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 61 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 356-JULY 30, 1947 SPECIAL RESEARCH FUND, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE For enabling the Secretary to carry into effect the Act approved June 29, 1935 (7 U. S . C . 427, 427b, 427c, 427f); for administration of the provisions of section 5 of the said Act, and for special research work, including the planning, programing, coordination, and print- ing the results of such research, to be conducted by such agencies of the Department as the Secretary may designate or establish, and to which he may make allotments from this fund, including personal services in the District of Columbia; $1,203,000, of which amount $785,200 shall be available for the maintenance and operation of research laboratories and facilities in the major agricultural regions provided for by section 4 of said Act. RESEARCH ON STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his responsibilities under section 7 (b) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of July 23, 1946, in connection with natural rubber, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $349,000; and there shall be transferred to the Secretary, from Gov- ernment surplus without compensation therefor, real property consist- ing of approximately one hundred and seventy-three acres known as the Spence tract, one hundred and thirty-one acres of the Guidotti tract, forty acres of the Arguelo tract, and twenty-five acres of the Alisal industrial site (all located in the vicinity of Salinas, Cali- fornia), including improvements and laboratory facilities and equip- ment thereon, and personal property, valued in all (procurement cost) at approximately $865,000. RESEARCH ON AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS OF ALASKA To enable the Secretary, through such officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture and the Territory of Alaska as he may designate, to establish and maintain a program for research into the basic agricultural needs and problems of the Territory of Alaska, $144,940, including printing and binding, the employment of personal services in the District of Columbia, and the construction or acquisition of necessary buildings and facilities without regard to restrictions of existing law. In carrying out such program the Secretary is authorized to use such authorities as have heretofore been made available by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska to the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Alaska, and by the laws of the United States, and to cooperate with the University of Alaska and with other public and private agencies. The provisions of this paragraph shall be effective from and after the date of the enactment hereof, until June 30, 1949, and the Secretary is authorized to take such steps and to issue such regulations as he may determine to effectuate the orderly discharge of his responsibilities hereunder. There are hereby trans- ferred to the Secretary the use of such equipment and other facilities, buildings, and grounds of the Territorial agricultural experiment sta- tion, including its branches, as he may determine to be necessary, other than any land in general use heretofore for other university purposes, and the Secretary may to the extent deemed advisable continue the employment of the existing personnel of the station. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the laws of the Territory of Alaska, there are hereby transferred for the use of the Secretary any unexpended balances now available, and any moneys hereafter received for credit thereto, of all funds heretofore appropriated by the legis- lature or acquired under authority of law for the construction, use, and 95347°-48 --pt. 1 --34 529 49 Stat. 436, 437. 7U. .C.§427d. 49 Stat. 437 . 7U.S.C. 427c. 60 Stat. 600 . 50U.S.C. 98f (b). Transfer of lands. Transfer of equip- ment and facilities. Transfer of funds.

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