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PUBLIC LAW 166-JULY 28, 1953

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thereto as may be necessary pursuant to the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U.S.C. 151-167), including the purchase (not to exceed one for emergency replacement only) and operation and maintenance of airplanes, and construction and alteration of necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of constructing or altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500, as follows: Forest Pest Control Act: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved June 25, 1947 (16 U.S.C. Supp. V, 594-1-594-5), $2,300,000, of which $1,900,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, for the purposes oi said Act to the extent necessary under the then existing conditions. White pine blister rust: White pine blister rust, pursuant to the Act of April 26, 1940 (16 U.S.C. 594a), $3,000,000, of which $460,000 shall be available to the Department of the Interior for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering Federal lands under the jurisdiction of that Department or lands of Indian tribes which are under the jurisdiction of or retained under restrictions of the United States; $1,590,000 to the Forest Service for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering lands under its jurisdiction; and $950,000 to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for leadership and general coordination of the entire program, method development, and for operations conducted under its direction for such control, including, but not confined to, the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering State and privately owned lands.

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FOREST SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary, including not to exceed $15,000 for employ/ ment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act s8 Stat. 742. of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); to experiment and make investiga- ExpeKmlnta'i lotions and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumber- vestigations. ing, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods, for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, in|^s°°* °^ buUdThat the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water-supply or sanitary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be erected, shall not exceed $18,500 ($22,500 in Alaska) with the exception that any building erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $18,500 or more, may be improved out of the appropriations made under this Act for the Forest Service by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the cost of such building; to pi-otect, administer, and Protection, etc.,

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of national forests.

improve the national forests, including tree planting and other measures to prevent erosion, drift, surface wash, soil waste, and the formation of floods, and to conserve water; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national forests, to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the national forests or the waters therein; to collate, digest, report, and illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service: Provided fur- of^c°af°"' **'^" ther, That the appropriations available to the Forest Service for the current fiscal year may be used for the operation and maintenance

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