PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 296-JUNE 28,1944 Equipment rentals. BStat. 18 Availability of funds for designated agencies. Experiments investigations. and Cost of buildings. ing housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, and for disseminating useful information on this subject, $806,630. BELTSVILLE RESEARCH CENTER For general administrative purposes, including maintenance, opera- tion, construction or alteration of necessary buildings at a cost of not to exceed $7,500, repairs, and other expenses, $130,760: Provided, That the appropriation current at the time services are rendered may be reimbursed (by advance credits or reimbursements based on esti- mated or actual charges) from applicable appropriations, to cover the charges, including handling and other related services, for equipment rentals (including depreciation, maintenance, and repairs); for services supplies, equipment and materials furnished, stores of which may be maintained at the Center, and for building construction, alteration, and repair performed by the Center in carry- ing out the purposes of such applicable appropriations and the applicable appropriations may also be charged their proportionate share of the necessary general expenses of the Center not covered by this appropriation. WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST CONTROL For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act for forest protection against the white pine blister rust", approved April 26, 1940 (16 U. S . C . 594a), and in accordance with the provisions thereof including the employ- ment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $2,264,026; of which amount $203,173 shall be available to the Depart- ment of the Interior for control of white pine blister rust on or endangering Federal lands under the jurisdiction of that Department or lands of Indian tribes which are under the jurisdiction of or retained under restrictions of the United States; $1,219,900 of said amount to the Forest Service for the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering lands under its jurisdiction; and $840,953 of said amount to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for leadership and general coordination of the entire program, method development, and for operations conducted under its direc- tion for such control, including, but not confined to, cooperation with individual States, local authorities and private agencies in the control of white pine blister rust on or endangering State and privately owned lands. FOREST SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the employment of persons and means in the District of Colum- bia and elsewhere, including not to exceed $951,611 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, and to enable the Sec- retary to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; 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, suit- able trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Pro- tided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as 442 [58 STAT.
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