An Act making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes
PL 83-472 (H.R.9447), enacted 07/02/1954

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July 2, 1954 
fH. R. 9447] 
Public Law 472 
CHAPTER 457 
AN ACT 
_ Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, and Healtli, Education, and 
Welfare, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1955, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Lit^rfaiSfHelithf United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
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sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
tion Act, 1955. 
appropriated, for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, 
and Welfare, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1955, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPAKTMENT OF LABOR 
60 Stat. 810. 
OFFICE o r THE SECRETARY 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of the 
Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this title referred to as the Secretary), 
including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 
1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); teletype news service; and payment in advance 
when authorized by the Secretary for dues or fees for library member-
ship in organizations whose publications are available to members only 
or to members at a price lower than to the general public; $1,327,000, 
of which not more than $85,000 shall be for international labor affairs. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of the 
Solicitor, $1,450,000. 
63 Stat. 865. 
61 Stat. 136. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STANDARDS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the promotion of 
industrial safety, employment stabilization, and amicable industrial 
relations for labor and industry; performance of safety functions 
of the Secretary under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, 
as amended (5 U. S. C. 784 (c)) ; performance of the functions 
vested in the Secretary by title I of the Labor-Management Relations 
Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 159 (f) and ( g ) ) ; not to exceed $50,000 for 
improving the conditions of migratory labor; and not less than 
$75,000 for the work of the President's Committee on National 
Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, as authorized by the 
Act of July 11, 1949 (63 Stat. 409) and provided further that no part 
of the appropriation for the President's Committee shall be subject to 
reduction or transfer to any other department or agency under the 
provisions of any existing law; including purchase of reports and of 
material for informational exhibits and expenses of attendance of 
cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the 
w ork of the Bureau of Labor Standards; $722,500. 
54 Stat. 890. 
55 Stat. 626. 
50 USCapp. 351. 
54 Stat. 858. 
50 USCapp, 401. 
62 Stat. 614; 65 
Stat. 86. 
50 USCapp. 459. 
BUREAU o r VETERANS' REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to render assistance 
in connection w ith the exercise of reemployment rights under section 
8 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended (50 
U. S. C. App. 308), the Service Extension Act of 1941, as amended, 
the Army Reserve and Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940, as 
amended, and section 9 of the Universal Military Training and 
Service Act, and, under the Act of June 23, 1943, as amended (50 
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U. S. C. App. 1472), of persons who have performed service in the 
57 stat. i62. 
Merchant Marine, $300,000. 
BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIl-
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to enable the Secre-
tary to conduct a program of encouraging apprentice training as 
authorized by the Act of August 16,1937 (29 U. S. C. 50), $3,100,000. 
so stat. 664. 
BUREAU o r EMPLOYMENT SECURITY 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the general 
administration of the employment service and unemployment compen-
sation programs, including temporary employment of persons, with-
out regard to the civil-service laws, for the farm placement migratory 
labor program; and not to exceed $10,000 for services as authorized by 
section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); $4,705,000, of 
^o stat. sio. 
which $1,100,000 may be for carrying into effect the provisions of title 
IV (except section 602) of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. 
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Grants to States for unemployment compensation and employment 
service administration: r'or grants in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act of June 6,1933, as amended (29 U. S. C. 49-49n), for carry- 
48 stat. 113. 
ing into effect section 602 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 
1944, for grants to the States as authorized in title I I I of the Social 
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Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 501-503), including, upon the 
^9 stat. 626. 
request of any State, the purchase of equipment, and the payment of 
rental for space made available to such State in lieu of grants for such 
purpose, for necessary expenses in connection with the operation of 
employment office facilities and services in the District of Columbia, 
and for expenses not otherwise provided for, necessary for carrying 
out title IV of the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952 (66 
Stat. 684), $216,400,000, of which $16,400,000 shall be available only 
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to the extent that the Secretary finds necessary to meet increased 
costs of administration resulting from changes in a State law or 
increases in the numbers of claims filed and claims paid over those 
upon which the State's basic grant (or the allocation for the District of 
Columbia) was based, which increased costs of administration cannot 
be provided for by normal budgetary adjustments: Provided^ That 
notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 302 (a) of 
the Social Security Act, as amended, the Secretary of Labor shall from 
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time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to 
each State found to be in compliance with the requirements of the Act 
of June 6,1933, and, except in the case of Puerto Rico and the Virgin 
Islands, with the provisions of section 303 of the Social Security Act, 
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as amended, such amounts as he determines to be necessary for the 
proper and efficient administration of its unemployment compensation 
law and of its public employment offices: Provided further^ That such 
amounts as may be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and the 
Post Office Department shall be used for the payment, in such manner 
as said parties may jointly determine, of postage for the transmission 
of official mail matter in connection with the administration of unem-
ployment compensation systems and employment services by States 
receiving grants herefrom. 
