Salaries and expenses: For salaries and expenses necessary for the general administration of the Bureau of Mines, including $56,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $67,765.
Operating mine rescue cars and stations and investigation of mine accidents: For salaries and expenses necessary for the investigation and improvement of mine-rescue and first-aid methods and appliances and the teaching of mine safety, rescue, and first-aid methods; investigations as to the causes of mine explosions, causes of falls of roof and coal, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, statistical studies and reports relating to mine accidents, and other investigations pertinent to the mining industry; including the construction of temporary buildings; equipment and supplies: travel expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences held for the purpose of promoting safety and health in the mining and allied industries; purchase not exceedingVehicles.
$7,500, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase and exchange in part payment therefor of cooks’ uniforms, goggles, gloves, rubber boots aprons; and not to exceed $64,600 for personal services in the District ofPersonal services.
Columbia, $680,700, of which not to exceed $500 may be expendedTrophies.
for the purchase and bestowal of trophies in connection with mine-rescue and first-aid contests.
Coal-mine inspections and investigations: For all salaries and expenses necessary to enable the Bureau of Mines to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Act of May 7, 1941 (55 Stat. 177);[30 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 4f–4o].
including supplies and equipment: traveling expenses; not to exceed $61,950 for personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies; professional books and publications; purchaseVehicles.
(not to exceed $1,500), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled trucks and passenger-carrying vehicles for official use and in transporting employees between their homes and temporary locations where they may be employed; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged57 Stat. 480 in their work; travel, and other incidental expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences held for promoting safety Contributions.
and health in the coal-mining industry, $722,880:
Provided, That the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources.
Enforcement of [55 Stat. 863].
[50 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 121–142].
Federal Explosives Act: For all necessary expenses of the Bureau of Mines in performing the duties imposed upon it by the Federal Explosives Act, including not to exceed $100,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; not to exceed $11,250 for printing and binding; contract stenographic reporting services; supplies and equipment; traveling expenses; maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other Ante, p. 453.
items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior”; $530,000:
Provided, That section[41 U. S. C. § 5].
3709, Revised Statutes shall not apply to any purchase or service rendered under this appropriation when the aggregate amount involved Cooperation with other agencies.
does not exceed $300:
Provided further, That the Secretary, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to carry out projects hereunder in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, the District of Columbia, States, Territories, insular possessions, with other organizations or individuals, and with foreign countries and the political subdivisions thereof.
Protection of mineral resources and facilities (national defense): For all expenses necessary to enable the Bureau of Mines, independently or in cooperation with other agencies, public or private, to initiate and augment measures to prevent subversive activities from interfering with the extraction and processing of minerals, including not to exceed $30,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; Vehicles.
purchase (not to exceed $4,500), maintenance, operation, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; travel expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the furtherance of the purposes hereof: not to exceed $3,250 for printing and binding; purchase of special apparel and equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; and purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items Ante, p. 453.
otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior”, $400,000.
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Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most Recommendations to Government agencies.
efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $375,000, of which not to exceed $63,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Mineral mining investigations.
Mineral mining investigations: For scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, and economy in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, purchase, not to exceed $12,000, operation, maintenance,57 Stat. 481 and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $30,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $440,000:
Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party.
Oil and gas investigations: For inquiries and investigations andOil and gas investigations.
dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, newspapers, expenses of travel, purchase, not to exceed $6,500, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $533,380, of which not to exceed $42,000 may be expended for persona] services in the District of Columbia.
Purchase of land, and so forth, Bartlesville, Oklahoma: For theBartlesville, Okla.
Purchase of land, etc.
purchase of land in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, which land may be acquired as an addition to the petroleum experiment station of the Bureau of Mines, and the purchase or construction of fences, temporary storage sheds, and other necessary structures, to remain available until expended, $30,000.
