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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 119-MAY 10, 1939 with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affect- ing these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence, and the purchase, not to exceed $12,000, including exchange, operation, maintenance and repair of motor- propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for oficial use in field work, including not to exceed $27,900 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $274,860: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for an investigation in behalf of any private party: Oil and gas investigations: For inquiries and investigations and dissemination of information concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, including economic conditions affecting the industry, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; for the purchase of newspapers relating to the oil, gas, and allied industries: Provided, That section 192 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S . C. 102) shall not apply to such purchase of newspapers from this appropriation; and for every other expense incident thereto, including supplies, equipment, expenses of travel and subsistence, pur- chase, not to exceed $4,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for offi- cial use in field work, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $260,000, of which amount not to exceed $22,600 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal serv- ices, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, the purchase not to exceed $3,000, exchange as part payment for, maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other expenses in connec- tion with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experiment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (30 T. S. C . 8), $527,000, of which appropriation not to exceed $17,100 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia, Building and equipment, University of Utah, Bureau of Mines: The unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head for the fiscal year 1939 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1940; Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and maintenance of buildings and grounds at Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pennsylvania, including personal services, the purchase, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobiles for official use, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including not to exceed $5,000 for additions and improvements, $95,000; For the purchase of land at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the land now owned by the United States and occupied and used for the purposes of the explosives testing station and experimental mine of the Bureau of Mines; the purchase of unmined crop coal, oil and gas in and under the land to be purchased and the land now owned and occupied in connection with the said testing station and experimental mine; the recording of deeds; and the purchase and erection of fences, including personal services, materials and supplies, $35,000; Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, and the dissemination of information concerning the economic prob- lems of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral indus- tries, with a view to assuring ample supplies and efficient distribution 723 Vehicles. Proviso. Investigations for private parties. Oil and gas investi- gations. Proiso. Purchase of news- papers. R. S.§192. 5 U.S. C. 102. Mining experiment stations. Post, p. 1317. Additional stations. 38 Stat. 959. 30U.S.C.58. University of Utah, building and equip- ment. 52 Stat. 1133 . Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pa., care, etc., of buildings and grounds. Bruceton, Pa., pur- chase of land. Economic of min- eral industries. Investigations, etc. Post, p. 1317.

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