Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1942: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1942U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - Petroleum |
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Page 416
... road projects is handled by the Public Roads Administration and sanitation by the Public Health Service , and advice regarding insect and tree disease problems and in forest pathology is obtained from the Department of Agriculture ...
... road projects is handled by the Public Roads Administration and sanitation by the Public Health Service , and advice regarding insect and tree disease problems and in forest pathology is obtained from the Department of Agriculture ...
Page 417
... roads and improve the alinement and grade of almost all exist- ing roads . We now have a comprehensive system of approximately 3,200 miles of roads , of which only 1,830 miles are of modern standard . During road construction and ...
... roads and improve the alinement and grade of almost all exist- ing roads . We now have a comprehensive system of approximately 3,200 miles of roads , of which only 1,830 miles are of modern standard . During road construction and ...
Page 426
... roads and parkways , to meet the contractual authorizations which Congress granted last year . In other words , Congress last year , in the appropriation act , authorized contractual obligations for roads , trails , and parkways , and ...
... roads and parkways , to meet the contractual authorizations which Congress granted last year . In other words , Congress last year , in the appropriation act , authorized contractual obligations for roads , trails , and parkways , and ...
Page 454
... roads and 2.5 miles of gravel - treated roads . Funds now available are not sufficient for adequate maintenance . In 1932 , $ 4,500 was allotted for maintaining a total of 14.7 miles of roads and the mileage has more than doubled since ...
... roads and 2.5 miles of gravel - treated roads . Funds now available are not sufficient for adequate maintenance . In 1932 , $ 4,500 was allotted for maintaining a total of 14.7 miles of roads and the mileage has more than doubled since ...
Page 455
... road system includes 25.4 miles of bituminous - surfaced and 1.1 miles of macadam roads , a total of 26.5 miles . Because of the lack of sufficient funds , maintenance has been limited to minor work , such as cleaning culverts and drain ...
... road system includes 25.4 miles of bituminous - surfaced and 1.1 miles of macadam roads , a total of 26.5 miles . Because of the lack of sufficient funds , maintenance has been limited to minor work , such as cleaning culverts and drain ...
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acres additional Administration agencies allotment aluminum amount appropriation approved approximately bill Blue Ridge Parkway Bonneville Bonneville Power Administration Budget buildings Bureau of Mines BURLEW CAEMMERER Civilian Conservation Corps committee Congress construction contract cooperation cost DEMARAY District of Columbia electric employees equipment established expenses facilities Federal field fiscal year 1941 FITZPATRICK following justification funds Geological Survey Government Grand Coulee increase industry installation investigations JOHNSON of Oklahoma JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE kilovolts kilowatts lands LEAVY located magnesite magnesium maintenance maps MENDENHALL ment miles mineral Mount Rainier Muck Natchez Trace Parkway National Monument National Park Service necessary needed nonrecurring operation Parkway PEHRSON percent personnel plant purchase ranger RAVER repair requested roads salaries SAYERS SCRUGHAM Secretary SHEPPARD substation supplies tion trails transferred Travel Bureau United visitors Washington Yellowstone National Park Yosemite National Park
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Page 314 - That it shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances...
Page 578 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 78 - To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive and control measures needed, to publish the results of such surveys, investigations, or research, and to disseminate information...
Page 241 - And that the director and members of the geological survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations...
Page 314 - That the director of said Bureau shall prepare and publish, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the appropriations made from time to time by Congress, reports of inquiries and investigations, with appropriate recommendations of the Bureau, concerning the nature, causes, and prevention of accidents, and the improvement of conditions, methods, and equipment, with special reference to health, safety, and prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other...
Page 477 - An Act for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes', approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat.
Page 314 - ... 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 78 - To cooperate or enter into agreements with, or to furnish financial or other aid to, any agency, governmental or otherwise, or any person, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary, for the purposes of this Act; and 4.
Page 123 - For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department...
Page 82 - Department lands from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior.