An Act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-136 (H.R.3790), enacted 08/31/1951

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Informational and 
editorial functions. 
Nonapplicability. 
Short title. 
ambulance), unless such appropriation is specifically authorized to be 
used for paying the compensation of employees performing such 
duties. 
SEC. 412. No part of the money appropriated for the Department of 
Agriculture by this Act or made available for expenditure by any cor-
poration by this Act which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount 
required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates 
for personal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the 
fiscal year 1952 contemplated would be employed by the Department 
of Agriculture or by such corporation, respectively, during such 
fiscal year in the performance of— 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an informa-
tion specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications 
and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, 
photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion-picture ex-
pert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons per-
forming the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, 
editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public informa-
tion publications or releases, radio or television scripts, maga-
zine articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2) : Provided, That this section shall 
not apply to personnel engaged in the preparation and distribution 
of technical agricultural publications and farmers bulletins, and the 
Agriculture Yearbook, the reporting and dissemination of the re-
sults of research and investigations, the preparation and broadcast-
ing of the "Farm and Home Hour" and similar radio programs, and 
other work required to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the 
Department imposed by law other than work intended primarily for 
press, radio and television services, and popular publications. 
SEC. 413. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture 
Appropriation Act, 1952". 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
Public Law 136 
CHAPTER 375 
AN ACT 
August 31, 1951 
[H. R. 3790] 
Making appropriations for ttie Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
Interior Department of America in Congress assembled, 
Appropriation Act, 
19.52. 
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF T H E INTERIOR 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the 
Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, namely: 
OFFICE OF T H E SECRETARY 
49 Stat. 30. 
ENFORCEMENT OF CONNALLY HOT OIL ACT 
For expenses necessary for controlling the interstate shipment of 
contraband oil as required by law (15 U. S. C. 715), including purchase 
of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, 
$158,670, of which not to exceed $137,970 shall be available for per-
sonal services. 
58 Stat. 890. 
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CONSTRUCTION, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, 
and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses connected 
therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood 
Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern 
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power area, to remain available until expended, $318,500. 
The unobligated portion of the $1,850,000 appropriation contained 
in chapter V of the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 
(Public Law 911, Eighty-first Congress), under the heading "Depart-
ment of the Interior, Southeastern Power Administration, Construc-
tion", is hereby rescinded and shall be carried to the surplus fund and 
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covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy 
pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 
1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southeastern power area, 
$200,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations of the Southeastern Power Administration shall 
be available for purchase of not to exceed four passenger motor 
vehicles. 
Appropriations made herein to the Southeastern Power 
Administration shall be available in one fund, except that the appro-
priation herein made for operation and maintenance shall be available 
only for the service of the current fiscal year. 
CONTINUING F U N D , SOUTHEASTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
All receipts from the transmission and sale of electric power and 
energy under the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act 
of December 22, 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), generated or purchased in 
the southeastern power area, shall be covered into the Treasury of 
the United States as miscellaneous receipts, except that the Treasury 
shall set up and maintain from such receipts a continuing fund of 
$50,000, and said fund shall be placed to the credit of the Secretary, 
and shall be subject to check by him to defray emergency expenses 
necessary to insure continuity of electric service and continuous opera-
tion of Government facilities in said area: Provided, That the para-
graph under the heading "Office of the Secretary, Continuing Fund, 
Power Transmission Facilities", in the Interior Department Appro-
priation Act, 1950 (Public Law 350, Eighty-first Congress), is hereby 
f^u.^'s. c!^'§825s-i. 
amended by adding at the end thereof, before the final period ": Pro-
vided, That expenditures from this fund to cover such costs in con-
nection with the purchase of electric power and energy and rentals 
for the use of facilities are to be made only in such amounts as may 
be approved annually in appropriation Acts and for the fiscal year 
1952 such expenditures may be made not in excess of $250,000". 
CONSTRUCTION, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, 
and appurtenant facilities, and for administrative expenses connected 
therewith, in carrying out the provisions of section 5 of the Flood 
Control Act of 1944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern 
^ stat. 89o. 
power area, to remain available until expended, $3,375,000, of which 
not to exceed $586,800 shall be available for personal services, and of 
which not to exceed $600,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred 
pursuant to authority previously granted. 
58 Stat. 890. 
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of power 
transmission facilities and of marketing electric power and energy 
pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 
58 Stat. 890. 
^944 (16 U. S. C. 825s), as applied to the southwestern power area, 
$1,255,712, of which not to exceed $900,712 shall be available for 
personal services. 
TRANSFER OP CERTAIN FACILITIES, DENISON DAM PROJECT 
The jurisdiction and control of the Denison-Payne 132-kilovolt 
transmission line is hereby vested in the Secretary of the Interior, 
and the interdepartmental accounts shall be adjusted accordingly 
without transfer of funds. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations of the Southwestern Power Administration shall be 
available for purchase of not to exceed eight passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only. 
Appropriations made herein to the South-
western Power Administration shall be available in one fund, except 
that the appropriation herein made for operation and maintenance 
shall be available only for the service of the current fiscal year. 
COMMISSION OF F I N E AKTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission 
3
6 Stat. 371. 
^f Yijie Arts (40 U. S. C. 104), including payment of actual traveling 
expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending 
meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within 
or outside the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers 
approved by the Commission, $20,000. 
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction and acquisition of transmission lines, substations, 
and appurtenant facilities, as authorized by law, to remain available 
until expended, $67,500,000, of which not to exceed $8,387,470 shall 
be available for personal services, except force account personal serv-
ices, and of which not to exceed $21,000,000 is for liquidation of obli-
gations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of the Bonne-
ville transmission system and of marketing electric power and energy, 
$5,368,439, of which not to exceed $3,983,862 shall be available for 
personal services. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations of the Bonneville Power Administration shall be 
available to carry out all the duties imposed upon the Administrator 
pursuant to law, including not to exceed $40,000 for services as author-
6
0 Stat. 810. 
j2ed by Section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), includ-
ing such services at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals; 
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purchase of not to exceed twelve passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only; and purchase (not to exceed two) of aircraft. 
Appropria-
tions made herein to the Bonneville Power Administration shall be 
available in one fund, except that the appropriation herein made for 
operation and maintenance shall be available only for the service of 
the current fiscal year. 
Not to exceed 12 per centum of the appropriation for construction 
herein made for the Bonneville Power Administration shall be avail-
able for construction work by force account or on a hired-labor basis, 
except in case of emergencies, local in character, so declared by the 
Bonneville Power Administrator. 
Availability of con-
struction appropria-
tions. 
BUKEAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
MANAGEMENT OF LANDS AND RESOURCES 
For expenses necessary for protection, use, improvement, develop-
ment, disposal, cadastral surveying, classification, and performance of 
other functions, as authorized by law, in the management of lands 
and their resources under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
Management, $7,722,605, of which not to exceed $4,864,096 shall be 
available for personal services: Provided^ That this appropriation may 
be expended on a reimbursable basis for surveys of lands other than 
those under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. 
Survey of lands. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of access roads on the revested Oregon and 
California Eailroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Koad grant 
lands; acquisition of rights-of-way and of existing connecting roads 
adjacent to such lands; to remain available until expended, $700,000, 
of which not to exceed $45,000 shall be available for personal services: 
Provided, That the amount appropriated herein for road construction 
shall be transferred to the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of 
Commerce. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management shall be avail-
able for purchase of not to exceed twenty-nine passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only; and alteration and maintenance of necessary 
buildings and appurtenant facilities to which the United States has 
title: Provided, That of appropriations herein made for the Bureau 
of Land Management expenditures in connection with the revested 
Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos^Bay Wagon 
Road grant lands shall be reimbursed from the 25 per centum referred, 
to in section C, title II, of the Act approved August 28, 1937, of the 
special fund designated the "Oregon and California Land Grant 
Fund" and section 4 of the Act approved May 24, 1939, of the special 
fund designated the "Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Fund". 
Reimbursements. 
50 Stat. 876. 
.
W Stat. 754. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improve-
ments pursuant to the provisions of sections 3 and 10 of the Act of June 
28, 1934, as amended (43 U. S. C. 315), sums equal to the aggregate 
of all moneys received, during the current fiscal year, as range im-
provement fees under section 3 of said Act and of 25 per centum of 
all moneys received, during the current fiscal year, under section 15 
of said Act, to remain available until expended. 
48 
Stat. 1270. 
43 
U. S. 
C. 
§ 315m. 
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PAYMENTS TO STATES (PROCEEDS OF SALES) 
For payment to the several States of 5 per centum of the net pro-
ceeds of sales of public lands and materials lying within their limits, 
for the purpose of education or of making public roads and im-
provements, sums equal to the aggregate of all moneys received in 
accordance with section 4 of the Act of June 26, 1934 (31 U. S. C. 
48 Stat. 1227. 
725c), duHug the current and succeeding fiscal years, and includ-
ing in the fiscal year 1952 the unappropriated balance of receipts of 
prior fiscal years, to remain available until expended. 
PAYMENT TO OKLAHOMA 
(ROYALTIES) 
For payment to the State of Oklahoma in lieu of all State and local 
taxes upon tribal funds accruing under the provisions of the joint 
resolution of June 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 740), to be expended by the State 
in the same manner as if received under section 35 of the Act ap-
4
1 stai.450. 
proved February 25, 1920 (30 U. S. C. 191), sums equal to 371/2 per 
centum of the royalties received during the current and each suc-
ceeding fiscal year, from the south half of Red River in Oklahoma 
under the provisions of said joint resolution of June 12, 1926, to 
remain available until expended. 
LEASING o r GRAZING LANDS 
52 Stat. 103.3. 
48 Stat. 127.3. 
For leasing State, county, or privately owned lands in accordance 
with the provisions of the Act of June 23, 1938 (43 U. S. C. 315m-l), 
sums equal to the aggregate of all moneys received during the cur-
rent and each succeeding fiscal year, in accordance with the Act 
of June 23, 1938 (43 U. S. C. 315m-4), to remain available until 
expended. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES (GRAZING FEES) 
Sums not in excess of 33i/^ per centum of all grazing fees re-
ceived during the current and each succeeding fiscal year from each 
grazing district on Indian lands ceded to the United States for dis-
position under the public-land laws, to remain available until ex-
pended for payment to the State in which said lands are situated, in 
accordance w^ith the provisions of section 11 of the Act of June 28, 
1934, as amended (43 U. S. C. 315j). 
BUREAU OF INDIAN A F F A I R S 
HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE SERVICES 
For expenses necessary to provide health, education, and welfare 
services for Indians, either directly or in cooperation with States and 
other organizations, including payment (in advance or from date of 
admission) of care, tuition, assistance, and other expenses of Indians 
in boarding homes, institutions, or schools; grants and other assist-
ance to needy Indians; maintenance of law and order, and payment 
of rewards for information or evidence concerning violations of law 
on Indian reservations or lands; and operation of Indian arts and 
crafts shops and museums; $41,824,750, of which not to exceed 
$23,699,661 shall be available for personal services. 
RESOURCES 
MANAGEMENT 
For expenses necessary for management, development, improve-
ment, and protection of resources and appurtenant facilities under 
the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, including payment 
49 Stat. 891. 
Restrictions. 
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of irrigation assessments and charges; acquisition of water rights; 
conducting agricultural experiments and demonstrations; furnishing 
plants or seed to Indians; advances for Indian industrial and business 
enterprises; payment of expenses of Indian fairs, including premiums 
for exhibits; and development of Indian arts and crafts as authorized 
by law (25 U. S. C. 305), including expenses of exhibits; $10,921,360, 
of which not to exceed $6,843,485 shall be available for personal 
services. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, major repair, and improvement of irrigation and 
power systems, buildings, utilities, roads and trails, and other facil-
ities ; acquisition of lands and interests in lands; preparation of lands 
for farming; and architectural and engineering services by contract; 
to remain available until expended, $10,000,000, of which not to exceed 
$2,500,000 shall be available for personal services, and of which not 
to exceed $3,125,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant 
to authority previously granted: Provided^ That no part of the sum 
herein appropriated shall be used for the acquisition of land within 
the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, South 
Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming outside of the boundaries of existing 
Indian reservations: Provided further^ That no part of this appro-
priation shall be used for the acquisition of land or water rights 
within the States of Nevada, Oregon, and Washington either inside 
or outside the boundaries of existing reservations: Provided 
further^ 
That no part of this appropriation shall be used for construction or 
repair of the Tongue River Indian Reservation electric line, Montana, 
but the Secretary is hereby authorized to enter into a reimbursable 
contract with the Tongue River Electric Cooperative, Incorporated, 
Montana, with respect to maintenance, operation, and subsequent 
transfer of ownership of said line and the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
may accept payment for such line in the form of credit on electric bills. 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the general administration of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs, including such expenses in field offices, $3,300,747, 
of which not to exceed $2,693,281 shall be available for personal 
services. 
REVOLVING F U N D FOR LOANS 
For an additional amount for loans as authorized by sections 10 and 
11 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C 470, 471), as amended 
^sstat.Qse. 
and supplemented, and section 1 of the Act of April 19,1950 (Public 
Law 474), $800,000. 
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4 stat. 44. 
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2.5U.S.C. §§631-640. 
PAYMENT TO CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS OF INDIANS, OKLAHOMA 
For an additional amount for "Payment to Choctaw and Chickasaw 
Nations of Indians, Oklahoma", for defraying the expenses of making 
per capita payments authorized by the Acts of June 28, 1944 (58 
Stat. 483), and June 24, 1948 (Public Law 754, Eightieth Congress), 
$22,655, of which not to exceed $21,105 shall be available for personal 
services. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (except the 
revolving fund for loans) shall be available for purchase of not to 
exceed one hundred and sixty passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only, which may be used for the transportation of Indians; 
62 Stat. 596. 
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S T A T . 
60 Stat. 810. 
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urchase of ice for official use of employees; services as authorized 
y section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 tj. S. C. 55a), including 
not to exceed $5,000 for expenditure at rates for individuals not in 
excess of $50 per diem on irrigation and power matters, when author-
ized by the Secretary; and expenses required by continuing or perma-
nent treaty provisions. 
CLAIMS AND TREATY OBLIGATIONS 
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas and Six Nations of New York, 
Choctaws and Pawnees of Oklahoma, and payment to Indians of Sioux 
reservations, to be expended as provided by law, such amounts as 
may be necessary after June 30,1951. 
I Stat. 895. 
PROCEEDS FROM POWER 
Sums not in excCvSS of the amount of power revenues covered into 
the Treasury during the current and each succeeding fiscal year to the 
credit of each of the power projects, including revenues credited prior 
to August 7,1946, to remain available until expended for the purposes 
authorized by section 3 of the Act of August 7, 1946, as amended (31 
U. S. C. 725s-3), in connection with the respective projects from 
which such revenues are derived. 
Travel expenses. 
TRIBAL r U N D S 
In addition to the tribal funds authorized to be expended by exist-
ing law, there is hereby appropriated $2,109,000 from tribal funds not 
otherwise available for expenditure for the benefit of Indians and 
Indian tribes, including pay and travel expenses of employees; care, 
tuition and other assistance to Indian children attending public and 
private schools (which may be paid in advance or from date of admis-
sion) ; purchase of land and improvements on land, title to which 
shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe for 
which purchased; lease of lands and water rights; compensation and 
expenses of attorneys and other persons employed by Indian tribes 
under approved contracts; pay, travel and other expenses of tribal 
officers, councils, and committees thereof, or other tribal organiza-
tions, including mileage for use of privately owned automobiles and 
per diem in lieu of subsistence at rates established administratively 
but not to exceed those applicable to civilian employees of the Govern-
ment ; relief of Indians, without regard to section 7 of the Act of May 
27, 1930 (46 Stat. 391), including cash grants; and employment of a 
recreational director for the Menominee Reservation and a curator 
for the Osage Museum, each of whom shall be appointed with the 
approval of the respective tribal councils and without regard to the 
classification laws: Provided^ That in addition to the amount appro-
priated herein, tribal funds may be advanced to Indian tribes during 
the current fiscal year for such purposes as may be designated by the 
§overning body of the particular tribe involved and approved by the 
ecretary: Provided^ however^ That no part of this appropriation or 
other tribal funds shall be used for the acquisition of land or water 
rights within the States of Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and 
"V^oming, either inside or outside the boundaries of existing Indian 
reservations. 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
For carrying out the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation as 
provided in the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 
4
3 u. s. c. § 3
7
2 et g^g^^ 338^ ^^^^ A.Qis aiueudatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and 
other Acts applicable to that Bureau, as follows: 
18 U. S. C. §4124. 
Recreational director 
and curator, Osage 
Museum. 
Restriction. 
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255 
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS 
For engineering and economic investigations of proposed Federal 
reclamation projects and studies of water conservation and develop-
ment plans; engineering and economic investigations, as a basis for 
legislation, and for reports thereon to Congress, relating to projects 
for the development and utilization of the water resources of Alaska; 
formulating plans and preparing designs and specifications for author-
ized Federal reclamation projects or parts thereof prior to apjjropria-
tions for construction of such projects or parts; and activities pre-
liminary to the reconstruction, rehabilitation and betterment, finan-
cial adjustment, or extension of existing projects; to remain avail-
able until expended, $4,500,000, of which not to exceed $4,234,553 shall 
be available for personal services, and of which $3,810,000 shall be 
derived from the reclamation fund and $500,000 shall be derived from 
the Colorado River development fund: Provided^ That the expendi-
ture of any sums from this appropriation for investigations of any 
nature requested by States, municipalities, or other interests shall 
be upon the basis of the State, municipality, or other interest advanc-
ing at least 50 per centum of the estimated cost of such investigations: 
Provided 
further^ That, except as herein expressly provided with 
respect to investigations in Alaska, no part of this appropriation shall 
be expended in the conduct of activities which are not authorized by 
law. 
CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION 
For construction and rehabilitation of authorized reclamation 
projects or parts thereof (including power transmission facilities and 
including a final payment of not to exceed $282,275 to the Grand 
Coulee School District, Washington, to be made for school facilities, 
in accordance with the agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation 
and the Grand Coulee School District, based on enrollment of depend-
ents of Bureau of Reclamation and contractor employees, such pay-
ment to constitute full and final discharge of all Federal responsibility 
arising out of enrollment of dependents of employees of the Bureau 
of Reclamation and its contractors) and for other related activities, 
as authorized by law, to remain available until expended, $202,767,725, 
of which not to exceed $38,104,672 shall be available for personal serv-
ices, and of which $28,972,650 shall be derived from the reclamation 
fund: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to 
initiate the construction of transmission facilities within those areas 
covered by power wheeling service contracts which include provision 
for service to Federal establishments and preferred customers, except 
those transmission facilities for which construction funds have been 
heretofore appropriated, those facilities which are necessary to carry 
out the terms of such contracts or those facilities for which the Secre-
tary of the Interior finds the wheeling agency is unable or unwilling 
to provide for the integration of Federal projects or for service to a 
Federal establishment or preferred customer: Provided further, That 
in order to promote agreement among the States of Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, and Colorado, and to avoid any possible alteration of existing 
vested water rights, no part of this or of any prior appropriation shall 
be used for construction or for further commitment for construction 
of the Glendo unit or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report 
thereon has been completed, reviewed by the States of Nebraska, 
Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by Congress: Provided 
fur-
ther, That no part of this or prior appropriations shall be used for 
construction, nor for further conmiitments to construction of Moor-
head Dam and Reservoir, Montana, or any feature thereof until a 
definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the 
States of Wyoming and Montana, and approved by the Congress. 
Reports to Congress. 
G r a n d 
C o u l e e 
School District,Wash. 
Restrictions. 
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Of the amount appropriated under the preceding paragraph, 
$1,000,000 is for partial liquidation of the contract authority granted 
under the appropriation "General fund, construction, Missouri Kiver 
Basin", in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1950. 
63 Stat. 783. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For operation and maintenance of reclamation projects or parts 
thereof and of other facilities, as authorized by law; and for a soil 
and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Reclamation, pursuant to law, $15,977,594, of which 
$12,476,494 shall be derived from the reclamation fund and $1,671,000 
shall be derived from the Colorado River dam fund, and of which not 
to exceed $10,698,514 shall be available for personal services: Pro-
vided^ That funds advanced for operation and maintenance of recla-
mation projects or parts thereof shall be deposited to the credit of 
this appropriation and may be expended for the same objects and in 
the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended, and 
the unexpended balances of such advances shall be credited to the 
appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of general administration and related func-
tions in the offices of the Commissioner of Reclamation and in the 
regional offices of the Bureau of Reclamation, $5,478,203, of which not 
to exceed $4,696,178 shall be available for personal services, to be 
derived from the reclamation fund and to be nonreimbursable pur-
59 Stat. 54. 
guant to the Act of April 19, 1945 (43 U. S. C. 377) : Provided, That 
no part of any other appropiration in this Act shall be available for 
activities or functions budgeted for the current fiscal year as general 
administrative expenses: Provided 
further, 
That not exceeding 
$150,000 of funds available for expenditure under this appropriation 
shall be used for salaries and expenses in connection with information 
work. 
EMERGENCY F U N D 
For an additional amount for the emergency fund as authorized by 
62 Stat. 1052. 
^i^g Act of J u n e 26,1948 (43 U. S. C. 502), $400,000, to be derived from 
the Reclamation fund, special fund, and to remain available until 
expended for the purposes specified in said Act. 
TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FACILITIES, FORT PECK PROJECT, MONTANA 
The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to transfer to the 
Department of the Interior without exchange of funds, all of the 
right, title, and interest of the Department of the Army in and to the 
following facilities, including rights-of-way (except that portion of 
the rights-of-way within the Fort Peck Reservoir area), but there 
shall be reserved the right to use the power facilities for the purpose 
of transmitting power to the Fort Peck project during emergency 
periods when the Fort Peck power plant is not functioning: (a) the 
Fort Peck-Rainbow (Great Falls) 161 kilovolt transmission line; 
(b) the Rainbow (Great Falls) terminal facilities; and (c) the Fort 
Peck-Whatley 50 kilovolt transmission line and substation. 
SPECIAL FUNDS 
Sums herein referred to as being derived from the reclamation fund, 
the Colorado River dam fund, or the Colorado River development 
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257 
32 Stat. 388. 
fund, are appropriated from the special funds in the Treasury 
created by the Act of June 17, 1902 (43 U. S. C. 391), the Act of 
December 21, 1928 (43 U. S. C. 6l7a), and the Act of July 19, 1940 
^^stat. 1
0
5
7
. 
(43 U. S. C. 618a), respectively. 
Such sums shall be transferred, 
54stat.774. 
upon request of the Secretary, to be merged with and expended under 
the heads herein specified; and the unexpended balances of sums trans-
ferred for expenditure under the heads "Operation and maintenance" 
and "General administrative expenses" shall revert and be credited to 
the special fund from which derived. 
ADMINISTRATIVE 
PROVISIONS 
Appropriations to the Bureau of Reclamation shall be available 
for purchase of not to exceed one hundred passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only; not to exceed $50,000 for services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), 
^ostat.sio. 
including such services at rates for individuals not to exceed $100 
per day, when authorized by the Secretary; payment of claims for 
Damageciain 
damage to or loss of property, personal injury, or death arising out 
of activities of the Bureau of Reclamation; payment, except as other-
wise provided for, of compensation and expense of persons on the 
rolls of the Bureau of Reclamation appointed as authorized by law 
to represent the United States in the negotiation and administra-
tion of interstate compacts without reimbursement or return under 
the reclamation laws; rewards for information or evidence concern- 
Re^a'ds. 
ing violations of law involving property under the jurisdiction of 
the Bureau of Reclamation; performance of the functions specified 
under the head "Operation and Maintenance 
Administration", 
Bureau of Reclamation, in the Interior Department Appropriation 
Act, 1945; preparation and dissemination of useful information 
ssstat. 486. 
including recordings, photographs, and photographic prints; and 
studies of recreational uses of reservoir areas, and investigation and 
recovery of archeological and paleontological remains in such areas 
in the same manner as provided for in the Act of August 21, 1935 
(16 U. S. C. 461-467) : Provided, 
That no part of any appropria- 
49stat.666. 
tion made herein shall be available pursuant to the Act of April 19, 
1945 (43 U. S. C. 377), for expenses other than those incurred on 
behalf of specific reclamation projects except "General Administra-
tive Expenses" and amounts provided for reconnaissance, basin sur-
veys, and general engineering and research under the head "General 
Investigations." 
