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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 472-JULY 2, 1942 of new processes and methods of fabrication; and the solutions of problems arising in connection with standards, $802,000. Standards for commerce: For cooperation with Government pur- chasing agencies, industries, and national organizations in develop- ing specifications and facilitating their use; for encouraging the application of the latest developments in the utilization and standard- ization of building materials; for the development of engineering and safety codes simplified-practice recommendations, and commercial standards of quality and performance, $187,500. During the fiscal year 1943 the head of any department or inde- pendent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the National Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau, and which the National Bureau of Standards is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary of Com- merce, transfer to the National Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Depart- ment any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the National Bureau of Standards for performance of work for the department or establish- ment from which the transfer is made, including, where necessary, travel expenses and compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field. The appropriation in this title for traveling expenses shall be available for the National Bureau of Standards in an amount not to exceed $4,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with standardization and research or either, when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Commerce. Not to exceed $50,000 of funds available to the Bureau by appro- priation and transfer shall be available for payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicians as may be contracted for by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceed- ing $25 per diem for any person so employed. Total, National Bureau of Standards, $2,440,200, of which amount not to exceed $2,161,700 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. WEATHER BUrrAE Salaries and expenses: For the employment of persons and means, including rental of buildings, required for carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adja- cent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska the provisions of sections 1 and 3 of an Act approved October 1, 1890 (15 U. S. C . 311-313), and section 803 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 (49 U. S. C . 603); for purchase of books of reference; for traveling expenses; for necessary expenses (not to exceed $2.000) of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the Bureau when authorized by the Secretary of Commerce; for the purchase, exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; transfer of household goods and effects, as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940, and regulations promul- gated thereunder; detail of not to exceed a total of ten members of the Weather Bureau personnel for training at Government expense at civilian institutions in advanced methods of meteoro- Scientific investiga- tions for Government departments, etc. Ante, p. 169. Transfer of funds. Attendance at meet- ings. Intermittent em- ployment of scientists, etc. Pot, p. 718 26 Stat. 653 . 62 Stat. 1014. 54 Stat. 1105 . 5 U.S.. 73e-l. Training of person- nel at civilian institu- tions. 499

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