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 56 STAT.] 77rH CONG. , 2D SESS.--CH. 473-JULY 2, 1942 to accept buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources for the purposes hereof, and to operate said plants in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private; Investigation of deposits of critical and essential minerals in the United States and its possessions (national defense): For all neces- sary expenses, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, for investigating deposits of critical and essential minerals in the United States and its possessions, including laboratory research; preliminary examination and surface and subsurface exploration; supplies and equipment; travel expenses; not to exceed $55,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not to exceed $1,500 for printing and binding; purchase in the District of Columbia and elsewhere of other items otherwise properly chargeable to the appro- priation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior"; hire with or without personal services of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment; books of reference and periodicals; purchase not to exceed $5,000 (including exchange), operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying automo- biles; special wearing apparel and equipment for the protection of employees while employed; $2,167,500, to be immediately available: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public or private sources for the purposes hereof, and to carry out the projects in coopera- tion with other agencies, Federal, State, or private; Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for the fiscal year 1943 in the Acts making appropriations for the War and Navy Departments for the acquisition of helium from the Bureau of Mines shall be transferred to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1942, for operation and maintenance of the plants for the pro- duction of helium for military and naval purposes, including labora- tory gloves, goggles, rubber boots, and aprons; purchase, not to exceed $4,500, and exchange as part payment for, maintenance, opera- tion, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use in field work, and all other necessary expenses, and includ- ing $20,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia, in addi- tion to which sums the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operations in the fiscal year 1943 the unobligated balance of funds transferred to it for such operations in the fiscal year 1942: Pro- vided, That section 3709, Revised Statutes, shall not be construed to apply to this appropriation, or to the appropriation for development and operation of helium properties (special fund) in section 8 (c) of the Act of September 1, 1937 (50 U. S. C. 164); 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 Bureau of Mines on scientific investigations 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 Bureau of Mines such sums as may be neces- sary to carry on such investigations. The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder, and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Mines for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made: Provided, That any sums transferred by any department or inde- pendent establishment of the Government to the Bureau of Mines for cooperative work in connection with this appropriation may be expended in the same manner as sums appropriated herein may be expended; Investigation of de- posits of critical and essential minerals. 41lU.s. a.§5. Ante, p. 509. Proviso. Contributions Helium production and investigations. Transfer of funds. Post, pp. 619, 992; ante, p. 67. Proviso. 41 U. S.0. 6. 60 Stat. 886. Cooperative work on scientific Investiga- tions. Transfer of funds. Proviso. Expenditure 547

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