In carrying out the provisions of said Act of June 6, 1933, the 
provisions of section 303 (a) (1) of the Social Security Act, as 
amended, relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel 
standards on a merit basis, shall apply. 
None of the funds appropriated by this title to the Bureau of 
Employment Security for grants-in-aid of State agencies to cover, 
in whole or in part, the cost of operation of said agencies including 
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49 Stat. 626. 
42 u s e 501-503. 
48 u s e 113. 
29 u s e 49-49n. 
66 Stat. 684. 
38 u s e 991-999. 
65 Stat. 119. 
7 u s e 1461-1468. 
the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of said agencies, 
shall be withheld from the said agencies of any States which have 
established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit 
system and classification and compensation plan covering the selec-
tion, tenure in office, and compensation of their employees, because of 
any disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection 
by the agencies of the said States, or the rates of pay of said officers 
or employees. 
Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year; For making, after 
May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under title 
I I I of the Social Security Act, as amended, and under the Act of 
June 6, 1933, as amended, for the first quarter of the next succeeding 
fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred 
and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under such title 
and under such Act of June 6, 1933, to be charged to the appropria-
tion therefor for that fiscal year. 
Unemployment compensation for veterans: For payments to unem-
ployed veterans as authorized by title IV of the Veterans' Readjust-
ment Assistance Act of 1952, $55,600,000. 
Unemployment compensation for veterans, next succeeding fiscal 
year: For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to 
States, as authorized by title IV of the Veterans' Readjustment Assist-
ance Act of 1952, such sums as may be necessary to pay benefits for the 
first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, and the obligations and 
expenditures thereunder shall be charged to the appropriation there-
for for that fiscal year. 
Salaries and expenses, Mexican farm labor program: For expenses, 
not otherwise provided for, necessary to carry out the functions of 
the Department of Labor under the Act of July 12, 1951 (Public Law 
78), as amended, including temporary employment of persons without 
regard to the civil service laws, $1,581,000. 
62 Stat. 1247. 
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2012. 
60 Stat. 696. 
39 Stat. 742. 
BUREAU OF EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary administrative expenses and 
not to exceed $112,000 for the Employees' Compensation Appeals 
Board, $2,030,000, together with not to exceed $90,000 to be derived 
from the War Claims Fund created by section 13 (a) of the War Claims 
Act of 1948 (50 U. S. C. 2012). 
Employees' compensation fund: For the payment of compensation 
and other benefits and expenses (except administrative expenses) 
authorized by law and accruing during the current or any prior fiscal 
year, including payments to other Federal agencies for medical and 
hospital services pursuant to agreement approved by the Bureau of 
Employees' Compensation; continuation of payment of benefits as 
provided for under the head "Civilian War Benefits" in the Federal 
Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the advancement of costs 
for enforcement of recoveries in third-party cases; the furnishing of 
medical and hospital services and supplies, treatment, and funeral and 
burial expenses, including transportation and other expenses inci-
dental to such services, treatment, and burial, for such enrollees of the 
Civilian Conservation Corps as were certified by the Director of such 
Corps as receiving hospital services and treatment at Government 
expense on June 30,1943, and who are not otherwise entitled thereto as 
civilian employees of the United States, and the limitations and 
authority of the Act of September 7,1916, as amended (5 U. S. C. 796), 
shall apply in providing such services, treatment, and expenses in such 
cases; such amount as may be required during the current fiscal year: 
Provided^ That this appropriation shall be available for payments 
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pursuant to sections 4 (c) and 5 (f) of the War Claims Act of 1948 
(50 U. S. C. 2012) and shall be credited with advances or reimburse-
ments therefor from the War Claims Fund created by section 13 (a) 
of said War Claims Act of 1948. 
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2003, 2004. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the 
Bureau, including advances or reimbursement to State, Federal, and 
local agencies and their employees for services rendered, and not to 
exceed $15,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of 
August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 56a), $5,350,000. 
60 Stat. 810. 
WOMEN S BUREAU 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the work of the 
Women's Bureau, as authorized by the Act of June 5,1920 (29 U. S. C. 
11-16), including purchase of reports and material for informational 
exhibits, $348,000. 
WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for performing the 
duties imposed by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 
and the Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the 
making of contracts by the United States, approved June 30, 1936, as 
amended (41 IT. S. C. 35-45), including reimbursement to State, 
Federal, and local agencies and their employees for inspection services 
rendered, and not to exceed $3,000 for expenses of attendance of 
cooperating officials and consultants at conferences concerned with the 
work of the Division, $6,116,500. 
41 Stat. 987. 
52 Stat. 1060. 
29 u s e 201. 
49 Stat. 2036. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Appropriations under this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for stenographic reporting services as 
authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), 
and for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the func-
tion or activity for which any such appropriation is made. 
This title may be cited as the "Department of Labor Appropriation 
Act, 1955". 
60 Stat. 810. 
Citation of title. 
