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 1600 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. Srss. II. Cff. 705 . 1929 . ing personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses of members and employees of the commission, printing and binding, and other necessary incidental expenses, $3,000, and the unexpended balance of appropriations for the above- mentioned purposes for the fiscal year 1929 shall continue available during the fiscal year 1930. For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1930, and for fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas adm inistered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improve- ments that hav e been destro yed by forest fires within such areas, $20,000, together with not to exceed $60,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget : Provided, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire : Provided further, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas admin- ist ered by the N ational Park Service as may be required for fire- fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. The total of the foregoing amounts shall be immediately available in one fund for the National Park Service : Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall not authorize for expenditure prior to July 1, 1929, any of the amounts herein appropriated except those for construction of -physical improvements, for tree-disease and insect-contr ol work in Cr ater Lake, Mes a Verde, and Lafayette National Parks, and for administration, protection, and mainte- nance of Bryce Canyon National Park : Provided further, That in the settlement of the accounts of the National Park Service the amount herein made available for each national park and other main headings shall not be exceeded, except that 10 per centum of the for egoing amount s shall be av ailable interc hangeably for expendi- tures in the various national parks named, and in the national monu- ments, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or monuments or for any particular item within a park or monument : Provided further, That any interchange of appropriations hereunder shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. For the a cquisi tion o f pri vately owned land s and/ or sta nding timber within the boundaries of existing national parks and national monume nts by purch ase o r by c ondemn ation under the p rovisi ons of the Act of August 1, 1888 (U. S. C., p. 1302, sec. 257), whenever in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior acquisition by con- demnation proceedings is necessary or advantageous to the Govern- ment, such condemnation proceedings not to be resorted to for acqui- sition of lands in Acadia, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, Hot Springs, Platt or Yellowstone National Parks not leased to others but occupied by the owner and used exclusively for residence amountt from a or religious purposes by such owner, $250,000, to be expended only na- tions. when matched by equal amounts by donation from other sources for Provisos. Additional land au- the same purpose, to be available until expended : Provided, That in with ed ou tsi de whenm funcs. atched addition to the amount herein appropriated the Secretary of the Interior may i ncur obligati ons and enter into contract s for addi- tional acquisition of privately owned lands and/or standing timber in the existing national parks and national monuments not exceeding Balance available. Ante, p. 236. Roads, trails, etc. Repairing damag es by una voida ble cause s. Fi ghtin g fo rest fires. Diversions authoriz- ed. Provisos. Limit on use. Al lotm ent o nly for incur red obligatio ns. Am ount s imm edia te- ly available. Provisos Limitat ion on expen- di ture prio r to July 1, 1929 . Interchangeable ap- pr opria tion s lim ited. Report to Congress. Acquisition of pri- vately owned lands, etc ., within parks and monuments. Vol.25,p . 357. U.S . Code, p. 1302.

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