PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 529-JULY 1, 1946 The following appropriations herein made to the Bureau of Mines shall be available for the hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft: "Operating rescue cars and stations and investigation of accidents"; "Investigation and development of domestic mineral deposits, except fuels"; and "Metallurgical research and pilot plants". NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Salaries and expenses: For expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia, necessary for the general administration of the National Park Service, including $62,500 for printing and binding, $711,248. Regional offices: For salaries and expenses of regional offices nec- essary in the administration, protection, maintenance, and improve- ment of the national park system, $659,407. National parks: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of national parks, including necessary protection of the area of federally owned land in the custody of the National Park Service known as the Ocean Strip and Queets Corridor, adjacent to Olympic National Park, Washington, $3,290,000. National monument, historical, and military areas: For adminis- tration, protection, maintenance, improvement, and preservation of national monuments, historical parks, memorials, historic sites, mili- tary parks, battlefields, and cemeteries, including not exceeding $308 for right-of-way easements across privately owned railroad lands nec- essary for supplying water to the Statue of Liberty National Monu- ment, and the maintenance of structures on the former Cape Hatteras Light Station Reservation within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area project, $1,375,000. Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For adminis- tration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Dam Recreational Area, $71,500. Lake Texoma Recreational Area, Texas and Oklahoma: For admin- istration, protection, improvement, and maintenance in cooperation with the Chief of Engineers of the War Department of areas devoted to recreational use within the Denison Dam and Reservoir projects, $50,000. Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires: For reconstruc- tion, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equipment in areas under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in areas administered by the National Park Service or fires that endanger such areas, including lands in process of condemnation for national park or monument pur- Transferof funda poses, $30,000, together with not to exceed $100,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary from the various appropriations Report to Congress. for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. Accounting. The total of the foregoing amounts shall be available in one fund Interchange of for the National Park Service: Provided, That 5 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably and any such diversion of funds shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Investigation and purchase of water rights: The unexpended balance of funds available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1946 is continued available for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1947. 376 [60 STAT. Airraft.
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