TITLE 
II—DEPARTME?^T 
OF 
HEALTH, 
EDUCATION, 
AND WELFARE 
AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND 
Education of the blind: For carrying out the Act of August 4,1919, 
as amended (20U. S. C. 101),$205,000. 
41 Stat. 272. 
COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF 
Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Columbia Insti-
tution for the Deaf, including personal services and miscellaneous 
expenses, and repairs and improvements, $410,000: Provided^ That 
the Columbia Institution for the Deaf shall be paid by the District 
of Columbia, in advance at the beginning of each quarter, at the rate 
of $1,295 per school year for each student attending said Institution 
pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1901 (31 D. C. Code 1008). 
Construction: For the construction of a library-class room building 
at the Columbia Institution for the Deaf $240,000, to remain available 
until expended; and for alterations, $19,0C)0; in all, $259,000. 
31 Stat. 844. 
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29 S t a t . 6 0 4; 44 
Stat. 
1101, 1406; 
42 Stat. 1486. 
52 S t a t . 
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55 S t a t . 8 5 1; 59 
Stat. 463. 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses for carrying out the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 
301-392); the Tea Importation Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 41-50); 
the Import Milk Act (21U. S. C 141-149); the Federal Caustic Poison 
Act (15 U. S. C. 401-411); and the Filled Milk Act, as amended (21 
U. S. C. 61-64); reporting and illustrating the results of investigations; 
purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and scientific equipment; not to 
exceed $2,000 for payment in advance for special tests and analyses by 
contract; and payment of fees, travel, and per diem in connection with 
studies of new developments pertinent to food and drug enforcement 
operations; $5,100,000. 
Salaries and expenses, certification and inspection services: For 
expenses necessary for the certification or inspection of certain products 
in accordance with sections 406, 504, 506, 507, 604, 702A, and 706 of the 
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended (21 U. S. C. 346, 
354, 356,357,364, 372a, and 376), the aggregate of the advance deposits 
during the current fiscal year to cover payment of fees by applicants 
for certification or inspection of such products, to remain available 
until expended. 
The total amount herein appropriated shall be avail-
able for personal services; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and 
scientific equipment; and the refund of advance deposits for which no 
service has been rendered. 
Salary r e s t r i c -
tion. 
Payment by Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
FREEDMEN S HOSPITAL 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for operation and 
maintenance, including repairs; furnishing, repairing, and cleaning of 
wearing apparel used by employees in the performance of their official 
duties; transfer of funds to the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, 
Howard University" for salaries of technical and professional per-
sonnel detailed to the hospital; payments to the appropriation of 
Howard University for actual cost of heat, light, and power furnished 
by such university; $2,880,000: Provided^ That no intern or resident 
physician receiving compensation from this appropriation on a full-
time basis shall receive compensation in the form of wages or salary 
from any other appropriation in this title: Provided further^ That the 
District of Columbia shall pay by check to Freedmen's Hospital, upon 
the Surgeon General's request, in advance at the beginning of each 
quarter, such amount as the Surgeon General calculates will be earned 
on the basis of rates approved by the Bureau of the Budget for the care 
of patients certified by the District of Columbia. 
Bills rendered by 
the Surgeon General on the basis of such calculations shall not be 
subject to audit or certification in advance of payment; but proper 
adjustment of amounts which have been paid in advance on the basis 
of such calculations shall be made at the end of each quarter: Provided 
further^ That the Surgeon (jeneral ma^ delegate the responsibilities 
imposed upon him by the foregoing proviso. 
HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Howard Uni-
versity, including personal services and miscellaneous expenses and 
repairs to buildings and grounds, $2,720,000. 
Construction of buildings: For the construction and equipment of 
buildings and facilities, under the supervision of the General Services 
Administration, on the grounds of Howard University, including 
engineering and architectural services and travel, to remain avail-
able until expended, as f 
ollow^s: 
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For a preclinical medical building, together with alterations and 
installations in connection with such construction, $4,436,000. 
For a power substation, together with necessary alterations within 
the power plant, $272,000. 
For repairs to the power plant, $100,000. 
Construction of buildings (liquidation of contract authorization) : 
For payment of obligations incurred under authority 
previously 
grovided, to enter into contracts for the construction of the following: 
iology-greenhouse building, $250,000; law building, $200,000; and 
administration building, $700,000. 
OFFICE OF EDUCATION 
Promotion and further development of vocational education: For 
carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Vocational Education 
Act of 1946 (20 U. S, C. 15), section 4 of the Act of March 10, 1924 
(20 U. S. C. 29), section 1 of the Act of March 3,1931 (20 U. S. C. 30), 
and the Act of March 18, 1950 (Public Law 462), $23,673,261: Fro-
vided^ That the apportionment to the States under the Vocational 
Education Act of 1946 shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed 
$23,498,261 for the current fiscal year: Provided further^ That not 
more than $900,000 of this appropriation shall be available for voca-
tional education in distributive occupations. 
Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic 
arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act of June 
29,1935, as amended, $2,501,500. 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of Edu-
cation, including surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regard-
ing libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library 
service; coordination of library service on the national level with other 
forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal 
projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials 
among libraries, interstate library coordination and the development 
of library service throughout the country; purchase, distribution, and 
exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern 
slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus 
and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school build-
ings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of 
education, and repairing the same; $2,900,000, of which not less than 
$480,000 shall be available for the Division of Vocational Education 
as authorized: Provided^ That all receipts from non-Federal agencies 
representing reimbursement for expenses of travel of employees of 
the Office of Education performing advisory functions to the said 
agencies shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to 
the credit of this appropriation. 
Payments to school districts: For payments to local educational 
agencies for the maintenance and operation of schools as authorized 
by the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874), as amended, 
$55,000,000: Provided^ That this appropriation shall also be available 
for carrying out the provisions of section 6 of such Act. 
Assistance for school construction: For an additional amount for 
providing school facilities and for grants to local educational agencies 
in federally affected areas, as authorized by titles I I I and IV of the 
Act of September 23, 1950 (Public Law 815), as amended, including 
not to exceed $575,000 for necessary expenses of technical services 
rendered by other agencies, $70,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, and of which $12,000,000 shall be available for carrying out 
title IV of said Act: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available for salaries or other direct expenses of the Depart-
60 Stat. 775. 
20 u s e 15j. 
43 S t a t . 18; 46 
Stat. 1489. 
64 Stat. 27. 
20 u s e 31-33. 
49 Stat. 439. 
7 u s e 329. 
64 Stat. 1100. 
20 u s e 236-244. 
67 Stat. 522. 
20 u s e 291-311. 
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ment of Health, Education, and Welfare: Provided further^ That the 
sum of $125,000 made available for "technical services rendered by 
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other ageucics" under this head in Public Law 357, 83d Congress, 
shall remain available through June 30, 1955. 
O F n C E OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) : 
For payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) 
in accordance with the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended 
57 Stat. 374. 
(29 U. S. C , ch. 4) iucludiug payments, in accordance with regulations 
of the Secretary, for one-half of necessary expenditures for the acqui-
sition of vending stands or other equipment in accordance with section 
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3 (^2i) (3) (C) of Said Act for the use of blind persons, such stands or 
other equipment to be controlled by the State agency, $23,000,000, of 
which not to exceed $195,000 shall be available to the Secretary for 
providing rehabilitation services to disabled residents of the District 
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of Columbia, as authorized by section 6 of said Act, which latter 
amount shall be available for administrative expenses in connection 
with providing such services in the District of Columbia: Provided^ 
That not to exceed 15 per centum of the appropriation shall be used for 
administrative purposes: Provided 
further^ That the funds herein 
appropriated shall be made available to the States in accordance with 
29 use 3^*n'ote. ^^^ provisious of section 3 (a) of Public Law 113 (Seventy-eighth 
Congress) approved July 6, 1943. 
Payments to States (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico), 
next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after May 31, of the current 
fiscal year, payments to States in accordance with the Vocational 
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Rehabilitation Act, as amended (including the objects specified in the 
preceding paragraph), for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal 
year such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the 
expenditures made thereunder to be charged to the appropriation 
therefor for that fiscal year: Provided^ That the payments made pur-
suant to this paragraph shall not exceed the amount paid to the States 
for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary in carrying out the 
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provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and of 
the Act approved June 20, 1936 (20 U. S. C , ch. 6A), including not 
to exceed $3,000 for production, purchase, and distribution of educa-
tional films; $635,000. 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Public Health Service 
58 Stat. 682. 
Act, as amended (42 U. S. C , ch. 6A) (hereinafter referred to as the 
Act), and other Acts, including expenses for active commissioned 
officers in the Reserve Corps and for not to exceed one thousand five 
hundred commissioned officers in the Regular Corps, as follows: 
Assistance to States, general: To carry out the purposes, not other-
wise specifically provided for, of section 314 (c) of the Act; to provide 
consultative services to States pursuant to section 311 of the Act; to 
make field investigations and demonstrations pursuant to section 301 
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ity, and vital statistics; and not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment 
of officials of other countries when specifically authorized by the Sur-
geon General; $13,000,000, of which not more than $2,400,000 shall 
be available for personal services. 
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Venereal diseases: To carry out the purposes of sections 314 (a) and 
363 of the Act with respect to venereal diseases including the operation 
and maintenance of centers for the diagnosis and treatment of persons 
62 Stat. 1155. 
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afflicted with venereal diseases; and for grants of money, services, 
supplies, equipment, and use of facilities to States, as defined in the Act, 
and with the approval of the respective State health authorities, to 
counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States, 
for the foregoing purposes, in such amounts and upon such terms and 
conditions as the Surgeon General may determine; $3,000,000. 
