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 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 473-JULY 2, 1942 sistence, the construction, maintenance. and repair of necessary camp buildings and appurtenances thereto, $339,750, of which amount not to exceed $65,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; During the fiscal year 1943 the head of any department or inde- pendent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific and technical investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Geological Survey on scientific and technical investi- gations within the scope of the functions of that Bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, transfer to the Geological Survey such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be author- ized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Geological Survey for the performance of work for the depart- ment or establishment from which the transfer is made: Provided, That any sums transferred by any department or independent estab- lishment of the Government to the Geological Survey for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended: Pro- vided further, That any funds herein appropriated for the Geo- logical Survey for cooperative work may be utilized prior to July 1, 1942, as required to enable the Geological Survey to continue its cooperative work pending reimbursement from cooperative agencies, the amount required for such cooperative work to be placed to the credit of the 1942 appropriation account of the Geological Survey and subsequently repaid to the appropriation from which advanced: Provided further, That not to exceed 10 per centum of the fore- going amounts appropriated for the Geological Survey shall be available interchangeably and shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget; During the fiscal year 1943, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish aerial photographs required for mapping proj- ects, insofar as the furnishing of such photographs will be economical to the Federal Government and does not conflict with military or naval operations or the other parts of the regular training program of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps flying services, and the Secre- tary of the Interior is authorized to reimburse the War or Navy Department for the cost of making the photographs, such cost to be confined to the actual cost of gasoline oil, film, paper, chemicals, and the labor performed in developing the photographic negatives and the printing of copies of photographs, and the per diem expenses of the personnel authorized by law, together with such incidental expenses as care and minor repairs to plane and transportation of personnel to and from projects, and the War Department or the Navy Department, on request of the Department of the Interior, is authorized to furnish copies to any State, county, or municipal agency cooperating with the Federal Government in the mapping project for which the photographs were taken. In the event that the Director of the Geological Survey deems it advantageous to the Government, the Geological Survey is authorized to contract with civilian aerial photographic concerns for the furnishing of such photographs or for the furnishing of topographic maps made from such photographs; In all, salaries and expenses, United States Geological Survey, $4,691,090. Cooperative work on scientific, etc., in- vestigations. Transfer of funds. Ante, p. 516. Prorisos. Expenditure. Cooperative work; availability of funds. Interchange of amounts. Aerial photographs for mapping projects. Copies. Contractswithcivil- ian concerns. 539 56 STAT.]

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