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 56 STAT.] 77rH CONG. , 2D SESS.- H. 473 -JULY 2, 1942 $729,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is hereby authorized to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of this appropriation; Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and use of mineral fuels, and for investigation of mineral fuels belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient utilization; to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and, upon request of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to investigate the fuel-burning equipment in use by or proposed for any of the departments, establishments, or institutions of the United States in the District of Columbia, $356,205, of which amount not to exceed $44,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; Experimental plant for synthesis of motor fuel, Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania: For the construction and equipment of a building on Gov- ernment-owned land adjacent to the Bureau of Mines Central Experi- ment Station at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for chemical engineering study of processes for the synthesis of liquid motor fuels and lubri- cants from gases, and all necessary expenses incident thereto, including supplies and equipment and the engagement by contract or otherwise, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, at such rates of compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine of the services of engineers, architects, or firms or corporations thereof necessary to design, construct, and equip the building, $85,000; Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treat- ment, and utilization of ores and mineral substances, other than fuels, 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 affecting 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 official use in field work, including not to exceed $28,600 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $390,745: Provided,That no part of this appro- priation 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, purchase, not to exceed $6,500, exchange as part payment for, mainte- nance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, purchase of laboratory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons, $368,100, of which amount not to exceed $29,500 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia; 541 Proviso. Contributions. Recommendations to Government agencies. 41U. S. .O.§ Mineral mining in- vestigations. ProISm Oil and gas Invstl- gatlons. Proviso. Purchase of news- papers, etc.

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