PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 541 -JULY 5, 1946 Personal services. Of the foregoing amounts for the National Bureau of Standards not to exceed $4,170,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. WEATHER BUREAU Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for carrying into effect in the United States and possessions, on ships at sea, and else- where when directed by the Secretary, the provisions of sections 1 26 Stat. 63 . and 3 of an Act approved October 1, 1890 (15 U. S. C. 311-313), the 56 Stat. 1012 . 15 U. s . c ., Supp. Act approved October 29, 1942 (15 U. S . C . 323), and section 803 V, §323. 52Stat. 1014. of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (49 U. S. C. 603), including ost,p. 944 . investigations of atmospheric phenomena; cooperation with other public agencies and societies and institutions of learning; purchase of books of reference; purchase of newspapers (not to exceed $50); traveling expenses, including not to exceed $1,500 for attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau when authorized by the Secretary; purchase (not to exceed eight), maintenance, opera- Maintenance, etc., tion, and repair of passenger automobiles; maintenance, operation, rplane. and repair of one airplane, which the War or Navy Department is authorized to transfer to the Weather Bureau without payment therefor; repair, alterations, and improvements to existing buildings and care and preservation of grounds, including the construction of necessary outbuildings and sidewalks on public streets, abutting Weather Bureau grounds; the erection of temporary buildings for living and working quarters of observers; telephone rentals, and telegraphing, telephoning, and cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary by agreement with the companies perform- ing the service; and establishment, equipment, and maintenance of meteorological offices and stations; $17,500,000, of which not to exceed $1,525,000 may be expended for departmental personal services in the International Mete- District of Columbia; not to exceed $1,500 for the contribution of the United States to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the Printingoffice. International Meteorological Committee; and not to exceed $10,000 for the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said Bureau: Provided further, men r ntom far q ap That the War and Navy Departments are authorized, during the Navy Departments. fiscal year 1947, to transfer without charge to the Weather Bureau, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, equipment and supplies for upper air soundings: Provided furtXer ArIntiregtions That in the conduct of meteorological investigations in the Arctic Ante,p. 4. region, pursuant to Public Law 296, approved February 12, 1946, the funds herein appropriated shall be available for the appointment of employees at rates to be fixed by the Chief of the Weather Bureau 42 Stat. 148 . without regard to the civil-service laws and Classification Act, but BSppv. 2,,2l1c((. the maximum base rate of pay shall not be in excess of $7,500 per Ante,pp."21 annum and at no time more than three employees shall be in a pay status at such rate of pay, and no other employees shall receive in excess of the base rate of pay of $5,000 per annum; the furnishing of food, shelter, and protective clothing and equipment, without repayment therefor, to employees of the Government assigned to Transfer of surpus Arctic stations; and the War and Navy Departments are authorized equipment from War and Navy Depart- in the fiscal year 1947, subject to the approval of the Director of the . Bureau of the Budget, to transfer without charge to the Weather Bureau materials, equipment, and supplies, surplus to the needs of the War and Navy Departments and necessary for the establishment maintenance, and operation of Arctic weather stations: Provided 474 [60 STAT.
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