PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 543 -JUNE 19,1948 Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening lands under Forest Service administration, including lands under contract for purchase or in process of condemnation for Forest Service purposes, $100,000, which amount shall also be available for meeting obligations of the preceding fiscal year. Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the pro- visions of sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act approved May 22, 46Stat.699-702 . 1928, as amended (16 U. S . C . 581, 581a, 581f-581i), including the construction and maintenance of improvements, as follows: Forest and range management investigations: Fire, silvicultural, watershed, and other forest investigations and experiments under said 16..s. I 581a. section 2, as amended, and investigations and experiments to develop improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under 16U. . a.. 581f. section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $2,787,500. Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests .of forest 16 U. .. 581g. products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or else- where, $1,125,000. Forest resources investigations: A comprehensive forest survey 16 U. S. c.o 58ih, under section 9, and investigations in forest economics under section . 10, $822,000. FOREST-FIE COOPERATION 43 Stat. 653. 16 U.S . C., Supp. I, §565. 50 Stat. 188 . 43 Stat. 654 . 36 Stat. 961. For cooperation with the various States or other appropriate agen- cies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act approved June 7, 1924, as amended (16 U. S . C . 564-570), $9,000,000, of which not to exceed $76,125 shall be available for personal services in the District of Columbia. FARM AND OTHER PRIVATE FORESTRY COOPERATION To enable the Secretary through the Forest Service to advise timber- land owners and associations, wood-using industries or other appro- priate agencies in the application of forest management principles to federally owned lands leased to States and to private forest lands, so as to attain sustained-yield management, the conservation of the timber resources, the productivity of forest lands, and the stabiliza- tion of employment and economic continuance of forest industries, and to carry into effect, through such agencies of the Department as he may designate, the provisions of the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act, approved May 18,1937 (16 U. S. C . 568b), (not to exceed $660,034) and the provisions of sections 4 (not to exceed $83,700) and 5 (not to exceed $65,766) of the Act approved June 7, 1924 (16 U. S . C . 567- 568), and Acts supplementary thereto; in all, not to exceed $809,500, of which not to exceed $54,636 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; and not to exceed $30,000 for the con- struction, alteration, or purchase of necessary buildings, and other improvements. ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR NATIONAL FORESTS Under Weeks Act: For the acquisition of forest lands under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U. S . C . 513-519, 521), $500,000, to be available only for payment toward the purchase price of any lands acquired, including the cost of surveys in connection with such acquisition. Under special Acts: For the acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil erosion and flood damage originating within the exterior boundaries of the following national forests, m accordance 522 [62 STAT.
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