Tuberculosis: To carry out the purposes of section 314 (b) of the 
Act, $6,000,000, of which not less than $4,500,000 shall be available 
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only for grants to States, to be matched by an equal amount of State 
and local funds expended for the samfe purpose, for direct expenses of 
prevention and case-finding projects including salaries, fees, and 
travel of personnel directly engaged in prevention and case-finding 
and the necessary equipment and supplies used directly in prevention 
and case-finding operations, but excluding the purchase of care in 
hospitals and sanatoria. 
Communicable diseases: To carry out, except as otherwise provided 
for, those provisions of sections 301, 311, and 361 of the Act relating to ^^^ "^^ 24i, 243, 
the prevention and suppression of communicable and preventable 
diseases, and the interstate transmission and spread thereof, including 
the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable buildings; and 
hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; $4,300,000. 
Engineering, sanitation, and industrial hygiene: For expenses, not 
otherwise provided, necessary to carry out those provisions of sections 
301, 311, 314 (c), and 361 of the Act relating to sanitation and other ^^^^ ^tZ'^'^^''^^^' 
aspects of environmental health, including enforcement of applicable 
quarantine laws and interstate quarantine regulations, and for carry-
ing out the purposes of the Water Pollution Control Act (33 U. S. C. 
466-466 (j)) ; $3,565,000, of which not less than $270,000 shall be avail-
able only for completing construction of the Robert A. Taft Sanitary 
Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Disease and sanitation investigations and control. Territory of 
Alaska: To enable the Surgeon General to conduct, in the Service, and 
to cooperate with and assist the Territory of Alaska in the conduct of, 
activities necessary in the investigation, prevention, treatment, and 
control of diseases, and the establishment and maintenance of health 
and sanitation services pursuant to and for the purposes specified in 
sections 301, 311, 314 (without regard to the provisions of subsections 
(d), (f), (h), and (j) and the limitations set forth in subsection (c) 
of such section), 361 and 363 of the Act, including the hire, operation, ^^^ "sc 24^^. 243, 
and maintenance of aircraft, and the purchase, erection, and mainte-
nance of portable buildings, $1,125,000, of which not less than $160,000 
shall be available only for the activation and operation of the two 
immobilized marine health units "Health" and "Hygiene". 
Grants for hospital construction: For payments for hospital con-
struction under part C, title VI, of the Act, as amended, to remain 
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available until expended, $75,000,000: Provided^ That allotments 29ih. 
under such part C to the several States for the current fiscal year shall 
be made on the basis of an amount equal to the appropriation granted 
herein. 
Salaries and exj^enses, hospital construction services: For salaries 
and expenses incident to carrying out title VI of the Act, as amended, 
$850,000. 
Hospitals and medical care: For carrying out the functions of the 
Public Health Service under the Act of August 8,1946 (5 U. S. C. 150), 
so stat. 903. 
and under sections 321, 322, 324, 326, 331, 332, 341, 343, 344, 502, 504, 
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and 710 of the Public Health Service Act, and Executive Order 9079 259. 260: llo." 222'. 
of February 26, 1942, including purchase and exchange of farm prod- 76|c?°**' ^^ ^^^ 
ucts and livestock; conducting research on technical nursing standards cu*^^l' ^^^^ 
and furnishing consultative nursing services; and purchase of firearms 110 iT* ^^^" ^' 
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and ammunition; $33,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be exclusively 
available for payments to the Territory of Hawaii for care and treat-
ment of persons afflicted with leprosy: Provided^ That when the Public 
Health Service establishes or operates a health service program for 
any department or agency, payment for the estimated cost shall be 
made in advance for deposit to the credit of this appropriation. 
Foreign quarantine service: For carrying out the purposes of sec-
42 use 264-272. tious 361 to 369 of the Act, relating to preventing the introduction of 
communicable diseases from foreign countries, the medical examina-
42 use 252. 
tion of aliens in accordance with section 325 of the Act, and the care 
42 use 249. 
{^n(j treatment of quarantine detainees pursuant to section 322 (e) of 
the Act in private or other public hospitals when facilities of the 
Public Health Service are not available, including insurance of official 
motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by law of such 
countries; $2,900,000. 
National Institutes of Health, operating expenses: For the activi-
ties of the National Institutes of Health, not otherwise provided for, 
including research fellowships and grants for research projects pur-
42 use 241. 
suant to section 301 of the Act; not to exceed $1,000 for entertainment 
of visiting scientists when specifically approved by the Surgeon Gen-
eral; erection of temporary structures; and grants of therapeutic 
and chemical substances for demonstrations and research; $4,675,000: 
Provided^ That the Surgeon General is authorized to advance to this 
appropriation from other appropriations to the Public Health Service 
such amounts as are determined to be necessary for the foregoing pur-
poses and for activities performed on a centralized basis: Provided 
further^ That the Surgeon General is authorized to operate facilities 
at the National Institutes of Health for the sale of meals to employees 
and others at rates determined by him to be sufficient to recover the 
cost of such operation and the proceeds thereof shall be credited to this 
appropriation. 
