An Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce and related agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes
PL 84-604 (H.R.10899), enacted 06/20/1956

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Public Law 604 
CHAPTER 415 
June 20,1956 
[H. R. 10899] 
D e p a r t m e n t of 
Commerce and Re-
lated 
A g e n c i e s 
Appropriation Act, 
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63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
69 Stat. 226. 
52 Stat. 973. 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of Commerce and related agencies 
for tlie fiscal jear ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Department of Commerce and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30,1957, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPAKTMENT OF COMMERCE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the general ad-
ministration of the Department of Commerce, including teletype 
news service (not exceeding $1,000); $2,450,000. 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for collecting, com-
piling, and publisiiing current census statistics provided for by law; 
for general administration, including enumerators at rates to be fixed 
without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended; and 
purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; 
$7,475,000. 
Census of governments: For expenses necessary for taking, com-
piling, and publishing the 1957 census of governments as authorized 
by law, including personal services by contract or otherwise, at rates 
to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce without regard to the 
Classification Act of 1949, as amended; and additional compensation 
of Federal employees temporarily detailed for field work under this 
appropriation; $1,750,000, to remain available until June 30, 1959. 
National housing inventory: For expenses necessary for conducting 
a survey of housing, including personal services by contract or other-
wise at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce without regard 
to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended; and compensation of 
Federal employees temporarily detailed for field work under this 
appropriation; $1,000,000. 
1958 censuses of business, transportation, manufactures, and mineral 
industries: For expenses necessary to prepare for the 1958 censuses of 
business, transportation, manufactures, and mineral industries as 
authorized by law; $150,000, to remain available until December 31, 
1958. 
Censuses of business, manufactures, and mineral industries: Not to 
exceed $900,000 of the amounts heretofore appropriated under the 
head "Census of agriculture" may be transferred to the appropriation 
granted under this head in the Department of Commerce and Related 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956. 
CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION 
Operation and regulation: For necessary expenses of the Civil 
Aeronautics Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Civil 
Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 401), and other Acts 
incident to the enforcement of safety regulations, maintenance and 
operation of air-navigation and air-traffic control facilities, and dis-
posal of surplus airports and administering instruments of disposal; 
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planning, research, and administrative expenses for carrying out the 
provisions of the Federal Airport Act of May 13, 1946,' as amended, 
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including furnishing advisory services to States and other public and note, 
private agencies in connection with the construction or improvement 
of airports and landing areas; developmental work and service-test-
ing as tends to the creation of improved air-navigation facilities, in-
cluding landing areas, aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, appliances, 
personnel, and operation methods, and acquisition of sites for such 
activities by lease, or grant; purchase of not to exceed one hundred 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; hire of aircraft (not 
exceeding $370,000) ; operation and maintenance of not to exceed 
eighty-five aircraft; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; 
and purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; $126,804,000: Pro-
vided^ That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received 
from States, counties, municipalities, and other public authorities for 
expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of air-navigation 
facilities. 
Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For an additional amount 
for the acquisition, establishment, and improvement by contract or 
purchase and hire of air-navigation facilities, including the initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; the construction and 
furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and 
employees of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather 
Bureau stationed at remote localities not on foreign soil where such 
accommodations are not available; purchase of not to exceed five air-
craft for replacement only; the initial flight checking of air-navigation 
facilities and the transportation by air to and from and within the 
Territories of the United States of materials and equipment secured 
under this appropriation; $40,000,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
Grants-in-aid for airports (liquidation of contract authorization) : 
For liquidation of obligations incurred under authority granted in 
the Act of August 3, 1955 (69 Stat. 441), to enter into contracts, iio§,^foi,\lnV 
$30,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Maintenance and operation, Washington National Airport: For 
expenses incident to the care, operation, maintenance and protection 
of the Washington National Airport, including purchase of one pas-
senger motor vehicle for replacement only; purchase, cleaning, and 
repair of uniforms; and arms and ammunition; $1,500,000. 
