PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 421 -JUNE 25, 1940 Reproductio aerial photogra etc. Administrative penses. ProVwiso. Restriction. Soil and moi conservation and use investigation Conservation Service shall be available for meeting the expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Soil Conservation Service and for sale and distribution to other Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling), to be reim- bursed to appropriations current at the time additional supplies, materials, or equipment are procured from the appropriations charge- able with the cost or value of such supplies, materials, or equip- onof ment: Provided further, That reproductions of such aerial or other phs, photographs, mosaics, and maps as shall be required in connection with the authorized work of the Soil Conservation Service may be furnished at the cost of reproduction to Federal, State, county, or municipal agencies requesting such reproductions, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of this appropriation; as follows: e x General administrative expenses: For necessary expenses for gen- eral administrative purposes, including the salary of the Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and other personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia, $550,000: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated in this paragraph shall be available for expenditure if any emergency appropriations are made available for administrative expenses in administering the funds provided in regular appropri- ations to the Soil Conservation Service. ist r e Soil and moisture conservation and land-use investigations: For , et. research and investigations into the character cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion, soil and moisture depletion and methods of soil and moisture conservation (including the construction and hydrologic phases of farm irrigation and land drainage); and for construction, operation, and maintenance of experimental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations, $1,500,000. Soil and moisture conservation and land-use operations, demonstra- tions, and information: For carrying out preventive measures to conserve soil and moisture, including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs, and including the improvement of farm irrigation and land drainage, the establishment and operation of erosion nurseries, the making of conservation plans and surveys, and the dissemination of informa- tion, $18,965,750: Provided, That any part of this appropriation tock. allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock by any Federal agency, or funds appropriated to any Federal agency for allocation to cooperating States for the production or procurement of nursery stock, shall remain available for expenditure for not more than three fiscal years. erosion Emergency erosion control, Everglades region, Florida: For adesre- research and demonstration work in soil conservation control meas- ures, including research and demonstration work in fire control and irrigation construction work to eliminate fire hazards, in the Ever- glades region of Florida, $75,000: Provided, That no expenditures contr- shall be made for these purposes until a sum at least equal to such expenditures shall have been made available by the State of Florida, or a political subdivision thereof, for the same purposes. alserv- Total, salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, $21,090,750, of which not to exceed $1,724,174 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, and not to exceed $200,000 shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of field work outside the District of Columbia. Proviso. Nursery 8 funds available. Emergency ( control, Evergla gion, Fla. Proviso. State, etc., bution. Total; person ices. Vehicles. [54 STAT.
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