National Cancer Institute: To enable the Surgeon General, upon the 
recommendations of the National Advisory Cancer Council, to make 
grants-in-aid for research and training projects relating to cancer; 
to cooperate with State health agencies, and other public and private 
nonprofit institutions, in the prevention, control, and eradication of 
cancer by providing consultative services, demonstrations, and grants-
42 use 281-286. in-aid; and to otherwise carry out the provisions of title IV, part A, 
of the Act; $21,737,000. _ 
Mental health activities: For expenses necessary for carrying out 
246. "^^ 241-244. the provislous of sections 301, 302, 303, 311, 312, and 314 (c) of the Act 
with respect to mental diseases, $14,147,500. 
National Heart Institute: For expenses necessary to carry out the 
42 use 287*note. Purposes of the National Heart Act, $16,668,000. 
Dental health activities: For expenses not otherwise provided for, 
necessary to enable the Surgeon General to carry out the purposes of 
^ 
the Act with respect to dental diseases and conditions, $1,990,000. 
Arthritis and metabolic disease activities: For expenses necessary to 
carry out the purposes of the Act relating to arthritis, rheumatism, and 
metabolic diseases, $8,270,000. 
Microbiology activities: For expenses necessary to carry out the 
purposes of the Act relating to microbiology, including the regulation 
and preparation of biologic products, $6,180,000. 
Neurology and blindness activities: For expenses necessary to carry 
out the purposes of the Act relating to neurology and blindness, 
$7,600,500. 
Gorgas Memorial Laboratory: For payment to the Gorgas Memorial 
Institute for maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial 
Laboratory, $131,000. 
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44S 
Retired pay of commissioned officers: For retired pay of commis-
sioned officers, as authorized by law, and payments under the Uni-
formed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953, $1,141,000. 
|7 sm. sou^^^^^ 
Salaries and expenses: For the divisions and offices of the Office of 
the Surgeon General and for miscellaneous expenses of the Public 
Health Service not appropriated for elsewhere, including preparing 
information, articles, and publications related to public health; and 
conducting studies and demonstrations in public health methods; 
$2,780,000. 
Administrative provisions: During the current fiscal year, and with 
the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, there may be transferred 
from any annual appropriation to the Public Health Service to any 
other such appropriation sucli additional amounts as may be required 
for pay and allowances of tlie active commissioned officers herein 
authorized, but any amounts so transferred shall not exceed 5 per 
centum of any such appropriation and no such appropriation shall 
be increased by more than 5 per centum as a result of any such 
transfers. 
SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL, 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the maintenance 
and operation of the hospital, including purchase of clothing for 
patients and cooperation with organizations or individuals in the 
scientific research into the nature, causes, prevention and treatment 
of mental illness, $2,445,000. 
Major repairs and preservation of buildings and grounds: For 
miscellaneous construction, alterations, repairs, and equipment, on 
the grounds of the hospital, including preparation of plans and speci-
fications, advertising, and supervision of construction, $709,000: Pro-
vided, That any part of this amount may be transferred to the General 
Services Administration. 
Construction, maximum security building: For the preparation of 
tentative drawings for a maximum security building at Saint Eliza-
beths Hospital, $110,000: Provided, That with respect to construction 
of new facilities hereafter authorized, and expenditures for major 
repairs of buildings and grounds, the per diem rate calculated for the 
District of Columbia pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 4, 
1947 (24 U. S. C. 168a), shall include a proportionate share of repairs 
^^ ^*°** ^^^* 
and of the annual increment of the depreciated total cost of such con-
struction, such depreciation to be based on the estimated life thereof, 
not exceeding forty years, beginning with the fiscal year following 
completion of construction, and such proportionate share shall be 
deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance: 
For necessary expenses, including furnishing, repairing, and cleaning 
of wearing apparel and equipment used by building guards; not more 
than $64,400,000 may be expended from the Federal old-age and 
survivors insurance trust fund. 
Grants to States for public assistance: For grants to States for old-
age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and aid to 
the permanently and totally disabled, as authorized in titles I, IV, X, 
and XIV of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C, ch. 7, 
subchs. I, IV, X, and XIV), $1,200,000,000, of which such amount as ^^if st«t- 620: 64 
may be necessary shall be available for grants for any period in the 
prior fiscal year subsequent to March 31 of that year. 
Salaries and expenses. Bureau of Public Assistance: For expenses 
necessary for the Bureau of Public Assistance, $1,487,500. 
Stat. 555. 
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[68 STAT. 
