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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 259--JUNE 28, 1941 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 main- tenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, as provided in the Act authorizing additional mining experi- ment stations, approved March 3, 1915 (30 U. S. C . 8), $553,500, of which appropriation not to exceed $17,100 may be expended for per- sonal services in the District of Columbia; Construction of Electric Furnace Laboratory Building, Norris, Tennessee: For the erection and equipment of a building, suitable for an electric-furnace experimental laboratory, adjacent to the Bureau of Mines Electrotechnical Laboratory at Norris, Tennessee, on land conveyed to the Department of the Interior on August 7, 1940, by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including the preparation of plans and specifications, adver- tising and supervision of construction, $10,000; 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 $10,000 for additions and improvements, $109,480; 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 of the mineral products of the mines and quarries, including studies and reports relating to uses, reserves, production, distribution, stocks, consumption, prices, and marketing of mineral commodities and primary products thereof; preparation of the reports of the mineral resources of the United States, including special statistical inquiries; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; purchase of furniture and equipment; stationery and sup- plies; typewriting, adding and computing machines, accessories and repairs; newspapers; traveling expenses; purchase, not exceeding $1,200, exchange as part payment for, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work; and for all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $466,880, of which amount not to exceed $276,940 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 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 Congress); including the purchase of professional and scientific books; not to exceed $1,500 for printing and binding; purchase not to exceed $22,000, exchange as part payment for, operation, main- tenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work and in transporting employees between their homes and temporary locations where they may be employed; purchase of goggles, gloves, rubber boots, miners' hats, aprons, and such other articles of personal wearing apparel or equipment as may be required for the protection of employees while engaged in 343 38 Stat. 969. Construction of lab- oratory, Norris, Tenn. Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pa. Vehicles. Post, p. 684. 53 Stat. 812. 50U..C.i9s. Vehicles

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