Allotments to the Missouri River Basin project from the appro-
priation under the head "Construction and rehabilitation" shall be 
available additionally for said project for those functions of the 
Bureau of Reclamation provided for under the head "General investi-
gations" (but this authorization shall not preclude use of the appro-
priation under said head within that area), and for the continua-
tion of investigations by agencies of the Department on a general 
plan for the development of the Missouri River Basin. 
Such allot-
ments may be expended through or in cooperation with State and 
other Federal agencies, and advances to such agencies are hereby 
authorized. 
Sums appropriated herein which are expended in the perform-
ance of functions of the Bureau of Reclamation shall be reimbursable 
or returnable to the extent and in the manner provided by law. 
Any agency of the United States Government having title thereto „„I?"55 «
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is authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Reclamation, without 
reimbursement, parts, equipment and supplies for aircraft excess to 
its needs. 
59 Stat. 54. 
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River 
Basin. 
parts, etc. 
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Restrictions. 
Construction work 
l)y force account, etc. 
No part of any appropriation for the Bureau of Eeclamation, con-
tained in this Act or in any prior Act, which represents amounts earned 
under the terms of a contract but remaining unpaid, shall be obligated 
for any other purpose, regardless of when such amounts are to be 
paid: Provided,, That the incurring of any obligation prohibited by 
this paragraph shall be deemed a violation of section 665 of title 
31 of the United States Code. 
No funds appropriated to the Bureau of Reclamation for operation 
and maintenance, except those derived from advances by water users, 
shall be used for the particular benefit of lands (a) within the bound-
aries of an irrigation district, (b) of any member of a water users' 
organization, or (c) of any individual, when such district, organiza-
tion, or individual is in arrears for more than twelve months in the 
payment of charges due under a contract entered into with the United 
States pursuant to laws administered by the Bureau of Reclamation. 
Not to exceed $2,783,000 of the appropriation herein made for 
"Construction and rehabilitation, Bureau of Reclamation" shall be 
exj:)ended for completion of construction of the Coachella division of 
the All-American Canal system, Boulder Canyon project: Provided^ 
That any sums thereof so expended in excess of the amount required 
to be repaid under the existing contract between the Coachella Valley 
County Water District and the United States shall be repayable 
by said district to the United States unless said district shall be 
judicially determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be not 
liable therefor. 
Not to exceed 12 per centum of the construction allotment made 
by the Bureau of Reclamation for any project from the appropriation 
"Construction and Rehabilitation" contained in this Act shall be avail-
able for construction work by force account or on a hired-labor basis; 
except that not to exceed $225,000 may on approval of the Com-
missioner be expended for construction work by force account on 
any one project or Missouri Basin unit when the work is unsuitable 
for contract or when excessive bids are received; and except in cases 
of emergencies local in character, so declared by the Commissioner. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
Cooperation 
States, etc. 
with 
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary for the Geological Survey to perform sur-
veys, investigations, and research covering topography, geology, and 
the mineral and water resources of the United States, its Territories 
and possessions; classify lands as to mineral character and water and 
power resources; give engineering supervision to powder permits and 
Federal Power Commission licenses; enforce departmental regula-
tions applicable to oil, gas, and other mining leases, permits, licenses, 
and operating contracts; and publish and disseminate data relative 
to the foregomg activities; $21,300,000, of which not to exceed $13,-
455,000 shall be available for personal services, and of which 
$3,300,000 shall be available only for cooperation with States or munic-
ipalities for water resources investigations: Provided,, That the share 
of the Geological Survey in any topographic mapping or water 
resources investigations carried on in cooperation with any State or 
municipality shall not exceed 50 percentum of the cost thereof. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The amount appropriated for the Geological Survey shall be avail-
able for purchase of not to exceed eighty passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; reimbursement of the General Services Administra-
tion for security guard service for protection of confidential files; 
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contracting for the furnishing of topographic maps and for the 
making of geophysical or other specialized surveys when it is admin-
istratively determined that such procedures are in the public interest; 
construction and maintenance of necessary buildings and appurtenant 
facilities; acquisition of lands for gaging stations; and payment of 
compensation and expenses (not to exceed $10,000) of the person 
appointed by the President to participate as the representative of the 
United States in the administration of the compact consented to by 
the Act of May 31, 1949 (Public Law 82) : Provided, That notwith-
standing the provisions of any other law, the President is authorized 
to appoint a retired officer as such representative, without prejudice 
to his status as a retired Army officer, and he shall receive such com-
pensation and expenses in addition to his retired pay. 
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Appointment of re-
tired Army officer. 
BUREAU OF MINES 
CONSERVATION 
AND DEVELOPMENT 
OF MINERAL 
RESOURCES 
For expenses necessary for promoting the conservation, explora-
tion, development, production, and utilization of mineral reaources. 
including fuels, in the United States, its Territories, and possessions; 
developing synthetics and substitutes; producing and distributing 
helium; and controlling fires in inactive coal deposits on public lands, 
and on private lands, with the consent of the owner; $16,858,603, of 
which not to exceed $10,446,575 shall be available for personal serv-
ices : Provided, That ih^ Secretary is hereby authorized and directed 
to make suitable arrangements with owners of private property or 
with a State or its subdivisions for payment of a sum equal to not less 
than one-half the amount of expenditure to be made for control or 
extinguishment of fires in inactive coal deposits from funds provided 
under the authorization of this Act except that expenditure of Federal 
funds for this purpose in any privately owned operating coal mine 
shall be limited to investigation and supervision. 
Payment for fire 
control. 
H E A L T H AND SAFETY 
For expenses necessary for promotion of health and safety in mines 
and in the minerals industries, as authorized by law, $3,790,000. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction and improvement of facilities under the juris-
dition of the Bureau of Mines, to remain available until expended. 
$1,587,412, of which not to exceed $113,287 shall be available for per-
sonal services. 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE 
EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general administration of the Bureau 
of Mines, including such expenses in the regional offices, $1,176,841, of 
which not to exceed $1,018,434 shall be available for personal services. 
ADMINISTRATIVE 
PROVISIONS 
Appropriations and funds available to the Bureau of Mines may 
be expended for purchase of not to exceed one hundred and thirty 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; providing transporta-
tion services in isolated areas for employees, student dependents of 
employees, and other pupils, and such activities may be financed 
under cooperative arrangements; temporary and emergency contracts 
for personal services and employment of persons without regard to 
civil-service regulations as required in the conduct of programs for 
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Acceptance of lands 
etc. 
