Annual Report - The Secretary of the InteriorThe Department, 1936 - Natural resources |
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acres activities addition Administration Agency Alaska All-American Canal allotments amount appropriation approximately Arizona Board buildings Bureau of Mines camps Civilian Conservation Corps coal Colorado Colorado River completed conservation construction continued cooperation County crude Dakota Department deposits East Texas economic engineering established Federal field fiscal year 1937 Forest funds Geological Survey Government grazing districts Idaho improvements increase Indian lands Indian Reorganization Act Indian Service industry Interior investigations irrigation June 30 Lake leases ment Mexico miles mineral Montana National Monument National Park Service Navajo Office oil and gas Oklahoma operation Oregon Paiute patents percent personnel petroleum plans plant prepared production projects prospecting permits public lands Public Works Administration Pueblo Puerto Rico purchase range reclamation Reservation reservoir River Shoshone South Dakota stratigraphy supervision Taylor Grazing Act timber tion tribal tribes United Utah Valley vocational Washington Wyoming
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Page 319 - Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to Civil Employment, Approved June 2, 1920.
Page 124 - The said rate schedules may provide for uniform rates or rates uniform throughout prescribed transmission areas in order to extend the benefits of an integrated transmission system and encourage the equitable distribution of the electric energy developed at the Fort Peck project.
Page 133 - 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 261 - The power does not extend so far as to enable the Government 'to give the tribal lands to others, or to appropriate them to its own purposes, without rendering or assuming an obligation to render, just compensation ; * * * for that would not be an exercise of guardianship, but an act of confiscation.
Page 319 - The members of this board are the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, and the Commissioner of Education...
Page 98 - February 5, 1935 (numbered 6964), or within a grazing district, which are more valuable or suitable for the production of agricultural crops than for the production of native grasses and forage plants, or more valuable or suitable for any other use than for the use provided for under...
Page 97 - USC 321, 323, 325, 327-329) . provides for the making of desert-land entries in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. § 2226.0-5 Definitions. (a) As used in the desert-land laws and the regulations of this subpart: (1) "Reclamation...
Page 319 - AN ACT To provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories.
Page 280 - April 11, 1940, transferred the activities of the Soil Conservation Service relating to soil and moisture conservation on Interior Department lands from the Department of Agriculture to the, Department of the Interior.
Page 214 - Contraband oil" means petroleum which, or any constituent part of which, was produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage in excess of the amounts permitted to be produced, transported, or withdrawn from storage under the laws of a State or under any regulation or order prescribed thereunder by any board, commission, officer, or other duly authorized agency of such State, or any of the products of such petroleum. (m) "Interstate commerce...