PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 165, 172-APR. 4, 5, 1944 [58 STAT. nance facilities, $120,906,554; personnel training and housing facili- ties, $46,579,670; hospital facilities, $42,071,750; shore radio facilities, $4,060,000; Naval Research Laboratory, $1,593,550; miscellaneous structures, $24,360,000; advance base construction, material and cost vince and equipment, $1,019,000,000: Provided,That the approximate cost indi- ia cated for each of the classes of projects enumerated above may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be varied upward or downward, but the total cost shall not exceed $1,644,373,024: Pro- gngrfimenst vided further, That prior to the acquisition or disposal, by lease or posals. otherwise, of any land acquired for naval use under the authority of this, or any other Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall come into agreement with the Naval Affairs Committees of the Senate and of the House of Representatives with respect to the terms of such pro- spective acquisitions or disposals; and recital of compliance with this proviso in any instrument of conveyance by the Secretary of the Navy under authority of this or any other Act shall be conclusive evidence of the Secretary's compliance with this proviso as to the Temporaryhoilng. property conveyed: Provided further, That effective December 13, 1943, temporary housing is authorized for transient personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, with their dependents, on a rental basis, for periods not exceeding sixty days, without loss of rental allowance or money allowance for quarters. ppropriation an SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any Poi, pp. 11, 887. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose of this Act. Approved April 4, 1944. [CHAPTER 172] Aril5, 1944 IS. 1243] [Public Law 290] Synthetic liquid fuel demonstration plants. Construction and operation. i8e. Cooperation with Department of Agri- culture. Authority of 8eoe- tary of the Interior. Laboratorraarem etc. AN ACT Authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shales, agricultural and forestry products, and other substances, in order to aid the prosecution of the war, to conserve and increase the oil resources of the Nation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Mines, within the limits of critical materials available, is authorized for not more than five years to construct, maintain, and operate one or more demonstration plants to produce synthetic liquid fuels from coal, oil shale and other substances, and one or more demonstration plants to produce liquid fuels from agricultural and forestry products, with all facilities and accessories for the manufacture, purification, storage, and distribution of the products. The plants shall be of the minimum size which will allow the Government to furnish industry the necessary cost and engi- neering data for the development of a synthetic liquid-fuel industry and of such size that the combined product of al the plants con- structed in accordance with this Act will not constitute a commer- cially significant amount of the total national commercial sale and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products. Any activities under this Act relating to the production of liquid fuels from agri- cultural and forestry products shall be carried out in cooperation with the Department of griculture and subject to the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. SEc. 2. In order to carry out the purpose of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized- (a) to conduct laboratory research and development work, and with pilot plants and semiworks plants to make careful process engineering studies along with structural engineering studies in
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