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PUBLIC LAW 5 7 3 - J U N E 13, 1956

may be credited to the appropriation current at the time such reimbursements are received. SEC. 104. Appropriations made to the Department of the Interior in this title or in the Public Works Appropriation Act, 1957, shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), when authorized by the Secretary, at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals, and in total amount not to exceed $250,000; maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of reprints; payment for telephone service in private residences in the field, when authorized under regulations approved by the Secretary; and the payment of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members. SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department of the Interior for salaries and expenses shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (68 Stat. 1114, 69 Stat. 49, and D. C. Code 4-204).

60 Stat. 810.

5 USC 2131 note. 43 Stat. 175.

TITLE II—RELATED AGENCIES COMMISSION or F I N E ARTS SALARIES A N D EXPENSES

For expenses made necessary by the Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts (40 U. S, C. 104), including payment of actual traveling expenses of the members and secretary of the Commission in attending meetings and committee meetings of the Commission either within or outside the District of Columbia, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Commission, $31,000.

36 Stat. 371.

FEDERAL COAL M I N E SAFETY BOARD OF REVIEW

Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), $70,000.

eo Stat. sio.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE — S A L A R I E S AND

EXPENSES

For expenses necessary, including not to exceed $15,000 for employment 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 of August 2, 1946 (5 IT, S. C. 55a), including travel expenses of advisory councils or similar groups; to experiment and make investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, forest insects and diseases, and lumbering; 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 protect, administer, and 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; for management of lands acquired

58 Stat. 742. 60 Stat. 810.

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