Salaries and expenses, Children's Bureau: For necessary expenses 
37 Stat. 79. 
jn Carrying out the Act of April 9,1912, as amended (42 U. S. C, eh. 6), 
and title V of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C , ch. 7, 
49 Stat. 629. 
subch. V), including purchase of reports and material for the publica-
tions of the Children's Bureau and of reprints for distribution, 
$1,525,000: Provided^ That no part of any appropriation contained in 
this title shall be used to promulgate or carry out any instriictions, 
order, or regulation relating to the care of obstetrical cases which dis-
criminate between persons licensed under State law to practice 
obstetrics: Provided further^ That the foregoing proviso shall not be 
so construed as to prevent any patient from having the services of any 
practitioner of her own choice, paid for out of this fund, so long as 
State laws are complied with: Provided further^ That any State plan 
which provides standards for professional obstetrical services in 
accordance with the laws of the State shall be approved. 
Grants to States for maternal and child welfare: For grants to 
States for maternal and child-health services, services for crippled 
children, and child-welfare services as authorized in title V, parts 1, 2, 
and 3, of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U, S. C, ch. T, subch. 
42 us'c7o"*7i2. V), $30,000,000: Provided, That any allotment to a State pursuant to 
704,714. 
' 
' section 502 (b) or 512 (b) of such Act shall not be included in comput-
ing for the purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of sections 504 and 514 
of such Act an amount expended or estimated to be expended by the 
State. 
Salaries and expenses. Office of the Commissioner: For expenses nec-
essary for the Office of the Commissioner of Social Security, $173,000, 
together with not to exceed $123,500 to be transferred from the Federal 
old-age and survivors insurance trust fund. 
Grants to States, next succeeding fiscal year: For making, after 
May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under titles I, 
42 use ch. 7. 
lY, V, X, and XIV, respectively, of the Social Security Act, as 
amended, for the first quarter of the next succeeding fiscal year, such 
sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expendi-
tures made thereunder for payments under each of such titles to be 
charged to the appropriation therefor for that fiscal year. 
In the administration of titles I, IV, V, X, and XIV, respectively, 
42 use ch. 7. 
of the Social Securicy Act, as amended, payments to a State under 
any of such titles for any quarter in the period beginning April 1 
of the prior year, and ending June 30 of the current year, may be 
made with respect to a State plan approved under such title prior to 
or during such period, but no such payment shall be made with respect 
to any plan for any quarter prior to the quarter in which such plan 
was submitted for approval. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
Salaries and expenses, Office of the Secretary: For expenses neces-
sary for the Office of the Secretary, $1,112,500, together with not to 
exceed $171,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and sur-
vivors insurance trust fund: Provided, That, except as may be other-
wise provided for herein, not more than $200,000 of the funds, includ-
ing trust funds, appropriated by this title may be used at the depart-
mental level under authority of section 601 of the Act of June 30,1932 
31 use 686. 
^47 Stat. 417), as amended, and section 7 of Reorganization Plan No. 
67 Stat. 632. 
1 of 1953 
note. 
Salaries and expenses, Office of Field Services: For expenses neces-
sary for the Office of Field Services, including not less than $850,000 
for the Division of Grant-in-Aid Audits, $1,800,000, together with not 
to exceed $350,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and 
survivors insurance trust fund. 
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445 
Salaries and expenses, Office of the General Counsel: For expenses 
necessary for the Office of the General Counsel, $350,000, together with 
not to exceed $22,500 to be transferred from the appropriation "Sal-
aries and expenses, certification and inspection services", and not to 
exceed $365,000 to be transferred from the Federal old-age and sur-
vivors insurance trust fund. 
Surplus property disposal: For expenses necessary for carrying 
out the provisions of subsections 203 (j) and (k) of the Federal Prop-
erty and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, relating 
to disposal of real and personal excess property for educational pur-
poses and protection of public health, $400,000. 
63 Stat. 386. 
40 u s e 484. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC, 202. Appropriations under this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for payment in advance for dues or fees 
for library membership in organizations whose publications are avail-
able to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general 
public. 
SEC. 203. Appropriations under this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of 
the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). 
SEC. 204. Appropriations under this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for travel expenses and not to exceed 
$90,000, of which $45,000 shall be available only to the National 
Institutes of Health, of such funds shall be available for expenses of 
attendance at meetings concerned with the functions or activities for 
which such appropriations are made. 
SEC. 205. None of the funds appropriated by this title to the Social 
Security Administration for grants in aid of State agencies to cover, 
in whole or in part, the cost of operation of said agencies including 
the salaries and expenses of officers and employees of said agencies, 
shall be withheld from the said agencies of any States which have 
established by legislative enactment and have in operation a merit 
system and classification and compensation plan covering the selection, 
tenure in office, and compensation of their employees, because of any 
disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection by the 
agencies of the said States, or the rates of pay of said officers or 
employees. 
SEC. 206. The Secretary is authorized to make such transfers of 
motor vehicles, between bureaus and offices, without transfer of funds, 
as may be required in carrying out the operations of the Department. 