Mining experiment stations: For personal services, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, purchase not to exceed $3,000, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act of March 3, 1915 (30 U. S. C. 8), $629,500, of which not to exceed $22,000 may be[38 Stat. 959].
[30 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 8].
Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pa.
expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $10,000 for additions and improvements, $110.000.
Economics of mineral industries: For investigations, and the disseminationPost, p. 623.
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; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase (not to exceed $1,500), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $475,650, of which not to exceed $322,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Investigation of raw material resources for steel productionSteel production.
Investigation of raw material resources.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
(national defense): For all expenses, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, necessary to enable the Bureau of Mines to investigate by subsurface exploration the amount and quality of iron ores, limestone, and coals essential to expanding steel production in States in which such deposits may exist, including pilot plant construction and operation to utilize more fully found resources and all necessary laboratory research; preliminary examination and subsurface exploration of raw materials; supplies and equipment; traveling expenses; purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair, of twenty-57 Stat. 482two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; not to exceed $31,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; printing and binding; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, professional books and publications, stationery and supplies, and purchase of such personal wearing apparel or equipment as may be required for the protection of employees Contributions.
while engaged in their work, $2,000,000:
Provided, That the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources and to carry out the projects in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies, and other organizations.
Electrodevelopment laboratory.
Construction and equipment of an electrodevelopment laboratory: The unobligated balance of the appropriation under this head in the [56 Stat. 543].
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions until June 30, 1944.
Gaseous and solid fuel reduction of iron ores.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
Gaseous and solid fuel reduction of iron ores (national defense) For necessary expenses without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, for pilot-scale tests on the gaseous and solid-fuel reduction of iron ores, including laboratory research and maintenance and operation of pilot plants; procurement of necessary materials and ores; purchase or lease of land or buildings; construction and equipment of buildings; engagement 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 necessary to design and construct the buildings and pilot plants; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; not to exceed $9,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $200 for printing and binding, books of reference and periodicals; purchase not to exceed $2,775 (including exchange), operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; special wearing apparel and equipment for the protection of employees while employed; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise Ante, p. 453.
properly chargeable to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Contributions.
Department of the Interior”, $400,000:
Provided, That the Secretary, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources for the purposes hereof, and to carry out projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private.
Manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
Manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research (national defense): For all necessary expenses, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, of investigations and development of methods of beneficiating and smelting domestic manganese ores, including ore dressing, hydro metallurgy, 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; including employment by contract or otherwise, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary 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 exceed $20,000); printing and binding (not to exceed $1,500); purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies; professional books and publications; purchase not to exceed $5,000, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled57 Stat. 483 passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work, $900,000:
Provided, That the Secretary, acting through theContributions.
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.
Production of alumina from low-grade bauxite, aluminum claysAlumina.
Production from low-grade bauxite, etc.
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[41 U. S. C. § 5].
and alunite (national defense): For all expenses necessary, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, 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 buildings to house testing and subcommercial plant units; engagement by contract or otherwise, and at such rates of compensation as the Secretary may determine, of the services of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof, that arc necessary to design and construct the buildings and plant units; purchase of supplies and equipment; travel expenses; not to exceedPersonal services.
$15,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery and supplies, professional books and publications; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for protection of employees engaged in their work, $490,000.
Investigation of bauxite and alunite ores and aluminum clay deposits (national defense): For all necessary expenses, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, for investigations including[41 U. S. C. § 5].
laboratory research and procurement of materials therefor, concerning the extent, mode of occurrence, and quality of bauxite and alunite ores and aluminum clays in order to determine domestic sources of supply; to explore and develop on public lands and, with the consent of owners, on private lands, deposits of such ores and clays, including geologic studies arid geophysical prospecting; construction, maintenance, and repair of necessary camp buildings and mining structures and appurtenances; including not to exceed $52,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase (not to exceed $6,000), operation, maintenance and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; professional books and publications; printing and binding; purchase of such wearing apparel and equipment as may be required for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; and other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, fiscal year 1944”,Ante, p. 453.
