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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CH. 130 -MAY 29, 1945 BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS For the labor, materials, supplies, and facilities necessary for the general maintenance of activities and properties under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including accident prevention; contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations; purchase of five hundred passen- ger automobiles, and purchase of motortruck chassis with station- wagon type bodies and motorbusses, maintenance, repair, rental out- side continental United States (not exceeding $5,000), and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles for the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of such engineers, architects, and technicists as may be con- tracted for by the Secretary, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not to exceed $25 per diem for any person so employed, $144,000,000; for expenses of operation and maintenance of housing projects main- tained and operated as such by the Navy Department and developed under the provisions of the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676); September 9, 1940 (54 Stat. 872); October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1125); March 1, 1941 (55 Stat. 14); May 24, 1941 (55 Stat. 197); and December 17, 1941 (55 Stat. 810), including utilities, roads, walks and accessories, and expenses found necessary in the disposition of any such property or the removal of temporary housing, $6,000,000; in all, $150,000,000. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS For public works and public utilities, Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the acquisition of necessary land, $1,589,231,400, which, together with the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be finally accounted for as one fund, which fund shall be available for continuing or completing the con- struction of any project heretofore authorized or undertaken there- under, for acquisition or construction of temporary or emergency buildings and facilities at localities within or without the United States, needed by the Navy and specifically approved by the Secre- tary, including collateral public works items, projects for personal services (including group IV (b) personnel), and other expenses, and payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of scientists, technicists, and other personnel, at not to exceed $25 per diem. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1945 (Public Law 13), to enter into contracts for public-works equipment, materials, and con- struction, including collateral public-works items and the acquisition of land, in the amount of not to exceed $974,008,413 and without regard to the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes: Provided, That $986,000,000 of the foregoing appropriation and contractual author- ization shall apply exclusively to advance base construction, material, and equipment authorized in such Act approved March 1, 1945 (Public Law 13), and $1,500,000 for field house at United States Naval Acad- emy, Annapolis, Maryland, including acquisition of land and accessories, as authorized by law. No part of the appropriations or contract authorization in this Act under the Navy Department shall be used for a permanent type of Housing projects. 42 U. S. C. §§1501- 1505; Supp. IV, §i 1501-1505, 1521-1524 . Temporary build- ings and facilities. Contract authoriza- tions. Ante, p. 9. 41 U. S.C. 5. Advance base con- struction, etc. Field house, Naval Academy. Permanent type of construction, restro- tion.

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