The Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1959: Hearings Before Subcommitties ... Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session |
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85th Congress activities additional Administration Administrative Procedure Act Admiral KARO agencies airport amount Atomic Energy authorized Average number BERKNER bill BUDGE building Bureau of Mines Chairman Chantilly Commission committee Congress construction contract cost Department employees employment engineering equipment facilities Federal FENTON financing fiscal year 1959 FLOOD FOGARTY funds GARY geologic Geophysical going Gorki Park Government hearing helium House included increase International Geophysical JONAS June 30 justification KEARNS KIRWAN land LEEDOM loans materials ment million minerals National obligations Office operation PASSMAN percent personal services personnel plant present PRESTON problem projects proposed radio astronomy reactor record REICHELDERFER request retired road ROONEY Ryukyu Islands Salaries and expenses Secretary SIEMINSKI staff statement stations supplemental appropriation telescope THOMAS tion Total United Washington Weather Bureau WIRTH workload World Data Center YATES
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Page 539 - Law 763 provides that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates.
Page 216 - Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary such action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, he shall promulgate regulations fixing and establishing for any food, under its common or usual name so far as practicable, a reasonable definition and standard of identity, a reasonable standard of quality, and/or reasonable standards of fill of container...
Page 645 - To provide charts and related information for the safe navigation of marine and air commerce, and to provide basic data for engineering and scientific purposes and for other commercial and industrial needs, the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, hereinafter NAVIGABLE WATERS Ch.
Page 690 - Bank shall be to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof.
Page 160 - Sec . 636. In carrying out the purposes of section 301 with respect to hospital facilities, the Surgeon General is authorized to conduct research, experiments, and demonstrations relating to the effective development and utilization of hospital services, facilities, and resources...
Page 919 - ... million. The production of special nuclear materials begins with the refinement of uranium concentrates for diffusion plants or reactors. The Isotope uranium 235 is extracted In gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio. Plutonium Is synthesized In the reactors at Hanford, Wash., and Savannah River, SC...
Page 744 - ... if not treated will impair or endanger the land, (2) materially affect the productive capacity of the land, (3) represent damage which is unusual in character and, except for...
Page 304 - Strategic and critical materials are those materials required for essential uses in a war emergency, the procurement of which in adequate quantities, quality, and time is sufficiently uncertain for any reason to require prior provision for the supply thereof.
Page 213 - Interior transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior by Reorg.
Page 649 - For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet the responsibilities and obligations of the United States in connection with the government of the Ryukyu Islands, as authorized by the Act of July 12, 1960 (74 Stat.