$1,860,000, of which $317,000 (including not to exceed $19,800 for personal services in the District of Columbia) shall be made available to the Geological Survey to carry out the purposes of this appropriation:
Provided, That the Secretary, acting through the DirectorsContributions.
of the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Survey, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources, and to carry out the projects in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies, and other organizations.
Magnesium pilot plants and research (national defense): For allMagnesium pilot plants and research.
Post, p. 624.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
necessary expenses, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, for the conduct of investigations and development of methods for the recovery of magnesium from domestic raw materials, including naturally occurring brines, salt deposits, dolomite, mag57 Stat. 484nesite, and brucite, by hydrometallurgy, direct reduction, and electrolytic methods, including 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, 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 necessary to design and construct the buildings and pilot plants; supplies and equipment: travel expenses; not to exceed $8,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia: not to exceed $750 for printing and binding; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly chargeableAnte, p. 453.
to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior”; books or reference and periodicals; special Wearing apparel and equipment for protection of employees while employed; and the operation, maintenance, and repair of three passenger-carrying automobiles; Contributions.
$225,000:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources for the purposes hereof, and to operate said plants in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private.
Investigation of deposits of critical and essential minerals.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
Investigation of deposits of critical and essential minerals in the United States and its possessions (national defense): For all necessary expenses, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, for investigating deposits of critical and essential minerals in the United States and its possessions, including laboratory research; preliminary examination and surface and subsurface exploration; supplies and equipment; travel expenses: not to exceed $84,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriationAnte, p. 453.
“Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior”; books of reference and periodicals; purchase not to exceed $20,000, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; special wearing apparel and equipment for the protection of employeesContributions.
while employed; $3,900,000:
Provided, That the Secretary, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources for the purposes hereof, and to carry out the projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private.
Drainage tunnel, Leadville, Colo.
[41 U. S. C. § 5].
Drainage tunnel, Leadville, Colorado (national defense): For all expenses necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, to construct, operate, and maintain, independently or in cooperation with public or private agencies, a drainage tunnel, including lateral tunnels, to drain mining land in the Leadville, Colorado, mining district, including the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, or donation of lands, rights-of-way, or other interests in lands, or other property; the engagement by contract or otherwise at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, of individuals, firms, or corporations, necessary to design and construct the tunnel; purchase, not to exceed $2,700, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, which may be used for transporting employees from their homes to temporary locations of employment; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; not to exceed $13,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; and other items of expenditure otherwise properly chargeableAnte, p. 453.
to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior”; $1,400,000, to remain available until expended.
57 Stat. 485
During the fiscal year 1944 the head of any department or independentCooperative work on scientific investigations.
Transfer of funds.
establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of the Bureau of Mines may, with the approval of the Secretary, transfer to the Bureau such sums as may be necessary therefor, which sums so transferred may be expended for the same objects and in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended.
The Federal Security Administrator may detail medical officers ofDetail of medical officers.
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.
Helium production and investigations: The sums made availableHelium production and investigations.
Transfer of funds.
Ante, pp. 207, 356.
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for the fiscal year 1944 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, 1943, 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, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and all other necessary expenses, and including $40,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, in addition to which sums the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operations in the fiscal year 1944 the unobligated balance of funds transferred to it for such operations, in the fiscal year 1943:
Provided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not be construed to apply[41 U. S. C. § 5].
to this appropriation, or to the appropriation for development and operation of helium properties (special fund) in section 3 (c)[60 Stat. 886].
of the Act of September 1, 1937 (50 U. S. C. 164).
The Bureau of Mines is hereby authorized, during the fiscal yearSale of products of pilot plants.
1944, to sell directly or through any Government agency, including corporations, any metal or mineral product that may be manufactured in pilot plants operated from funds appropriated to the Bureau of Mines, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Total, Bureau of Mines, $16,170,875.