Maintenance and operation of public airports. Territory of Alaska: 
For expenses necessary for the maintenance, improvement, and opera-
tion of public airports in the Territory of Alaska, as authorized by 
law (48 U. S. C. 485 c-h) ; including arms and ammunition; and pur- 
62 stat. 278. 
chase, repair, and cleaning of uniforms; $618,000. 
Air navigation development: For expenses necessary for planning 
and developing a national system of aids to air navigation and air 
traffic control common to military and civil air navigation, including 
research, experimental investigations, purchase and development, by 
contract or otherwise, of new types of air navigation aids (including 
plans, specifications, and drawings); hire of aircraft; acquisition of 
necessary sites by lease or grant; payments in advance under contracts 
for research or development work; and not to exceed $192,000 for 
administrative expenses; $1,500,000. 
CIVIL, AERONAUTICS BOARD 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aero-
nautics Board, including contract stenographic reporting services; 
employment of temporary guards on a contract or fee basis; salaries 
and traveling expenses of employees detailed to attend courses of 
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training conducted by the Government or industries serving aviation; 
purchase (not to exceed two for replacement only) of passenger 
motor vehicles; and hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of air-
craft; $4,625,000. 
Payments to air carriers: For payments to air carriers of so much 
of the compensation fixed and determined by the Civil Aeronautics 
Board under section 406 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as 
amended (49 U. S. C. 486). as is payable by the Civil Aeronautics 
4 9!rec486**note. Board pursuaut to Reorganization Plan No. 10 of 1953; $16,200,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the pro-
61 Stat. 787. 
yisious of the Act of August 6,1947 (33 U. S. C. 883a-883i), including 
purchase of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by the Act 
5use2131 note, of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114), as amended; lease of sites and 
the erection of temporary buildings for tide, magnetic or seismo-
logical observations; hire of aircraft; operation, maintenance, and 
repair of an airplane; extra compensation at not to exceed $15 per 
month to each member of the crew of a vessel when assigned duties 
as recorder or instrument observer, and at not to exceed $1 per day 
for each station to employees of other Federal agencies while making 
oceanographic observations or tending seismographs; pay, allowances, 
gratuities, transportation of dependents and household effects, and 
payment of funeral expenses, as authorized by law, for not to exceed 
185 commissioned officers on the active list; payments under the Uni-
37us<^37lnote. form Serviccs Contingency Option Act of 1953; and pay of commis-
sioned officers retired in accordance with law; $10,900,000, of which 
$446,000 shall be available for retirement pay of commissioned officers: 
Provided, That during the current fiscal year, this appropriation shall 
be reimbursed for press costs and costs of paper for charts published 
by the Coast and Geodetic Survey and furnished for the official use 
of the military departments of the Department of Defense. 
Construction of a surveying ship: For designing, constructing, 
equipping, and outfitting one surveying ship, as authorized by the Act 
of August 5,1955 (69 Stat. 537), $3,700,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
BUSINESS AND DEFENSE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Business and 
Defense Services Administration, including transportation and not 
to exceed $15 per diem in lieu of subsistence for persons serving with-
out compensation while away from their homes or regular places of 
business, $6,900,000. 
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BUREAU OP FOREIGN COMMERCE 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Bureau of 
Foreign Commerce, including the purchase of commercial and trade 
reports; $2,400,000. 
OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of 
Business Economics, $960,000. 