58 Stat. 190. 
.30 U. S. C. §§ 32 
325. 
Transfer of funds. 
Sale of m i n e r a l 
products. 
the control of fires in inactive coal deposits and flood prevention in 
anthracite mines; purchase and bestowal of certificates and trophies 
in connection with mine rescue and first-aid work: Proi)ided^ That 
the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment and 
other contributions from public and private sources and to prosecute 
projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private: 
Sale o
f power to Provided further. That power produced in the operation of the power 
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plant of the Bureau oi Mines at Louisiana, Missouri, in excess of 
the Bureau's needs may be sold to non-Federal purchasers, but the 
expenses of the Bureau in the production and sale of such excess 
power shall not exceed the total amount of such sales, and expend-
itures for the production of excess power shall not be deemed a charge 
against the total appropriations authorized by the Synthetic Liquid 
Fuels Act, as amended: Provided further, That the sums made avail-
able for the current fiscal year to the Departments of the Army, Navy, 
and Air Force for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines 
shall be transferred to the Bureau of Mines on July 1 of said fiscal 
year: Provided 
further, 
That the Bureau of Mines is authorized, 
during the current fiscal year, to sell directly or through any Govern-
ment agency, including corporations, any metal or mineral product 
that may be manufactured in pilot plants operated by the Bureau 
of Mines, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
NATIONAL PAKK SERVICE 
MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION 
For expenses necessary for the management and protection of the 
areas and facilities administered by the National Park Service, includ-
ing protection of lands in process of condemnation; and for plans, 
investigations, and studies of the recreational resources (exclusive of 
preparation of detail plans and working drawings) and archaeo-
logical values in river basins of the United States (except the Missouri 
Eiver Basin); $7,735,000, of which not to exceed $6,584,342 shall be 
available for personal services: Provided, That the unexpended bal-
ance of the appropriation granted under this head for the fiscal year 
1951 for the "Mississippi River Parkway" shall remain available 
during the current fiscal year. 
MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and rehabili-
tation of roads, trails, buildings, utilities, and other physical facilities 
essential to the operation of areas administered pursuant to law by 
the National Park Service, $7,369,790, of which not to exceed 
$4,193,747 shall be available for personal services. 
37 Stat. 460. 
f)3 Stat. 765. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction and improvement, without regard to the Act of 
August 24, 1912, as amended (16 U. S. C. 451), of roads, trails, park-
ways, buildings, utilities, and other physical facilities; and the acqui-
sition of lands, interests therein, improvements, and water rights; to 
remain available until expended, $11,370,000, of which not to exceed 
$945,000 shall be available for personal services, and of which 
$1,150,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to 
authority granted under the head "Independence National Historical 
Park, Pennsylvania", in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 
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1950, and $3,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant 
to authority contained in section 4 (b) of the Federal-Aid Highway 
Act of 1950. 
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and notes. 
60 Stat. 88,^. 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general administration of the National 
Park Service, including such expenses in the regional offices, $1,171,774, 
of which not to exceed $1,014,538 shall be available for personal 
services. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the National Park Service shall be available for 
purchase of not to exceed nineteen passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; cleaning and repair of uniforms for National Capi-
tal Parks police and guards; and the objects and purposes specified in 
the Act of August 7,1946 (16 U. S. C. 17J-2). 
F I S H AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 
MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES 
For expenses necessary for conservation, management, protection, 
and utilization of fish and wildlife resources, and for the performance 
of other authorized functions related to such resources; operation of 
the industrial properties within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife 
Refuge (61 Stat. 770); maintenance of the herd of long-horned cattle 
or the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge; purchase or rent of land, 
and functions related to wildlife management in California (16 
U. S. C. 695-695c); and not to exceed $30,000 for payment, in the dis- 
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cretion of the Secretary, for information or evidence concerning viola-
tions of laws administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service; $6,678,-
196, of which not to exceed $4,259,363 shall be available for personal 
services. 
INVESTIGATIONS OF RESOURCES 
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic studies and 
investigations respecting conservation, management, protection, and 
utilization of fish and wildlife resources, including related aquatic 
plants and products; collection, compilation, and publication of infor-
mation concerning such studies and investigations; and the perform-
ance of other functions related thereto; as authorized by law; $3,858,-
986, of which not to exceed $2,487,629 shall be available for personal 
services. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction and acquisition of buildings and other facilities 
required in the conservation, management, protection, and utilization 
of fish and wildlife resources and the acquisition of lands and interests 
therein, including continuing the construction of fish cultural facilities 
on lands owned by the State of South Dakota; to remain available 
until expended, $733,742, of which not to exceed $146,324 shall be 
available for personal services. 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general administration of the Fish 
and Wildlife Service, including such expenses in the regional offices, 
$806,631, of which not to exceed $678,319 shall be available for per-
sonal services. 
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(Public Law 681), amounts equal to the revenues described in section 
3 of said Act and credited during the next preceding fiscal year and 
each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATION OF PRIBILOF ISLANDS 
58 Stat. 100. 
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of February 26, 1944, 
as amended (16 U. S. C. 631a-631q), amounts equal to 60 per centum 
of the proceeds covered into the Treasury during the next preceding 
fiscal year from the sale of sealskins and other products, to remain 
available for expenditure during the current and next succeeding 
fiscal years. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Appropriations for the Fish and Wildlife Service shall be avail-
able for purchase of not to exceed seventy-four passenger motor ve-
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hides for replacement only; purchase of not to exceed six aircraft for 
replacement only; publication and distribution of bulletins as author-
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[^.ed by law (7 U. S. C. 417); rations or commutation of rations for 
officers and crews of vessels at rates not to exceed $2 per man per d a y ; 
repair of damage to public roads within and adjacent to reservation 
of?a^nd°" ^^^ P'"'^*'^'^'' areas caused by operations of the Fish and Wildlife Service; options 
for the purchase of land at not to exceed $1 for each option; facilities 
incident to such public recreational uses on conservation areas as are 
not inconsistent with their primary purposes; and the maintenance 
and improvement of aquaria, buildings, and other facilities under 
the jurisdiction of the Fish and Wildlife Service and to which the 
United States has title, and which are utilized pursuant to law in 
connection with management and investigation of fish and wildlife 
resources. 
