Vehicles and supplies; purchase (not to exceed one), operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled trucks and passenger-carrying vehicles for official use and in transporting employees between their homes and temporary locations where they may be employed and purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; travel, and other incidental expenses of employees in attendance at meetings and conferences held for promoting safety and health in the coal-mining industry; $1,004,860. Enforcement of Federal Explosives Act: For all necessary expenses of the Bureau of Mines in performing the duties imposed upon it by 55 Stat.863 . the Federal Explosives Act, including not to exceed $16,000 for 50 U. S. C., Supp. IV° 121 -142: pp . personal services in the District of Columbia; newspapers; not to exceed $500 for printing and binding; contract stenographic report- ing services; supplies and equipment; traveling expenses; mainte- nance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying automobiles; pur- chase of special wearing apparel or equipment for the protection of employees while engaged in their work; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly charge- Ane, p. 319. able to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Cooperation with Interior"; $100,000: Provided,That the Secretary, through the Direc- otheragencies. tor of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to carry out projects hereunder in cooperation with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, the District of Columbia, States, Territories, insular possessions, with other organizations or individuals, and with foreign countries and the political subdivisions thereof. Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most Recommendations efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes to Government agen- eies. in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investi- gate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed .for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia; and special wearing apparel and equipment for protection of employees while employed; $320,000, of which not to exceed $83,750 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. anthracite investi- Anthracite investigations: For all expenses necessary to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of anthracite coals; includ- ing purchase of special wearing apparel and equipment for the pro- tection of employees while engaged in their work; and other items Ante, p. 19. otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior"; operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automobiles; and not to exceed $6,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $66,000. Synthetic liquid Synthetic liquid fuels: For all expenses, without regard to section fuels. A 4U. .c. C. . 3709, Revised Statutes, necessary to carry into effect the Act author- izing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to pro- duce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural and forestry products, and so forth, approved April 5, 1944 (Public, 30 Ut. 1C Supp. Numbered 290), including construction and acquirement of camp and rI, 1§ 321-325. ' laboratory buildings and equipment, personal services in the District of Columbia (not exceeding $90,000); not to exceed $50,000 for temporary employment of engineers, architects, or firms or corpora- tions thereof, by contract or otherwise, without regard to civil-service [59 STAT. 346 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 262-JULY 3, 1945
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