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MARITIME ACTIVITIES 
Ship construction: For payment of construction-differential sub-
sidy and cost of national-defense features incident to construction of 
ships for operation in foreign commerce (46 U. S. C. 1152, 1154), and 
the cost of national-defense features incident to construction of vessels 
for domestic operation (46 IT. S. C. 1159); for payment of construc-
tion-differential subsidy and cost of national-defense features incident 
to the reconstruction and reconditioning of ships under title V of the 
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. 1154); for recon-
ditioning and betterment of one ship in the national-defense reserve 
fleet; for acquisition of used ships pursuant to section 510 of the Mer-
chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. 1160), and the pay-
ment of cost of national-defense features incorporated in new tankers 
constructed to replace used tankers; and for research, development, and 
design expenses incident to new and advanced ship design, machinery, 
and equipment; $82,700,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided^ That transfers may be made to the appropriation for the 
current fiscal year for "Salaries and expenses" for administrative 
and warehouse expenses (not to exceed $1,115,000) and for reserve 
fleet expenses (not to exceed $500,000), and any such transfers shall 
be without regard to the limitations under that appropriation on the 
amounts available for such expenses: Provided further^ That appro-
priations granted herein shall be available to pay construction-differ-
ential subsidy granted by the Federal Maritime Board, pursuant to 
section 501 (c) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to aid 
in the reconstruction of any Mariner-class ships sold under the pro-
visions of title VII of the 1936 Act: Provided further, That all ship 
construction, reconditioning, and betterment of vessels appropriated 
for herein, shall be performed in shipyards in the continental United 
States: Provided further, That no funds contained in this Act may 
be used to commence construction, reconstruction, conversion, recon-
ditioning, or betterment of any vessel until the total Federal funds 
required to complete such work have been appropriated. 
Operating-differential subsidies: For the payment of obligations 
incurred for operating-differential subsidies granted on or after Jan-
uary 1, 1947, as authorized by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended, and in appropriations heretofore made to the United States 
Maritime Commission, $124,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended : Provided, That to the extent that the operating-differential 
subsidy accrual (computed on the basis of parity^ is represented on 
the operator's books by a contingent accounts receivable item against 
the United States as a partial or complete offset to the recapture 
accrual, the operator (1) shall be excused from making deposits in 
the special reserve fund, and (2) as to the amount of such earnings 
the deposit of which is so excused shall be entitled to the same tax 
treatment as though it had been deposited in said special reserve fund. 
To the extent that any amount paid to the operator by the United 
States reduces the balance in the operator's contingent receivable 
account against the United States, such amount shall forthwith be 
deposited in the special reserve fund of the operator: 
Provided 
fy/rther, That no contracts shall be executed during the current fiscal 
year by the Federal Maritime Board which will obligate the Govern-
ment to pay operating differential subsidy on more than two thousand 
and forty voyages in any one calendar ^ear, including voyages 
covered by contracts in effect at the beginning of the current fiscal 
year. 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for carrying into 
effect the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and other laws administered 
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1998. 
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S t a t . 19913, 
Stat. 2000. 
53 Stat. 1183. 
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1204. 
Stat. 1995. 
u s e 1151. 
Stat. 2008. 
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Stat. 1985. 
u s e ch. 27. 
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u s e ch. 27. 
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by the Federal Maritime Board and the Maritime Administration, 
$15,350,000, within limitations as follows: 
Administrative expenses, including not to exceed $1,125 for enter-
tainment of officials of other countries when specifically authorized 
by the Maritime Administrator and purchase of not to exceed four 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement onlj, $6,500,000; 
Maintenance of shipyard and reserve training facilities and opera-
tion of warehouses, $1,600,000; 
Reserve fleet expenses, $7,250,000. 
Maritime training: For training cadets as officers of the merchant 
marine at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, 
including pay and allowances for personnel of the United States 
Maritime Service as authorized by law (46 U. S. C. 1126, 63 Stat. 
f3s^au^ii82. ^
^ 802, 64 Stat. 794, and 66 Stat. 79); not to exceed $2,500 for contin-
seq. 
gencies for the Superintendent, United States Merchant Marine 
Academy, to be expended in his discretion; and not to exceed $35,000 
for transfer to applicable appropriations of the Public Health Serv-
ice for services rendered the Maritime Administration; $2,200,000, 
including uniform and textbook allowances for cadet midshipmen, 
at an average yearly cost of not to exceed $200 per cadet: 
Provided, 
That except as herein provided for uniform and textbook allowances 
this appropriation shall not be used for compensation or allowances 
for cadets. 
