Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1941 ..., Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 |
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Page 88
... acres of publicly owned land interspersed with private , State , and county land in a gross area of approximately 250,000,000 acres . This public land has in many instances been rather severely abused , and this abuse not only affects ...
... acres of publicly owned land interspersed with private , State , and county land in a gross area of approximately 250,000,000 acres . This public land has in many instances been rather severely abused , and this abuse not only affects ...
Page 89
... acres of State land and 12,000,000 acres of railroad land in scattered areas throughout the grazing districts constitute the major land - adjustment problem . The remaining 95,000,000 acres in other ownership will in large measure ...
... acres of State land and 12,000,000 acres of railroad land in scattered areas throughout the grazing districts constitute the major land - adjustment problem . The remaining 95,000,000 acres in other ownership will in large measure ...
Page 96
... acres , and they cannot touch it . Mr. SCRUGHAM . What is the acreage over which you have jurisdic- tion ? Mr. RUTLEDGE . 139,000,000 acres . Mr. SCRUGHAM . And you have about $ 750,000 to operate that , under the Budget ; is that ...
... acres , and they cannot touch it . Mr. SCRUGHAM . What is the acreage over which you have jurisdic- tion ? Mr. RUTLEDGE . 139,000,000 acres . Mr. SCRUGHAM . And you have about $ 750,000 to operate that , under the Budget ; is that ...
Page 99
... ( acres ) 9,651 , 778 New Mexico . Oregon .. 3,653 , 294 7,032 , 311 11 , 645 , 053 5 , 314 , 384 34 , 582 , 338 Utah . Wyoming Total . State Public land within graz- ing districts ( acres ) 15 , 346 , 655 11,978 , 370 26 , 478 , 135 13 ...
... ( acres ) 9,651 , 778 New Mexico . Oregon .. 3,653 , 294 7,032 , 311 11 , 645 , 053 5 , 314 , 384 34 , 582 , 338 Utah . Wyoming Total . State Public land within graz- ing districts ( acres ) 15 , 346 , 655 11,978 , 370 26 , 478 , 135 13 ...
Page 100
... acreage will continue to grow through the years ? go Mr. RUTLEDGE . Yes ; there are a good many hundreds of thousands of acres probably that will come into the Grazing Service . We might into some other State that we are not in . Of ...
... acreage will continue to grow through the years ? go Mr. RUTLEDGE . Yes ; there are a good many hundreds of thousands of acres probably that will come into the Grazing Service . We might into some other State that we are not in . Of ...
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acre-feet acres additional administrative promotions Alaska All-American Canal allotment amount appropriation asked Bituminous Coal Bonneville Budget building Bureau of Mines Bureau of Reclamation BURLEW California canal CARTER Civilian Conservation Corps Colorado Colorado River committee completed Congress construction contract DEMARAY Division electric employees equipment expenditures expenses Federal feet field FIELDNER fiscal year 1941 FITZPATRICK following justification Geological Survey Government Grand Coulee grazing HAVELL Idaho increase investigations irrigation JOHNSON of Oklahoma June 30 JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE kilowatts Lake leases LEAVY maps MENDENHALL ment miles mineral National Park Service necessary operation and maintenance percent personnel power plant production Public Works Administration pumping purchase RAVER reclamation fund record requested Reservoir revenues RICH River road salaries SCRUGHAM Secretary ICKES SHEPPARD statement stations substation supply Taylor Grazing Act tion transmission lines United Valley Washington
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Page 278 - It shall be unlawful for any person employed in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or any agency or department thereof, to use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof. No officer or employee in the executive branch of the Federal Government, or any agency or department thereof, shall take any active part in political management or in political campaigns.
Page 473 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water and a main canal and appurtenant structures located entirely within the United States connecting the Laguna Dam, or other suitable diversion dam...
Page 473 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 623 - 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 201 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 65 - State or by the consumers' counsel. Sec. 16. To safeguard the interests of those concerned in the mining, transportation, selling, and consumption of coal, the Commission or the office of consumers' counsel is hereby vested with authority to make complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to rates, charges, tariffs, and practices relating to the transportation of coal, and to prosecute the same. Before...
Page 691 - The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of 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...
Page 526 - 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 685 - ... and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other necessary expenses, and including $11,300 for personal services in the District of Columbia...
Page 480 - Dam, or other suitable diversion dam, which the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct if deemed necessary or advisable by him upon engineering or economic considerations, with the Imperial and Coachella Valleys in California...