To Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps: Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor ... on S.2102, a Bill to Establish a Civilian Conservation Corps and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 59 pages |
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Acres ACT OF MARCH agencies allotments Army and Navy authorized average boys C. C. C. camps CHAIRMAN civil service Civilian Conservation Corps claim Congress contract chaplains Corps Area Cubic yards Department of Agriculture Director Emergency Conservation employees employment enrollment equipment eran Junior facilities February 28 FECHNER forest fires forestry funds going HUGO L improvement Indians insular possessions Interior June 30 jurisdiction or control lands or interest Linear feet Man-days MARCH 31 ment mess stewards Miles Monsignor Reedy months MORRELL necessary needy circumstances Number Number number of enrollees operation organization percent personnel present President projects proposed Provided further purpose regulations Republicans Reserve officers ROBERT FECHNER selected Senator DAVIS Senator ELLENDER Senator MURRAY Senator THOMAS Senator WALSH South Dakota Square yards submitted supervision technical Territories and insular thing tion Total TYNER unemployed United utilization veterans vocational training War Department WIRTH young
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Page 28 - ... the President is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and by utilizing such existing departments or agencies as he mav designate, to provide for employing citizens of the United States who are unemployed, in the construction, maintenance, and carrying on of works of a public nature in connection with the forestation of lands belonging to the United States or to the several States...
Page 34 - ... such kinds of cooperative work as are or may be provided for by Acts of Congress, including the prevention and control of forest fires, forest tree pests and diseases, soil erosion, and floods: Provided further. That no projects shall be undertaken on lands or interests in lands, other than those belonging to or under the jurisdiction or control of the United States, unless adequate provisions are made by the cooperating agencies for the maintenance, operation, and utilization of such projects...
Page 2 - SEC. 6. The President may order Reserve officers of the Army and officers of the Naval and Marine Reserves and warrant officers of the Coast Guard to active duty with the Corps under the provisions of section 37a of the National Defense Act and the Act of February 28, 1925. respectively.
Page 2 - The Chief of Finance, War Department, is hereby designated, empowered, and directed, until otherwise ordered by the President, to act as the fiscal agent of the director in carrying out the provisions of this Act: Provided, That funds allocated to Government agencies for obligation under this Act may be expended in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations governing the usual work of such agency, except as otherwise .stipulated in this Act: Provided further, That in incurring expenditures,...
Page 29 - Enrollees shall be provided, in addition to the monthly rates of pay, with such quarters, subsistence, and clothing, or commutation in lieu thereof, medical attention, hospitalization, and transportation as the Director may deem necessary: Provided, That burial, embalming, and transportation expenses of deceased enrolled members of the Corps, regardless of the cause and place of death, shall be paid in accordance with regulations of the Employees' Compensation Commission: Provided further.
Page 28 - Provided, That the President may in his discretion extend the provisions of this Act to lands owned by counties and municipalities and lands in private ownership, but only for the purpose of doing thereon such kinds of cooperative work as are now provided for by Acts of Congress in preventing and controlling forest fires and the attacks of forest tree pests and diseases and such work as is necessary in the public interest to control floods.
Page 31 - State administrative agencies, and the President, or the head of any department or agency authorized by him to construct any project or to carry on any such public works, shall be authorized to acquire real property by purchase, donation, condemnation, or otherwise, but the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any property so acquired.
Page 29 - States between the ages of 17 and 23 years, both inclusive, and shall at the time of enrollment be unemployed and in need of employment : Provided, That the director may exclude from enrollment such classes of persons as he may consider detrimental to the well-being or welfare of the Corps, except that no person...
Page 3 - That unserviceable property in the custody of any department shall be disposed of under the regulations of that department. SEC. 16. The director and, under his supervision, the heads of cooperating departments and agencies are authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay from the funds appropriated by Congress to carry out the provisions of this Act any claim arising out of operations authorized by the Act accruing after the effective date thereof, on account of damage to or loss...
Page 3 - Director may authorize the expenditure of such amounts as he may deem necessary for supplies, materials, and equipment for enrollees to be used in connection with their work, instruction, recreation, health, and welfare...