State marine schools: To reimburse the State of 
California, 
$47,500; the State of Maine, $47,500; the State of Massachusetts, 
$47,500; and the State of New^ York, $47,500; for expenses incurred 
in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as 
provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, 
and so forth, approved March 4, 1911, as amended (34 U. S. C. 1121-
36 Stat. 1353. 
1123); $149,800 for the maintenance and repair of vessels loaned by 
the United States to the said States for use in connection with such 
State marine schools; and $320,200 for allowances for uniforms, text-
books, and subsistence of cadets at State marine schools, to be paid 
in accordance with regulations established pursuant to law (46 U. S. C. 
53 Stat. 1182. 
^^^Q ( b ) ) ; $660,000. 
Repair of reserve fleet vessels (liquidation of contract authoriza-
tion) : Advances may be made from the appropriation granted under 
this head in the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
69 Stat. 239. 
Appropriation Act, 1956, to the appropriation for the current fiscal 
year for "Salaries and expenses, maritime activities", for adminis-
trative expenses (not to exceed $150,000) and for reserve fleet expenses 
(in such amounts as may be required), and such advances shall be in 
addition to amounts otherwise made available for such expenses. 
War Shipping Administration liquidation: The unexpended bal-
ance of the appropriation to the Secretary of the Treasury in the 
61 Stat. 697. 
Secoud Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1948, for liquidation of 
obligations approved by the General Accounting Office as properly 
incurred against funds of the War Shipping Administration prior to 
January 1,1947, is hereby continued available during the current fiscal 
year, and shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred 
against the working fund titled: "Working fund, Commerce, War 
Shipping Administration functions, December 31, 1946". 
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General provisions—Maritime activities: No additional vessels shall 
be allocated under charter, nor shall any vessel be continued under 
charter by reason of any extension of chartering authority beyond 
June 30, 1949, unless the charterer shall agree that the Maritime 
Administration shall have no obligation upon redelivery to accept or 
pay for consumable stores, bunkers and slop-chest items, except with 
respect to such minimum amounts of bunkers as the Maritime Admin-
sions. 
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istration considers advisable to be retained on the vessel and that prior 
to such redelivery all consumable stores, slop-chest items, and bunkers 
over and above such minimums shall be removed from the vessel by 
the charterer at his own expense. 
No money made available to the Department of Commerce, for 
maritime activities, by this or any other Act shall be used in payment 
for a vessel the title to which is acquired by the Government either by 
requisition or purchase, or the use of which is taken either by requisi-
tion or agreement, or which is insured by the Government and lost 
while so insured, unless the price or hire to be paid therefor (except in 
^^^^ ^^^ ^ 
cases where section 802 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, 1255. 
is applicable) is computed in accordance with subsection 902 (a) of i2'42.^^^ 1212, 
said Act, as that subsection is interpreted by the General Accounting 
Office. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Maritime ic^s^ind^r^^^rsJ" 
Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services and 
make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or 
occupancy involving Government property under control of the 
Maritime Administration, and payments received by the Maritime 
Administration for utilities, services, and repairs so furnished or 
made shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost 
thereof: Provided., That rental payments under any such lease, con-
tract, or occupancy on account of items other than such utilities, 
services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 
No obligations shall be incurred during tlie current fiscal year from 
the construction fund established by the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 
^g ^g^ llfl\ 
or otherwise, in excess of the appropriations and limitations contained 
in this Act, or in any prior appropriation Act, and all receipts which 
otherwise would be deposited to the credit of said fund shall be 
covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
Vessel operations revolving fund: Hereafter the vessel operations 
revolving fund, created by the Third Supplemental Appropriation 
Act, 1951, shall be available for necessary expenses incurred, in con- 
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nection with protection, preservation, maintenance, acquisition, or 
use of vessels involved in mortgage-foreclosure or forfeiture proceed-
ings instituted by the United States, including payment of prior claims 
and liens, expenses of sale, or other charges incident thereto; for 
necessary expenses incident to the redelivery and lay-up, in the United 
States, of ships now chartered under agreements which do not call 
for their return to the United States; for activation, repair and 
deactivation of merchant ships chartered for limited emergency pur-
poses during the fiscal year 1957 under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 
of Commerce; and for payment of expenses of custody and husbanding 
of Government-owned ships other than those within reserve fleets: 
Provided, That not to exceed $5,000,000 of the funds of the vessel 
operations revolving fund may be used during the fiscal year 1957 for 
the purposes set forth in this paragraph. 
Inland Waterways Corporation (administered under the super-
vision and direction of the Secretary of Commerce) : Not to exceed 
$14,000 shall be available for administrative expenses to be deter-
mined in the manner set forth under the title "General expenses" in 
the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947). 
PATENT OFFICE 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Patent Office, 
including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 
42 Stat. 217. 
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60 Stat. 810. 
i94g (5 jj g Q 55^^)^ ^^ ^.^^^g f^j. individuals not to exceed $75 per 
diem (not to exceed $25,000); and defense of suits instituted against 
the Commissioner of Patents; $17,000,000. 
BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS 
General administrative expenses: Necessary expenses of adminis-
tration, including advertising (including advertising in the city of 
Washington for work to be performed in areas adjacent thereto), 
purchase of seventy-five passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only, and the maintenance and repairs of experimental highways, 
shall be paid, in accordance with law, from appropriations available 
to the Bureau of Public Roads. 
Of the total amount available from appropriations of the Bureau 
of Public Roads for general administrative expenses, pursuant to the 
provisions of section 21 of the Act of November 9, 1921, as amended 
(23 IT. S. C. 21), $100,000 shall be available for all necessary expenses 
to enable the President to utilize the services of the Bureau of Public 
Roads in fulfilling the obligations of the United States under the 
Convention on the Pan-American Highway Between the United 
States and Other American Republics (51 Stat. 152), cooperation with 
several governments, members of the Pan American Union, in con-
nection with the survey and construction of the Inter-American High-
way, and for performing engineering service in Pan-American coun-
tries for and upon the request of any agency or governmental corpo-
ration of the United States. 
Federal-aid highways: For carrying out the provisions of the Act 
of July 11,1916, as amended and supplemented (23 U. S. C. 1-22, 24-
23 use 9a note. 105,107-117), to remain available until expended, $775,000,000, which 
sum is composed of $186,500,000, the balance of the amount authorized 
to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1955, $585,500,000, a part of 
the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1956, and 
$30,401, $14,097, $1,034,766, and $985,204, the latter sums being for 
reimbursement of the sums expended for the repair or reconstruction 
of highways and bridges which have been damaged or destroyed by 
floods, hurricanes, or landslides, as provided by section 4 of the Act 
approved June 8, 1938, section 7 of the Act approved July 13, 1943, 
64 Stat. 789. 
j^^d sectiou 9 of the Act approved September 7, 1950, as amended 
(23 U. S. C. 13a and 13b), and section 7 of the Act approved June 
66 Stat. 161. 
25, 1952, and $935,532 for reimbursement of the sums expended for 
the design and construction of highway bridges upon and across dams 
23 use 64-69. 
^^ accordauce with the Act of July 29, 1946 (60 Stat. 709). 
Forest highways: For expenses, not otherwise provided for, neces-
sary for carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal 
sta?. 1520.^^*' *^ Highway Act of November 9,1921, as amended (23 U. S. C. 23, 23a), 
to remain available until expended, $23,000,000, which sum is com-
posed of $16,750,000, the remainder of the amount authorized to be 
appropriated for the fiscal year 1956, and $6,250,000, a part of the 
amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1957: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, 
purchase, construction, or alteration of buildings and sites necessary 
for the storage and repair of equipment and supplies used for road 
construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such item under 
this authorization shall not exceed $15,000. 
