants in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies, and other organizations: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to this appropriation; Provisos. Minor purchases. 41 U. S. C. § 5. Production of alu Production of alumina from low-grade bauxite, aluminum clays min and alunite: For all expenses necessary to the conduct of investigations and research on processes for production of alumina from siliceous bauxites, aluminum clays and alunite, including all necessary laboratory research; maintenance and operation of small subcommercial plants; procurement of necessary materials and ores; construction and equipment of a building to house testing and subcommercial plant units; engagement by contract or otherwise, and at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of the services of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof, that are necessary to design and construct the building and plant units; purchase of supplies and equipment; travel expenses; purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, typewriters, adding and computing machines, professional and scientific books and publications; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for protection of employees engaged in their work, $85,000, to be immediately available: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to this appropriation; Proviso. 41 U. S. C. § 5. Cooperative work on scientific investi Transfer of funds. During the fiscal year 1942 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for gations. scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Bureau of Mines such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made: Provided, That any sums transferred by any department or independent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; Proviso. Details from Public The Federal Security Administrator may detail medical officers Health Service. of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines; Total, Bureau of Mines, $4,662,470. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Salaries: For the Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including accounting Specialists and ex perts. Proviso. Employment with services in checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments, and including the services of specialists and experts for investigations and examinations of lands to determine their suitability for national-park and national-monument purposes: Provided, That such specialists and out reference to Civil experts may be employed for temporary service at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior to correspond to those established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and without reference to the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883, $262,260, of which amount not to exceed $11,000 may be expended for the services of field employees engaged in examination of lands and in developing the educational work of the National Park Service. Service Act. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661-674. Post, p. 613. 22 Stat. 403. 5 U. S. C. ch. 12. Administration, etc., of national parks. 41 Stat. 614. Regional offices: For salaries and expenses of regional offices necessary in the administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the National Park System, including not to exceed $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and not exceeding $8,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $47,700. General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the office of the Director of the National Park Service not herein provided for, including traveling expenses, telegrams, photographic supplies, prints, and motion-picture films, and necessary expenses of field employees engaged in examination of lands and in developing the educational work of the National Park Service, $34,500. Acadia National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including $3,000 for George B. Dorr as superintendent without regard to the requirements of the provisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act approved May 22, 1920 (5 U. S. C. 691-693, 697-731), as amended, $3,000 for temporary clerical services for investigation of titles and preparation of abstracts thereof of lands donated to the United States for inclusion in the Acadia National Park, not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and not exceeding $37,500 for the acquisition of land, interests in lands, and improvements, including expenses incident thereto, $93,075. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $300 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with the general park work, $22,385. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $110,390. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $895 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $101,900. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $2,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $218,805. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $140,510. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including the repair and maintenance of approximately two and seventy-seven onehundredths miles of road leading from United States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National Park, $34,540. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $1,900 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work, $125,100. Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,630 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passengercarrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $73,665. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $77,890. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $31,745. Kings Canyon National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $650 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, $43,925. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $700 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motordriven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not to exceed $1,000 for the maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen National Forest, $65,375. Proviso. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use in connection with general park work, $80,500: Provided, That employees of the Mammoth Cave Operating Committee who have had not less than two years' service with erating Committee. that Committee at the time of the approval of this Act, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be employed by the National Park Service, in the administration, protection, and development of said national park. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $750 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and |