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 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 400 -JUNE 3, 1948 rates to be fixed by the Director of the Census without regard to the Classification Act; tabulating cards and continuous form tabulating paper; $725,000. CIVIL AERONAUTICS ADMINISTRATION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Civil Aero- nautics Administration in carrying out the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S . C . 401), and other Acts incident to the enforcement of safety regulations; maintenance and operation of air navigation facilities and air traffic control; furnish- ing advisory service to States and other public and private agencies in connection with the construction or improvement of airports and landing areas; and the disposal of surplus airports; including per- sonal services in the District of Columbia; hire of aircraft (not exceed- ing $395,000); the operation and maintenance of two hundred and twenty-six aircraft, but not more than eighty-five Government-owned aircraft shall be maintained or operated by the Civil Aeronautics Administration after September 30, 1948; contract stenographic reporting services; fees and mileage of expert and other witnesses; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; purchase (not to exceed one hundred and fifty) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase and repair of skis and snowshoes; and salaries and traveling expenses of employees detailed to attend courses of training conducted by the Government or other organizations serving aviation; $82,451,000, and the Departments of the Air Force, Army and Navy, are authorized to transfer to the Civil Aeronautics Administration without charge aircraft engines, parts, flight equipment, and hangar, line, and shop equipment surplus to the needs of such Departments: Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, and other public authorities for expenses incurred in the maintenance and operation of airport traffic control towers: Providedfurther, That the War Assets Administrator, acting for and on behalf of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, is authorized and directed to transfer to the United States without reimbursement or transfer of funds, legal title to a certain tract of land and improvements thereon at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, covered by lease dated January 1, 1947, between the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration and heretofore designated by that Corporation as Plancor 890 and declared surplus to the needs of that Corporation, and to transfer such property to the control and jurisdiction of the Federal Works Agency (Public Buildings Administration): Providedfurther, That the Civil Aeronautics Administration is authorized to transfer to the Departments of the Air Force, Army and Navy, without charge, air- craft, aircraft engines, parts, flight equipment and hangar line and shop equipment. Establishment of air-navigation facilities: For the acquisition and establishment by contract or purchase and hire of air-navigation facil- ities, including the equipment of additional civil airways for day and night flying; the construction of additional necessary lighting, radio, and other signaling and communicating structures and apparatus; the alteration and modernization of existing air-navigation facilities; the acquisition of the necessary sites by lease or grant; the construction and furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and employees of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Weather Bureau stationed at remote localities not on foreign soil where such accommodations are not otherwise available; personal services in the District of Columbia; and purchase (not to exceed fifteen) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $10,099,000, and, in 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.S.O. § §661-674. Post, pp. 324, 1039. 52 Stat. 973. 49U.S.C.§ 401et seq.; Supp. I,§ 421 et seq. Post, pp. 470, 493, 1093, 1216 . Operation and maintenance of air- craft. Motor vehicles. Transfer of aircraft, etc. Crediting of funds from States, etc. Transfer of surplus property. Transfer of aircraft, etc. 62 STAT.] 323

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