Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1940: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1940 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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acre-feet acres additional Administration agencies Alaska All-American Canal amount appropriation asking Assistant bituminous coal Boise project Budget building Bureau of Mines BURLEW canal Canyon CARTER Central Valley project CHAIRMAN clerk clerk-stenographer Colorado River Commission Congress construction contract cost Coulee DEMARAY division employees engineer equipment expenses Federal field FINCH fiscal year 1940 FITZPATRICK Friant Dam going Government grazing HAVELL Housing Authority increase industry investigations irrigation irrigation district JOHNSON of Oklahoma Junior stenographer JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE kilowatt-hours kilowatts Lake LEAVY Maintenance laborer ment miles mineral minimum prices National Park O'NEAL Ohio Oklahoma operation and maintenance percent personnel power plant producers public lands Public Works Administration pumping purchase reclamation fund requested Reservoir revenues RICH Ross salaries SCRUGHAM Secretary ICKES Senior stenographer STRAUS supply surveys Taylor Grazing Act TETLOW tion United States Housing Valley Washington
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Page 223 - That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State...
Page 495 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic Investigations concerning mining, and the preparation. treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 495 - ... metallurgical, and other mineral industries: to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use; and to disseminate information concerning these subjects in such manner as will best carry out the purposes of this act.
Page 781 - For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in national parks, monuments, and other areas administered by the National Park Service, including areas authorized to be established as national parks and monuments, and national park and monument approach roads authorized by the Act of January 31, 1931 (46 Stat.
Page 379 - August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, known as the Carey Act, and individuals, corporations, associations, and irrigation districts organized for or engaged in furnishing or in distributing water for irrigation. Water so impounded, stored, or carried under any such contract shall be for the purpose of distribution to individual water users by the party with...
Page 76 - Education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems and methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 495 - Congress, reports of inquiries and investigations, with appropriate recommendations of the bureau, concerning the nature, causes, and prevention of accidents, and the improvement of conditions, methods, and equipment, with special reference to health, safety, and prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 517 - Interior, to make diligent investigation of the methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, and the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the treatment of ores and other mineral substances, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to said industries...
Page 116 - To provide financial assistance to the States and political subdivisions thereof for the elimination of unsafe and insanitary housing conditions, for the eradication of slums, for the provision of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income, and for the reduction of unemployment and the stimulation of business activity, to create a United States Housing Authority, and for other purposes.
Page 199 - Stat. 1179), as amended, such portions of the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands...