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[70 Stat. 479]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 479]

70 S T A T. ]

479

PUBLIC LAW 641-JULY 2, 1956

SEC. 202. Appropriations in this title shall be available for expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or oflSce), with the approval of the Secretary, for the emergency reconstruction, replacement or repair of buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes: Provided, That no funds shall be made available under this authority until funds specifically made available to the Department of the Interior for emergencies shall have been exhausted. SEC. 203. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or office) of any appropriation in this title, in addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the several agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest or range fires on or threatening lands under jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior. SEC. 204. Appropriations in this title shall be available for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or economy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services rendered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by the Act of June 30, 1932 (31 U.S.C. 686): Provided, That reimbursements for cost of supplies, materials and equipment, and for services rendered may be credited to the appropriation current at the time such reimbursements are received. TITLE III—CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CEMETERTAL EXPENSES

For necessary cemeterial expenses as authorized by law, including maintenance, operation, and improvement of national cemeteries, and purchase of headstones and markers for unmarked graves; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles; maintenance of that portion of Congressional Cemetery to which the United States has title, Confederate burial places under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, The Surrender Tree site in Cuba, and graves used by the Army in commercial cemeteries; $6,765,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be used to repair more than a single approach road to any national cemetery: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be obligated for construction of a superintendent's lodge or family quarters at a cost per unit in excess of $14,000, but such limitation may be increased by such additional amounts as may be required to provide office space, public comfort rooms, or space for the storage of Government property within the same structure. RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL

The following appropriations shall be expended under of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the gineers for authorized civil functions of the Department pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, beach related purposes:

the direction Chief of Enof the Army erosion, and

GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS

For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects, and when authorized by law, preliminary examinations, surveys and studies (including cooperative beach erosion studies as authorized in Public Law Numbered 520, Seventy-first Con-

E m e r g e ncy reconstructiotw

Fire preventioiia

Operation of warehouses, etc.

47 Stat. 417.