Public lands highways (liquidation of contract authorization) : 
For payment of obligations incurred pursuant to the contract authori-
zation granted by section 6 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954 
(68 Stat. 73), to remain available until expended, $1,000,000, which 
sum is composed of $625,000, the remainder of the amount authorized 
52 Stat. 634. 
57 Stat. 561. 
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for fiscal year 1956, and $375,000, a part of the amount authorized for 
fiscal year 1957. 
General provisions—Bureau of Public Roads: None of the money 
appropriated for the work of the Bureau of Public Roads during the 
current fiscal year shall be paid to any State on account of any project 
on which convict labor shall be employed, but this provision shall 
not apply to labor performed by convicts on parole or probation. 
During the current fiscal year authorized engineering or other 
services m connection with the survey, construction, and maintenance, 
or improvement of roads may be performed for other Government 
agencies, cooperating foreign 
countries, and State 
cooperating 
agencies, and reimbursement for such services (which may include 
depreciation on engineering and road-building equipment used) shall 
be credited to the appropriation concerned. 
During the current fiscal year appropriations for the work of the 
Bureau of Public Roads shall be available for expenses of warehouse 
maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, 
materials, and equipment for distribution to projects under the super-
vision of the Bureau of Public Roads, or for sale or distribution 
to other Government activities, cooperating foreign countries, and 
State cooperating agencies, and the cost of such supplies and materials 
or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation 
and handling) may be reimbursed to current applicable appropria-
tions. 
Appropriations to the Bureau of Public Roads may be used in 
emergency for medical supplies and services and other assistance 
necessary for the immediate relief of employees engaged on hazardous 
work under that Bureau, and for temporary services as authorized 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at 
rates for individuals not in excess of $100 per diem. 
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS 
Expenses: For expenses necessary in performing the functions au-
thorized by the Act of March 3, 1901, as amended (15 U. S. C. 271-
278c), including general administration; operation, maintenance, 
alteration, and protection of grounds and facilities; and improvement 
and construction of temporary or special facilities as authorized by 
section 2 of the Act of July 21, 1950 (15 U. S. C. 286); $8,750,000: 
Provided^ That during the current fiscal year the maximum base rate 
of compensation for employees appointed pursuant to the Act of July 
21, 1950 (15 U. S. C. 285), shall be equivalent to the entrance rate 
ofGS-12. 
Plant and equipment: For construction of a pilot electronic data-
processing device to be used in the performance of functions author-
ized by the Act of March 3,1901, as amended (15 U. S. C. 27l-278c); 
repair of mechanical facilities; and expenses incurred, as authorized 
by section 2 of the Act of July 21, 1950 (15 U. S. C. 286), in the 
construction or improvement of buildings, grounds, and other facili-
ties, and, without regard to the cost limitation contained in that Act, 
the construction of field station buildings at Anchorage, Alaska, and 
at Maui, Territory of Hawaii; and purchase of six passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; $450,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
Construction of facilities: For acquisition of necessary land and to 
initiate the design of the facilities to be constructed thereon for the 
National Bureau of Standards outside of the District of Columbia 
to remain available until expended, $930,000, to be transferred to the 
General Services Administration. 
General p r o v i -
sions. 
Convict labor. 
Agency coopera-
tion, etc. 
Warehouse main-
tenance, etc. 
Emergency serv^ 
ices. 
60 Stat. 810. 
31 Stat. 1449. 
64 Stat. 371. 
64 Stat. 370. 
31 Stat. 1449. 
64 Stat. 371. 
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WEATHER BUREAU 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Weather 
Bureau, including maintenance and operation of aircraft; purchase 
of three passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; not to exceed 
$25,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 
60 Stat. 810. 
2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and not to exceed $10,000 for maintenance 
of a printing office in the city of Washington, as authorized by law; 
$35,400,000: Provided^ That during the current fiscal year, the maxi-
mum amount authorized under section 3 (a) of the Act of June 2, 
62 Stat. 287. 
^943 (15 xj. S. C. 327), for extra compensation to employees of other 
Government agencies for taking and transmitting meteorological ob-
servations, shall be $5 per day; and the maximum base rate of pay 
authorized under section 3 (b) of said Act, for employees conducting 
meteorological investigations in the Arctic region, shall be $6,500 per 
annum, except that not more than five of such employees at any one 
time may receive a base rate of $9,000 per annum, and such employees 
5 uicfVonnote. ^^^^J ^e appointed without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as 
amended. 
