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 PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 543 -JUNE 19, 1948 49 Stat. 163. Cost of buildings. Construction on land not owned by Government. Central State agen- cy, Mo. Everglades region, Fla. Demonstration projects. 50 Stat. 525 . 50 Stat. 532. 7 U.S.. 1011note. SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a-590f), which provides for a national program of erosion control and soil and water conservation, including not to exceed $856,750 for personal services in the District of Columbia, furnishing of subsistence to employees, operation and maintenance of aircraft, and the purchase and erection or alteration of permanent buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of construc- ing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500 except where buildings are acquired in conjunction with land being purchased for other purposes and except for eight buildings to be constructed at a cost not to exceed $15,000 per building: Providedfurther,That no money appropriated in this Act shall be available for the construction of any such building on land not owned by the Government: Provided further, That in the State of Missouri where the State has established a central State agency authorized to enter into agreements with the United States or any of its agencies on policies and general programs for the saving of its soil by the extension of Federal aid to any soil conservation district in such State, the agreements made by or on behalf of the United States with any such soil conservation district shall have the prior approval of such central State agency before they shall become effective as to such district, as follows: Soil conservation research: For research and investigations into the character, cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion, soil and mois- ture depletion and methods of soil and water conservation (including the construction and hydrologic phases of farm irrigation and land drainage, and water regulation to conserve the soil and reduce fire hazards in the Everglades region of Florida, except that expenditures for all work in the Everglades region shall be limited to a sum not in excess of funds made available for such work by the State of Flor- ida, or political subdivisions thereof) ; and for construction, operation, and maintenance of experimental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations, $1,548,000. Soil conservation operations: For carrying out preventive measures to conserve soil and water, including such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and the siltation of reservoirs, and includ- ing the improvement of farm irrigation and land drainage, the estab- lishment and operation of conservation nurseries, the making of con- servation plans and surveys, and the dissemination of information, $43,500,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation may be expended for soil and water conservation operations in demonstration projects. LAND UTILIZATION AND RETIREMENT OF SUBMARGINAL LAND For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (7 1. S. C. 1010-1012), and the provisions of the Act approved August 11, 1945 (Public Law 179, Seventy-ninth Congress), including not to exceed $29,100 for pesonal services in the District of Columbia, $1,125,000. 524 [62 STAT.

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