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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 633 -AUG. 9, 1939 The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, is authorized to pay from the amount of $1,700 withheld from payment to the contractor, adjusted compensation in the amount of $1,686.05, representing sums due employees of the contractor who failed to receive the full rates of wages required by the contract for the construction of the Agency Valley Dam, Vale reclamation project, Oregon. BUREAUJ OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY The appropriations and funds available to the Bureau of Bio- logical Survey for the fiscal year 1940 shall be available (1) for packing, crating, and transportation, including drayage, of personal effects of employees upon permanent change of station, under regu- lations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and (2) for necessary expenses (not to exceed $3,000) of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said Bureau when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, approved February 18, 1929 (16 U. S. C. 715f), the sum of $10,345, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation for the fiscal year 1940 for carrying into effect the provisions of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, approved March 16, 1934 (16 U. S. C . 718-718h), as amended, is hereby made available during such year for payment of deficiency judgments and decrees, with interest thereon, rendered in excess of the estimated awards in condemnation and declaration of taking proceedings for the acquisition of lands embraced within the Medicine Lake Migra- tory Waterfowl Refuge, Montana. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gaging streams: For an additional amount for gaging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investi- gation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the prep- aration of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, fiscal year 1940, $25,000. Strategic and critical minerals: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Geological Survey in performing the duties imposed upon it by section 7 of the Act of June 7, 1939 (Public, Numbered 117, Seventy-sixth Congress), including personal services in the District of Colmbia (not to exceed $45,000) and in the field; purchase and exchange, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, fiscal year 1940, $150,000. BUREAU OF MINES Expenses, mining experiment stations: For an additional amount for maintenance and operation of mining experiment stations, fiscal year 1940, $15,000. Economics of mineral industries: For an additional amount for inquiries and investigations, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1940, fiscal year 1940, $7,000. Investigation of domestic sources of mineral supply: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Bureau of Mines in performing the duties imposed upon it by section 7 of the Act of June 7, 1939 (Public, Numbered 117, Seventy-sixth Con- gress); including the purchase of professional and scientific books; not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding; not to exceed $15,000 for purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled 1317 Agency Valley Dam, Vale reclama- tion project, Oreg. Adjusted compen- sation payments. Availabilityoffunds for transportation, etc., of personaleffects. Attendance at meet- ings. Medicine Lake Mi- gratory Waterfowl Ref- uge, Mont. Payment of defi- ciency judgments, etc. 45 Stat. 1223. 16U. S. C. §715f. 48 Stat. 451 . s1U. . c. §§ 718- 718h; Supp. IV, §§718a-718e. Gaging streams, etc. Ante, p. 720. Sl rat egleand crit ical lilnerals. Ante, p).812 . Mining experiment stations, expenses. Ante, p. 723. Economics of min- eral industries. Investigations, etc. Ante, p. 723. Domestic sources of mineral supply, in- vestigation. Ante, p. 812. Printing and bind- ing. Motor vehicles.

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