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[55 STAT. Ante,p .76. of the Defense Highway Act of 1941 (Public Law 295) and for reimbursement of and transfer to the appropriation for Public Works, Ante, p. 163. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, not to exceed $400,000, on account of expenditures from said appropriation for the purposes hereof, $74,600,000, to remain available during the continuance of the 6 F. R. 2617. emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941; and in addi- tion thereto authority is granted, during the continuance of such emergency, to enter into contracts for the above purposes in amounts not to exceed in the aggregate $50,000,000. Flight strips: For studies in connection with and the construction of flight strips as described in and in accordance with the provisions Ante, p. 767. of section 8 of the Defense Highway Act of 1941 (Public Law 295), $5,000,000, to remain available during the continuance of the emer- gency declared by the President on May 27, 1941. Ante, p. 114. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITEE FOR AERONAUTICS Contracts. Airplane Engine Research Laboratory: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is hereby authorized to enter into con- tracts in connection with the construction of the airplane engine research laboratory at Cleveland, Ohio, upon a cost-plus-a -fixed-fee basis in accordance with section 4 of the Act of April 25, 1939 (53 Fixed fee. Stat. 591), except that (1) the fixed fee to be paid hereunder shall not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost of such contracts, Delegation of func- exclusive of the fee, and (2) for the purposes hereof the functions tions. vested in the Secretary of the Navy by said section are hereby vested in the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, The National Archives, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this heading in the Ante, p. 116 . Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1942, $73,500. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Ante, p. 495. Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, National Labor Relations Board, fiscal year 1942, $57,300. Salaries and expenses (national defense): For all expenses neces- sary to enable the National Labor Relations Board to perform the duties imposed upon it by law or in pursuance of law in connection with disputes involving labor in industries under the national-defense program, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and other items otherwise properly chargeable to appropri- ations of the National Labor Relations Board for miscellaneous expenses and printing and binding, fiscal year 1942, $365,000. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHOPITY Ante, p. 119. Tennessee Valley Authority fund: For an additional amount for the Project near Fon- Tennessee Valley Authority fund, fiscal year 1942, for (1) beginning tana, construction of an hydroelectric project on the Little Tennessee River Additional units. near Fontana, North Carolina, (2) installing additional electric gener- ating units with a total rated capacity of approximately three hundred and twenty-four thousand kilowatts in existing hydroelectric projects owned by the Authority, (3) installing an additional steam electric generating unit with a rated capacity of approximately sixty thousand watts Bar steam kilowatts in the Watts Bar steam plant and for developing units of plant. other steam plants to their complete capacity as provided in the origi- Transmission facii- nal plans of installation, (4) purchase or building of transmission facilities needed to connect this project and these units to the existing PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 591-DEC. 17, 1941 822