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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 109-MAY 5, 1945 tions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes, and such economic investigations, includ- ing housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, and for disseminating useful infor- mation on this subject, $850,000. WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST CONTROL For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act for forest protection against the white pine blister rust", approved April 26, 1940 (16 U. S . C . 594a), and in accordance with the provisions thereof, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $2,923,867, of which amount $259,838 shall be available to the Depart- ment of the Interior for control of white pine blister rust on or en- dangering Federal lands under the jurisdiction of that Department or lands of Indian tribes which are under the jurisdiction of or retained under restrictions of the United States; $1,266,066 of said amount to the Forest Service for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering lands under its jurisdiction; and $1,397,963 of said amount to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for lead- ership and general coordination of the entire program, method develop- ment, and for operations conducted under its direction for such control, including, but not confined to, cooperation with individual States, local authorities and private agencies in the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering State and privately owned lands. FOREST SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including not to exceed $842,861 for depart- mental personal services in the District of Columbia, and to enable the Secretary to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign spe- cies, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary build- ings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water-supply or sanitary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be erected, shall not exceed $10,000, with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $10,000 or more, may be improved out of the appropriations made under this Act for the Forest Service by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the cost of such building as certified by the Secre- tary; to protect, administer and improve the national forests, includ- ing tree planting and other measures to prevent erosion, drift, surface wash, soil waste, and the formation of floods, and to conserve water; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests, to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters therein; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase lawbooks, reference and 149 54 Stat. 188. Availabilityof funds for designated agen- cies. Experiments and investigations. Cost of buildings. Protection, etc., of national forests. Care of fisb and game

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