OFFICE OF TERRITORIES 
ADMINISTRATION OF TERRITORIES 
For expenses necessary for the administration of Territories and 
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under the jurisdiction of 
the Department of the Interior, including expenses of the offices of 
the Governors of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, as author-
ized by law (48 U. S. C, sees. 61, 531, 1422, 1431a (c), expenses of the 
Government of the Virgin Islands including the agricultural station, 
,.,f Stat. 1807;47Stat. .^^ authorized by law (48 U. S. C. 1405, 7 U. S. C. 386g), and expenses 
of the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands appointed pursuant to the trusteeship agreement approved by 
6^stat.^j97^ § 2
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note. 
members of the legislatures in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and American 
Samoa as authorized by law (48 U. S. C, sees. 87, 599, 1421d (e), and 
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Samoa as authorized by law (48 U. S. C. 1431a (c)) and the Trust 
Territory of the Pacific Islands under the trusteeship agreement 
approved by Public Law 204, Eightieth Congress; care of insane as 
authorized by law for Alaska (48 U. S. C. 46-50) ; grants to the Virgin 
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, in addition to current local revenues, for support of govern-
mental functions; and not to exceed $50,000 for personal services, 
household equipment and furnishings, and utilities necessary in the 
operation of the several Governors' houses; $7,020,000, of which not 
to exceed $811,865 shall be available for personal services: Provided, 
31 Stat. 321, 153; 64 
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That the Territorial and local governments of the Virgin Islands, 
Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands are authorized to make purchases through the General Serv-
ices Administration: Provided further^ That appropriations available ve^eiT^" '^"'* '
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for the Administration of Territories, including the Trust Territory 
of the Pacific Islands, may be expended for the purchase, maintenance, 
and operation of not to exceed four aircraft, 1 AK and 6 AKL type 
surface vessels, and such minor vessels as may be required, for official 
purposes and for commercial transportation purposes found by the 
Secretary to be necessary in carrying out the provisions of Article 
6 (2) of the trusteeship agreement approved by Public Law 204, 
Eightieth Congress. 
ALASKA PUBLIC WORKS 
63 Stat. fi27. 
18 U. S. C. § 186 
For an additional amount for expenses necessary for carrying out 
the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1949 (Public Law 264), to 
remain available until June 30, 1955, $7,000,000, of which not to "ote 
exceed $463,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, and 
of which not to exceed $333,000 shall be available for personal services. 
CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, ALASKA 
For construction of roads, tramways, buildings, ferries, bridges, 
and trails, including surveys and plans for new road construction; 
acquisition of lands or interests in lands by purchase, donation, con-
demnation, or otherwise: to remain available until expended, 
$20,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,493,000 shall be available for 
personal services, and of which not to exceed $8,000,000 is for liquida-
tion of obligations incurred pursuant to authority previously granted. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ROADS, ALASKA 
For operation and maintenance of roads, tramways, buildings, 
ferries, bridges, and trails, $2,900,000, of which not to exceed 
$1,935,840 shall be available for personal services. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
The total of the amounts herein appropriated for construction, 
operation and maintenance of roads in Alaska shall be available in 
on& fund, except that the appropriation herein made for operation 
and maintenance shall be available only for the service of the current 
fiscal year. 
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work by force account, or on a hired labor basis. 
CONSTRUCTION, ALASKA RAILROAD 
For the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including improve-
ments and new construction, to remain available until expended, 
$2,000,000: Provided, 
That funds appropriated under this head may 
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be transferred to the Alaska Railroad Special Fund for purposes of 
accounting and administration. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ALASKA RAILROAD 
The Alaska Railroad Special Fund shall continue available until 
expended for the work authorized by law, including operation of 
facilities under the jurisdiction of the railroad in Mount McKinley 
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39 Stat. 750. 
Salary limitation. 
National Park; operation and maintenance of oceangoing or coastwise 
vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches 
of the Grovernment service, for the purpose of providing additional 
facilities for transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when 
deemed necessary for the benefit and development of industries or 
travel in the area served; and payment of compensation and expenses 
as authorized by section 42 of the Act of September 7,1916 (5 U. S. C. 
793), to be reimbursed as therein provided: Provided^ That no one 
other than the general manager of said railroad, and one assistant 
general manager at not to exceed $13,000 per annum, shall be paid an 
annual salary out of said fund of more than $11,000. 
Restriction. 
VIRGIN ISLANDS PUBLIC WORKS 
For an additional amount to carry out the provisions of the Act 
of December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 827), $992,970, of which not to exceed 
$63,270 shall be available for personal services: Provided^ That the 
estimated project costs specified in said Act of December 20, 1944, 
shall not constitute limitations on amounts that may be expended 
for such projects: Provided 
further^ That no part of this appro-
priation shall be used for the waterfront development project on 
Saint Thomas, and the amount included in the 1952 budget esti-
mates for this project is hereby made available for school and hospital 
facilities in the Virgin Islands. 
ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT or 
THE INTERIOR 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior 
(referred to herein as the Secretary), including teletype rentals and 
service; $2,154,911, of which not to exceed $1,890,798 shall be avail-
able for personal services. 
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aliens. 
of 
Attendance at meet-
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Availability of funds 
for emergency con-
struction. 
Emergency preven-
tion of fires. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E 
INTERIOR 
SEC. 102. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, 
aliens may be employed during the current fiscal year in the field 
service of the Department for periods of not more than thirty days 
in cases of emergency caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or 
sabotage. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations in this Act available for travel expenses 
shall be available, for expenses of attendance of officers and employ-
ees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associa-
tions concerned with the work of the bureau or office for which the 
appropriation concerned is made. 
SEC. 104. Appropriations made in this Act shall be available for 
expenditure or transfer (within each bureau or office), with the 
approval of the Secretary, for the emergency reconstruction, replace-
ment or repair of buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment 
damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable 
causes: Provided^ That no funds shall be made available under this 
authority until funds specifically made available to the Department 
of the Interior for emergencies shall have been exhausted. 
