57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 215 -JULY 12, 1943 Forest Service purposes, and unappropriated public forest lands, $100,000, which amount shall also be available for meeting obligations of the preceding fiscal year. Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the provi- sions of sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture through research in reforestation, timber growing, pro- tection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects", approved May 22, 1928, as amended (16 U. S. C. 581, 581a, 581f-581i), as follows: Forest management: Fire, silvicultural, and other forest investi- gations and experiments under said section 2, as amended, at forest experiment stations or elsewhere, $400,000. 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, $250,000. Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, $940,280. Forest survey: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, $140,000. Forest economics: Investigations in forest economics under section 10, $75,000. 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 produc- tivity, and for developing preventive and control measures therefor, $75,000. In all, salaries and expenses, $17,581,897; 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 80, 1914 (16 U. S . C. 498): Provided, That not to exceed $887,074 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. FOREsr-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 the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor", approved June 7, 1924, as amended (16 U. S. C . 564-570), 413 45 Stat. 699. 16U.S.C. I 81a. 16U.S.0. I581f. 16U. . C.. 581g. 16U.S.c. § 81h. 16 U. S. C. 5811. Total; additonal from contributions. 43 Stat. 112. 38 Stat. 430 43 Stat. AS .
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