PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 421 -JUNE 25, 1940 Range investiga- tions. 16U.S. . j 581f. Forest products. 1 U.S C .O 581g. Forest survey. 16U.8.C.§581h. Forest economics. 16U.S.c.§ 81i. Forest influenes. Total; additional from contributions. 43 Stat. 1132 . 38 Stat. 430.
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Personal servies. Contributions to designated organiza- tions. Cooperation with States, etc. 43 Stat. 63. Study of tax laws, etc. Personalservoes. Completion of Fed- eral undertaking. Forest-fire suppres sion, etc. eapopriation.
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Range investigations: Investigations and experiments to develop improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $270,935. Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or else- where, $632,500. Forest survey: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, $250,000. Forest economics: Investigations in forest economics under section 10, $140,000. Forest influences: For investigations and experiments at forest experiment stations or elsewhere for determining and demonstrating the influence of natural vegetative cover characteristic of forest, range, or other wild land on water conservation, flood control, stream-flow regulation, erosion, climate, and maintenance of soil productivity, and for developing preventive and control measures therefor, $135,000. In all, salaries and expenses, $14,353,435; and in addition thereto there are hereby appropriated all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work under the provisions of section 1 of the Act approved March 3, 1925 (16 U. S . C. 572), which funds shall be covered into the Treasury and constitute a part of the special funds provided by the Act of June 30, 1914 (16 U. S. C. 498): Provided, That not to exceed $859,319 may be expended for departmental per- sonal services in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,500 may be expended for the contribution of the United States to the cost of the office of the secretariat of the Inter- national Union of Forest Research Stations and of the Department of Timber Utilization of the Comite International du Bois. FOREST-FIRE COOPERATION For cooperation with the various States or other appropriate agen- cies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote continuous production of timber on lands chiefly valuable therefor", approved June 7, 1924, as amended (16 U. S . C . 564-570), including also the study of the effect of tax laws and the investiga- tion of timber insurance as provided in section 3 of said Act, $2,200,000, of which not to exceed $65,540 shall be available for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia and not to exceed $2,500 for the purchase of supplies and equipment required for the purposes of said Act in the District of Columbia. NEW ENGLAND HULKICANE DAMAGE For completion of the Federal undertaking: For reduction of the extreme forest-fire hazard, for intensification of forest-fire patrol and forest-fire suppression on State, county, municipal, and private forest lands in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, resulting from or made necessary by the New England hurricane of September 1938, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia, and elsewhere, printing and binding, purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles, and other necessary expenses, $300,000, together with any balance of the appro- priation "New England Hurricane Damage" contained in the First 548 [54 STAT.
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