SEC. 105. The Secretary may authorize the expenditure or transfer 
(within each bureau or office) of any appropriation in this Act, in 
addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of the 
several agencies, for the suppression or emergency prevention of 
forest or range fires on or threatening lands under jurisdiction of the 
Reimbursements. 
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Department of the Interior: Provided^ That apppropriations made 
in this Act for fire suppression purposes shall be available for the 
payment of obligations incurred during the preceding fiscal year. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations made in this Act shall be available for 
operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wher-
ever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or econ-
omy, and said appropriations shall be reimbursed for services ren-
dered to any other activity in the same manner as authorized by the 
Act of June 30, 1932 (31 U. S. C. 686) : ProvUed, That reimburse- ^
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rendered may be credited to the appropriation current at the time 
such reimbursements are received. 
SEC. 107. Appropriations made in this Act shall be available for 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 
U. S. C. 55a) when authorized by the Secretary; maintenance and 
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operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; examination 
of estimates of appropriations in the field; payment for telephone 
service in private residences in the field, when authorized under 
regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, 
when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies 
or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price 
to members lower than to subscribers who are not members. 
SEC. 108. The balances of all contract authorizations heretofore 
granted to the Interior Department or any of its bureaus or offices, 
which remain unobligated on June 30, 1952, are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 109. Transfers to the Department of the Interior pursuant to 
the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 of 
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property, other than real, excess to the needs of the Navy Department note. 
may be made during the current fiscal year at the request of the 
Secretary of the Interior without reimbursement or transfer of funds 
when required by the Interior Department for operations conducted 
in the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 
and American Samoa. 
TITLE II—VIKGIN ISLANDS COEPORATION 
REVOLVING FUND 
For an additional .amount for the revolving fund established under 
this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, to provide 
esstat. 875. 
for advances to the Virgin Islands Corporation as authorized by law, 
$2,595,000. 
GRANTS 
For payment to the Virgin Islands Corporation in the form of 
grants, for expenses incurred during the current fiscal year, as author-
ized by section 8 of the Virgin Islands Corporation Act, in the conduct 
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$130,000: Provided^ That funds appropriated under this head in the 
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1951, for estimated losses 
64stat. 696. 
to be sustained during the fiscal year 1951, shall remain available for 
estimated losses to be sustained during the fiscal year 1952: Provided 
further^ That an amount equal to the excess of grants for estimated 
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losses for revenue producing activities over the actual loss for the 
fiscal year 1951 and the estimated loss for the fiscal year 1952 shall be 
transferred from the appropriation for "Grants" to the "Revolving 
Fund, Virgin Islands Corporation" and shall be merged therewith. 
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59 Stat. 598. 
31 U. S. C. §849. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
During the current fiscal year the Virgin Islands Corporation is 
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
funds 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, as may be necessary in carrying out its programs as set forth 
in the budget for the fiscal year 1952: Provided^ That not to exceed 
$130,000 shall be available for administrative expenses (to be com-
puted on an accrual basis) of the Corporation, covering the categories 
set forth in the 1952 Budget estimates for such expenses. 
Informational 
editorial functions 
and 
Maps, etc. 
Chauffeurs. 
Employees engaged 
in personnel work. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No part of the money appropriated by this Act or by it 
made available for expenditure by the Virgin Islands Corporation 
which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount required to pay the 
compensation of all persons which the budget estimates for personal 
services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1952 
contemplated would be employed by the Department of the Interior 
or the Virgin Islands Corporation during such fiscal year in the 
performance of— 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an infor-
mation specialist, information and editorial specialist, publica-
tions and information coordinator, press relations officer or 
counsel, photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion-
picture expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar 
title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons per-
forming the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, 
editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public informa-
tion publications or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine 
articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2) : Provided^ That this section shall 
not be construed as having application to the preparation for publi-
cation of reports and maps resulting from authorized scientific and 
engineering investigations and surveys, to photography incident to 
the compilation and reproduction of maps and reports, or to photo-
copying of permanent records for preservation. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the compensation of any civilian employee of the Gov-
ernment in the District of Columbia whose duties consist of acting as 
chauffeur of any Government-owned passenger motor vehicle (owier 
than a bus or ambulance and two passenger motor vehicles assigned 
one to the Secretary and one to the Under Secretary), unless such 
appropriation is specifically authorized to be used for paying the 
compensation of employees performing such duties. 
SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the compensation of any employee engaged in per-
sonnel work in excess of the number that would be provided by a ratio 
of one such employee to one hundred and ten, or a part thereof, 
full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees of the agency con-
cerned: Provided^ That for purposes of this section employees shall 
be considered 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 
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of civil-service examiners; wage administration; and processing, re-
cording, and reporting. 
SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 
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 member of an organization of Government employees 
that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United 
States, or who advocates, 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 Government 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 advocate, and is not a member of an organization 
that advocates, the overthrow 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 or fund contained in this Act shall be 
f
uilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than 
1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided 
furthe7\ That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided 
further^ That in cases of emergency, caused by fire, flood, storm, act 
of God, or sabotage, persons may be employed for periods of not more 
than thirty days and be paid salaries and wages without the necessity 
of inquiring into their membership in any organization. 
SEC. 305. No part of any appropriation or authorization contained 
in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any incumbent 
appointed to any civil office or position which may become vacant 
during the fiscal year beginning on July 1,1951: Provided^ That this 
inhibition shall not apply— 
(a) to not to exceed 25 per centum of all vacancies; 
^b) to positions filled from within the department; 
(c) to offices or positions required by law to be filled by appoint-
ment of the President by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate; 
(d) to positions the personnel of which are engaged in health 
and safety, law enforcement, operation and maintenance, soil and 
moisture, and forestry activities in the field, exclusive of adminis-
trative personnel not directly connected with the operation of 
any such specific activity; 
(e) to seasonal and casual workers: 
Provided further^ That with the exception of the agencies and func-
tions listed in (b) through (e) above, not more than 90 per centum of 
the amounts shown in the budget estimates for personal services shall 
be available for such purpose: Provided further^ That when the total 
number of personnel subject to this section has been reduced to 90 per 
centum of the total provided for in the budget estimates for 1952, this 
section may cease to apply. 
This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation 
Act, 1952." 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating over-
throw of U. S. Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Emergency employ-
ment. 
Restriction on ap-
pointments. 
Nonapplicability.