Establishment of meteorological facilities: For an 
additional 
amount for the acquisition, establishment, and relocation of meteor-
ological facilities and related equipment, including the alteration and 
modernization of existing facilities; $2,500,000, to remain available 
until June 30, 1959. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year applicable appropriations 
and funds available to the Department of Commerce shall be available 
for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (5 U. S. C. 
63 Stat. 907. 
596a), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by said Act. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations in this title available for salaries and 
expenses shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings of 
organizations concerned with the activities for which the appropria-
tions are made; hire of passenger motor vehicles; services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but, 
unless otherwise specified, at rates for individuals not to exceed $50 
per diem; and uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the 
5use 2131 note. Act of September 1,1954 (68 Stat. 1114), as amended. 
TITLE II—THE PANAMA CANAL 
CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT 
Operating expenses: For operating expenses necessary for the Canal 
Zone Government, including operation of the Postal Service of the 
Canal Zone; hire of passenger motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat, 
susc2131 note. 1114), as amended; expenses incident to conducting hearings on the 
Isthmus; expenses of attendance at meetings, when authorized by the 
Governor of the Canal Zone, of organizations concerned with activities 
pertaining to the Canal Zone Government; expenses of special train-
ing of employees of the Canal Zone Government as authorized by law 
(63 Stat. 602) ; contingencies of the Governor; residence for the Gov-
ernor ; medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and 
support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including 
expenses of their deportation when practicable; and payments of not 
to exceed $50 in any one case to persons within the Government service 
who shall furnish blood for transfusions; $15,410,000. 
60 Stat. 810. 
5 use 2131 note. 
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PUBLIC LAW 604-JUNE 20, 1956 
Capital outlay: The appropriation heretofore granted under this 
head shall be available during the current fiscal year for the purchase 
of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehicles for replacement only. 
PANAMA CANAL COMPANY 
The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to it and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and 
commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by 
section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, 
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as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the 
Budget for the fiscal year 1957 for such corporation, except as here-
inafter provided: 
Not to exceed $3,679,000 of the funds available to the Panama Canal 
Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for general 
and administrative expenses of the Company, which shall be computed 
on an accrual basis: Provided, That as used herein, the term "general 
and administrative expenses" shall not be construed to include expenses 
otherwise classified in the preceding fiscal year: Provided 
further, 
That funds available for operating expenses shall be available for the 
purchase of not to exceed eighteen passenger motor vehicles for re-
placement only, and for uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 
by the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114), as amended. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THE PANAMA (^ANAL 
SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act qufr'^menu.*"* '*' 
shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employ-
ment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services 
rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, tech-
nical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless 
such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the 
Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding 
the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409) 
limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of 
the United States from and after the date of approval of said Act, 
citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at 
no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the 
above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United 
States so employed, if United States citizens are available in conti-
nental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this 
Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall 
have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service 
on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, 
technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, 
the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, 
experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama 
and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, admin-
istrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under 
the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than 
forty hours per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates 
of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental 
United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply 
only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administra-
tive, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly 
or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by 
any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part 
by the United States Government: Provided further, That the Presi-
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[70 STAT. 
dent may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance 
with this section if he should deem such course to be in the public 
interest. 
SEC. 203. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
60 Stat. 810. 
(5 U. S. C. 55a), in an amount not exceeding $15,000: Provided^ That 
the rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem. 
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gj;^. 204. The Governor of the Canal Zone and the President of the 
Panama Canal Company, in computing allowances for the cost of 
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travel on home leave for persons who elect at their expense to take 
other than the lowest first-class travel to the United States, shall take 
into account as the cost to the United States the actual cost, as computed 
by the General Accounting Office, of travel by United States owned 
and operated vessels rather than a reduced fare rate which is available 
for such employees when traveling on their own account. 
