Interior Department Appropriation Bill, 1937: Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, in Charge of Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1937. Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session. Supplement

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Page 2 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the, use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment...
Page 154 - The Council is authorized to employ, and fix the compensation of, such specialists and other experts as may be necessary for the carrying out of its functions under this Act, without regard to the civil service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended...
Page 51 - STATEMENT OF HON. EDWARD T. TAYLOR, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I want to call your attention to the western half of the United States as shown on that map.
Page 4 - Reservoir, reaching 5 miles in length and from a quarter of a mile to a mile in width, would expose the muddy, devasted shore line and bottom land.
Page 131 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make such studies, surveys, investigations, and do such engineering as may be necessary to determine the lands in the State of Arizona that should be embraced within the boundaries of a reclamation project, heretofore commonly known and hereafter to be known as the...
Page 6 - The Federal Water Power Act," as used in this Act, shall be understood to mean that certain Act of Congress of the United States approved June 10, 1920, entitled "An Act to create a Federal Power Commission ; to provide for the improvement of navigation ; the development of water power ; the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental...
Page 128 - For continuation of construction, and for general investigations and administrative expenses, of the following projects in not to exceed the following amounts, respectively, to be expended from the Reclamation Fund in the same manner and for the same objects of expenditure as specified for projects hereinbefore in this Act under the caption "Bureau of Reclamation...
Page 92 - ... man who is grading it now is grading it for a profit. The businessmen will still continue to do business; this will not disturb them at all, except that this says what is the minimum price. And by that very act, you eliminate gambling in the grain exchanges below the minimum, in the wheat pit. Now the question was asked by one of the members of the committee the other day: How are you going to hedge? The Government itself, if this law is passed, will be the hedge for the man who buys. He will...
Page 131 - Interior is hereby authorized to make such studies, surveys, investigations, and do such engineering as may be necessary to determine the lands in the State of Arizona that should be embraced within the boundaries of a reclamation project, heretofore commonly known and hereafter to be known as the Parker-Gila Valley reclamation project, and to recommend the most practicable and feasible method of irrigating lands within said project, or units thereof, and the cost of the same ; and the appropriation...
Page 6 - That hereafter no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or utilization of power, within the limits as now constituted of any national park or national monument...

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