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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 680 -OCT. 12, 1949 work or for furnishing materials, supplies, equipment, or services of any kind in connection with such work. Appropriations available to the National Park Service shall be available for the purchase (not to exceed thirty-seven for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary in conducting investigations and carrying out the work of the Service, including cooperation with Federal, State, county, or other agencies or with farm bureaus, organizations, or individuals, as follows: General administrative expenses: For general administrative pur- poses, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $287,000. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, including the erection of necessary buildings and other structures; propagation and distribution of food fishes and fresh-water mussels; development, recommendation, and application of means, including the construction of devices, to assure natural propagation and maximum survival of hatchery and other fishes; purchase, collection, and trans- portation of specimens and other expenses incidental to the mainte- nance and operation of aquaria, $2,696,500, including not to exceed $59,500 for continuing the construction of fish cultural facilities on lands owned by the State of South Dakota, and including not to exceed $66,000 for repair of flood damage and rehabilitation of fish cultural facilities at Warm Springs, Georgia. Investigations respecting food fishes: For investigations and studies into the cause of the decrease of food fishes, and other aquatic and plant resources, in connection therewith, and of means of securing a maximum sustained yield from such resources, including not to exceed $276,000 to carry out the provisions of the joint resolution of August 8, 1946, Public Law 672, as amended by section 3 of the Act of August 18, 1949, Public Law 249; the design, development, testing and improvement of fish protective devices, including screens and fish- ways, and determining the requirements for fishways and other fish protective devices at dams constructed under licenses issued by the Federal Power Commission; maintenance, repair, improvement, equipment, and operation of fishery-experiment and biological sta- tions; the construction of salmon-counting weirs, and the improvement of salmon-spawning streams in Alaska; $1,546,000, and in addition, the Secretary is authorized to incur obligations and enter into con- tracts for additional work, materials, and equipment in an amount not exceeding a total of $50,000. Commercial fisheries: For collection and compilation of fishery statistics and related information; conducting investigations and studies of methods and means of capture, preservation, utilization, and distribution of fish and aquatic plants and products thereof, including investigation, study and research with respect to the utiliza- tion of packed sardines and the development of methods and proce- dures which should be employed in improving the quality and appear- ance of packed sardines; maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, and operation of laboratories and vessels; and enforcing the applicable provisions of the Act authorizing associations of pro- ducers of aquatic products (15 U. S. C . 521); including contract stenographic reporting services, $510,000. Investigation, exploration, and development of Pacific fisheries: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of Potd, p. 981. Post, p. 981. 60 Stat. 930. 16 U.. C.O. 921- 923. Ante, p. 616. Poet, p. 981. Packed sardines. 48 Stat. 1213. 795 Vehicles. Post, p. 981.

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