This title may be cited as the "Department of Health, Education, and 
Welfare Appropriation Act, 1955". 
Library membet^ 
ship dues. 
Service c 
60 Stat. 810. 
Travel expenses. 
S t a t e agencies 
for grants in aid. 
Motor v e h i c l e 
transfers. 
Citation of title. 
TITLE III—NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National 
Labor Relations Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 141-167), and 
other laws, including expenses of attendance at meetings concerned 
with the work of the Board when specifically authorized by the Chair-
man or the General Counsel; and services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a) ; $8,400,000: Provided, 
That no part of this appropriation shall be available to organize or 
assist in organizing agricultural laborers or used in connection with 
investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining 
units composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in section 2 ( 3 ) 
61 Stat. 136. 
60 Stat. 810. 
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[68 S T A T . 
29 u s e 152. 
61 Stat. 137. 
29 u s e 203. 
eitation of title. 
60 Stat. 810. 
44 Stat. 582, 586. 
60 Stat. 810. 
of the Act of July 5,1935 (49 Stat. 450), and as amended by the Labor-
Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in section 3 (f) of the 
Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1060), and including in said definition 
employees engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, 
reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated on a mutual, 
nonprofit basis and at least 95 per centum of the water stored or 
supplied thereby is used for farming purposes. 
This title may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Board 
Appropriation Act, 1955" 
TITLE IV—NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National 
Mediation Board, including stenographic reporting services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), 
$425,500. 
Arbitration and emergency boards: For expenses necessary for 
arbitration boards established under section 7 of the Railway Labor 
Act, as amended (45 U. S. C. 157), and emergency boards appointed 
by the President pursuant to section 10 of said Act (45 U. S. C. 160), 
including stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $300,000. 
60 Stat. 810. 
45 u s e 153. 
eitation of title. 
60 Stat. 810. 
eitation of title. 
61 Stat. 152. 
60 Stat. 810. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Rail-
road Adjustment Board, including stenographic reporting services as 
authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), 
$495,000, of which not less than $175,000 shall be available for com-
pensation (at rates not in excess of $75 per diem) and expenses of 
referees appointed pursuant to section 3 of the Railway Labor Act, 
as amended. 
This title may be cited as the "National Mediation Board Appro-
priation Act, 1955". 
TITLE V—RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
Salaries and expenses, Railroad Retirement Board (trust fund): 
For expenses necessary for the Railroad Retirement Board, including 
not to exceed $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned 
with the work of the Board, when specifically authorized by the Board; 
and stenographic reporting services as authorized by section 15 of 
the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a) ; $6,108,000, to be derived 
from the railroad retirement account. 
This title may be cited as the "Railroad Retirement Board Appro-
priation Act, 1955". 
TITLE VI—FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION 
SERVICE 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Service to 
carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management Rela-
tions Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 171-180, 182), including expenses of the 
Labor-Management Panel as provided in section 205 of said Act; 
temporary employment of arbitrators, conciliators, and mediators on 
labor relations at rates not in excess of $75 per diem; expenses of 
attendance at meetings concerned with labor and industrial relations; 
and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U.S.C. 55a); $3,124,000. 
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447 
Boards of inquiry: To enable the Service to pay necessary expenses 
of boards of inquiry appointed bv the President pursuant to section 
206 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U. S. C. 176-
180, 182), including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act 
of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and rent in the District of Columbia, 
$10,000. 
This title may be cited as the "Federal Mediation and Conciliation 
Service Appropriation Act, 1955", 
61 Stat. 155. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Citation of title. 
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 701. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or who is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided^ 
That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima 
facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary 
to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Gov-
ernment of the United States, is not a member of an organization of 
Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States, or that such person does not advo-
cate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: 
Provided further^ That any person who engages in a strike against 
the Government of the United States, or who is a member of an 
organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike 
against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or 
who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 
of the Government of the United States by force or violence and 
accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,0(X) or imprisoned for 
not more than one year, or both: Provided further^ That the above 
penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any 
other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 702. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the 
Congress. 
SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay compensation of any employee engaged in personnel 
work in excess of the number that would be provided by a ratio of 
one such emploj^ee to one hundred and five, or a part thereof, full-
time, part-time, and intermittent employees of the agency concerned: 
Provided^ That for purposes of this section employees shall be con-
sidered as engaged in personnel work if they spend half time or more 
in personnel administration consisting of direction and administration 
of the personnel program; employment, placement, and separation; 
job evaluation and classification; employee relations and services; 
training; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-service 
examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording, and 
reporting. 
This Act may be cited as the "Departments of Labor, and Health, 
Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1955." 
Approved July 2, 1954. 
Strikes or over-
t h r o w of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
P u b l i c i t y or 
propaganda. 
Personnel work. 
Short title.