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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 543 -JUNE 19, 1948 CONTROL OF EMERGENCY OUTBREAKS OF INSECTS AND PLANT DISEASES For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the joint resolution approved May 9, 1938 (7 U. S . C. 1 4 8-148e) including the operation and maintenance of airplanes and the purchase of not to exceed three, and surveys and control operations in Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Government or local Canadian author- ities, and the employment of Canadian citizens, $1,750,000. BUREAU OF AGRICULTrUAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demon- strations hereinafter authorized, including not to exceed $237,746 for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Agricultural chemical and naval stores investigations: For con- ducting the investigations contemplated by the Act of May 15, 1862 (5 U. S. C . 511, 512), relating to the application of chemistry to agri- culture; for the biological, chemical, physical, microscopical, and tech- nological investigation of foods, feeds, drugs, plant and animal prod- ucts, and substances used in the manufacture thereof; for investiga- tions of the physiological effects and for the pharmacological testing of such products and of insecticides; for the investigation and develop- ment of methods for the manufacture of sugars, sugar sirups, and starches and the utilization of new agricultural materials for such purposes; and for the technological investigation of the utilization of fruits and vegetables and for frozen-pack investigations; for the inves- tigation of naval stores (turpentine and rosin) and their components; the investigation and experimental demonstration of improved equip- ment, methods, or processes of preparing naval stores; and the weigh- ing, storing, handling, transportation, and utilization of naval stores; $634,050. Regional research laboratories: For continuing the researches estab- lished under the provisions of section 202 (a) to 202 (e), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (7 U. S . C . 1292), including research on food products of farm commodities, $5,000,000, including not to exceed $50,000 for the construction of a hazardous operations building at the Eastern Regional Research Lab- oratory located at Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $311,765 for personal services in the District of Columbia, for conducting investigations of the relative utility and economy of agri- cultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utiliza- tion of such products for these purposes, and such economic investiga- tions, including housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, and for disseminating useful information on this subject, $813,000. CONTROL OF FOREST PESTS For expenses necessary for carrying out operations, measures, or surveys necessary to eradicate, suppress, control, or to prevent or retard the spread of insects or diseases which endanger forest trees on any lands in the United States, and for such quarantine measures relating thereto as may be necessary pursuant to the Plant Quar- antine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S . C . 151-167), 519 52 Stat. 344 . Cooperation with Canada. 12 Stat. 387. 52 Stat. 37. Hazardous opera- tions building. 37 Stat. 315. 7 U.S. C.. Supp. I, I1M.