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TITLE III—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON WEATHER CONTROL 
Salaries and expenses: The unobligated balance of the appropri-
ation granted under this head for the fiscal year 1956 shall remain 
available until July 30, 1956, for necessary expenses of the Advisory 
Committee on Weather Control, established by the Act of August 13, 
fin «?S^ain"**** 1^^^ (^'^ Stat. 559), including services as authorized by section 15 of 
the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 65a). 
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SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and 
borrowing authority available to such Corporation, and in accord with 
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
31 u*sc 849* 
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the programs set forth in the budget for the fiscal year 1957 for 
such Corporation, except as hereinafter provided: 
Not to exceed $325,000 shall be available for administrative expenses 
which shall be computed on an accrual basis, including not to exceed 
$1,500 for official entertainment expenses, to be expended upon the 
approval or authority of the Administrator: Provided^ That said 
funds shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of 
60 Stat. 810. 
ti^e ^ct of August 2, 1^46 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals 
not to exceed $100 per day: Provided further^ That the Corporation's 
funds shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed four pas-
senger motor vehicles (two for replacement only). 
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, not otherwise pro-
vided for, of the Small Business Administration, including expenses 
of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appro-
priation and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $1,900,000; and in addi-
tion there may be transferred to this appropriation not to exceed 
$4,634,000 from the Revolving Fund, Small Business Administration, 
and not to exceed $500,000 from the fund for Liquidation of Recon-
struction Finance Corporation Disaster Loans, Small Business Admin-
istration, for administrative expenses in connection with activities 
financed under said funds: Provided^ That the amount authorized for 
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transfer from the Revolving Fund, Small Business Administration, 
may be increased, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, by 
such amount as may be required to finance administrative expenses 
incurred in the making of disaster loans. 
Revolving Fund: For additional capital for the Revolving Fund 
authorized oy the Small Business Act of 1953, as amended, to be 
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available without fiscal year limitation, $50,000,000. 
TARIFF COMMISSION 
Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Tariff Com-
mission, including subscriptions to newspapers (not to exceed $200), 
not to exceed $20,000 for exj)enses of travel, and contract stenographic 
reporting services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 
1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $1,550,000: Provided, That no part of this 
so stat. sio. 
appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the 
Tariff Commission who shall hereafter participate in any proceedings 
under sections 336, 337, and 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, wherein he 
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or any member of his family has any special, direct, and pecuniary 1338. 
interest, or in which he has acted as attorney or special representative: 
Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall 
be used for making any special study, investigation or report at the 
request of any other agency of the executive branch of the Govern-
ment unless reimbursement is made for the cost thereof: And pro'vided 
further, That that part of the foregoing appropriation which is for 
expenses of travel shall be available, when specifically authorized by 
the Chairman of the Tariff Commission, for expenses of attendance at 
meetings of organizations concerned with the functions and activities 
of the said Commission. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall pr^agiijdi*^ "' 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not heretofore author-
ized bv the Congress. 
SEC^ 402. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall te^i aTs"°cotfe* 
be used to pay any expenses incident to or in connection with partici- ence. 
l^ation in the International Materials Conference. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Commerce and Related 
^^°*^ ""*• 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1957". 
^Approved June 20, 1956. 
Public Law 605 
CHAPTER 420 
AN ACT 
^^^ 21, 1956 
To continue the effectiveness of tlie Act of July 17, l!jr»;i (67 Stat. 177), as 
[H. R. 8709] 
ameiiiled. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the provisions 
Armed Forces, 
of the Act of July 17,1953 (67 Stat. 177), as amended, shall remain in 
tl^st^s-^^ 
effect until six months after the termination of the national emergency 117I " ^ ^ ^^^' 
proclaimed by the President on December 16, 1950, or until such date 
as may be specified by a concurrent resolution of the Congress, or until 
July 1,1957, whichever is earlier. 
Approved June 21, 1956.